The single easiest improvements you can make to the usability of HTML Forms is to correctly use LABELs. And it helps all users, not just a subset. Its also a nice application of Fitt’s Law s Use the label element to make your HTML forms accessible | 456 Berea Street When checkboxes and radio buttons […]
We’re guilty of using guesses/gut feelings when putting a site together. Nielsen reminds us that even a few data points can help make better design decisions. Guesses vs. Data as Basis for Design Recommendations (Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox) The general guideline is to use relative font sizes that let users resize (if they know how), but
Good to see someone is finally asking their users to upgrade to IE6. I hope more websites start ignoring support for IE6 soon, since its such a headache to cater to. Of course, each will have to make its own cost-benefit decision, but we’re pretty close to the point that for most sites, supporting IE6
37signals lists 7 good reasons to avoid using Photoshop to create mockups for web sites or applications. I’ve found this practice utterly annoying for all the reasons that they mention but I don’t see it going away soon. Sadly most “web designers”, yes-that’s an intentional set of quotes, are much more fluent in creating Photoshop
From reading "Design doing": Speaking personally, all of my favourite web designers have one thing in common: they know how to write HTML and CSS I’m still surprised by how little HTML + CSS many "web" designers actually know.
Shockingly, Web Designers should know how to design for the web, not just for Photoshop. Its a point that was driven home during my recent trip to California for Forum One’s (my employer) Online Community Summit. While I may not have done a comprehensive survey, I visited another web company there, and also met a
Some people like fully justified text. I guess it brings another layer of perceived order to an otherwise chaotic universe. If you choose to implement it on a web page, be warned that legibility suffers due to the crude justification algorithms implemented in browsers. But even with sophisticated page layout software, justified text blocks often
Now that we’re starting to get some benefits from maturing HTML, CSS, and Javascript implementations, via libraries like Prototype, Scriptaculous, Jquery, mootools, and so on, along come the vendors hawking their own proprietary re-invention of the same thing. Wheter its Adobe’s Flash/Apollo/Flex, Microsofts’s recently demo’d Silverlight, or Sun’s rumoured own re-imagining of it all. But
Sandy found this gem, which probably applies to more professions than just Web Designers. Working with clients such as these can be really trying, but what can you do to get through it? If Architects Had to Work Like Web Desginers… Please design and build me a house. I am not quite sure of what