Best of the 2008 HighEdWeb conference is available in audio online.
Some of the topics are 'Campus Web Redesigns', 'Accessible Video' and 'Using Analytics to Understand Your Audience'.
January 2009 Archives
About typography for Web and strategies for CSS image replacement:
" ... things have significantly changed over the last couple of years. ‘Bad’ browsers are phasing out (albeit slowly), handing over control to the designers by means of CSS. Which doesn’t mean total control, though. Especially when (enviously) looking at the area of print, there is one facet in particular we would love to be able to borrow: typography in all its glory."
One of my favorite vintage design resources, Retrolounge, has links to numerous retro design, photograph and ephemera sites. Lots of fun to browse some of these ... and handy when you need ideas for a project that incorporates vintage type or styles.
Jared Spool writes about how Changing a Button Increased a Site's Annual Revenues by $300 Million
"It's hard to imagine a form that could be simpler: two fields, two buttons, and one link. Yet, it turns out this form was preventing customers from purchasing products from a major e-commerce site, to the tune of $300,000,000 a year. What was even worse: the designers of the site had no clue there was even a problem."
CSS3 specifications are still in development ... but why wait to learn about them? Web browsers like Mozilla Firefox, Opera, and WebKit-based browsers already have full or partial support for CSS3, so now is the time to experiment.
To help you get started, the Six Revisions site has pulled together 20 excellent resources on the topic of CSS3.
Thoughts from designer Jason Santa Maria:
"Without the print edition to serve as the flagship product, the website will no longer be a second class citizen or a quaint add-on to a business model; it will become the business model ... The medium of print will not die, but its spot atop the mountain of mainstream content distribution is in its final days. This could bring about a rebirth of design innovation online. "
http://jasonsantamaria.com/articles/the-death-throes-of-print/
Need a slideshow solution? List is separated in 3 big categories like Ajax, JavaScript and Lightbox based galleries, CSS based galleries and Flash based galleries:
www.1stwebdesigner.com/resources/57-free-image-gallery-slideshow-and-lightbox-solutions/
What are the design trends for '09? Smashing Magazine pulls together some examples of what designers are doing lately:
Even More Web Design Trends for 2009 »
Reid Hastie writes in the NY Times about effective meeting strategies and why they are valuable skills:
"The main reason we don’t make meetings more productive is that we don’t value our time properly. The people who call meetings and those who attend them are not thinking about time as their most valuable resource ... Time is the most perishable good in the world, and it is not replenishable. You can’t earn an extra hour to use on a busy day."
Read about his meeting strategies here »
Here is an easy to use link checker extension for the Firefox browser:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/532
Once installed, you can use this to scan a Web page and clearly denote what is or isn't a valid link. Nice!
At mStoner.com there's an interesting interview about the 2008 William & Mary site redesign. Take a look:
Proust Questionnaire: Susan Evans, College of William & Mary
