"Prepare to be overwhelmed by an onslaught of new browser releases in the coming months as Microsoft, Mozilla, Apple, Opera Software, and Google all vie to provide your vehicle for navigating the web."
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From A List Apart:
"Despite the ubiquity of reading on the web, readers remain a neglected audience. Much of our talk about web design revolves around a sense of movement: users are thought to be finding, searching, skimming, looking. We measure how frequently they click but not how long they stay on the page ... Readers flourish when they have space—some distance from the hubbub of the crowds—and as web designers, there is yet much we can do to help them carve out that space."
From Noupe.com:
"Whether you’d like diagramming application, create vector images, format or optimize CSS code, generate patterns- you can use dozens of tools to make your life easier."
Great list of tools. Take a look here »
File this under 'could be handy someday'. JS Charts is a free tool for making pie charts, bar graphs and other visual representations of data.
Ever tried to create your own CSS graph? If you have, you will know how hard it is. Using Flash is one way to go, but you just can’t beat a beautifully crafted CSS Graph. Have a look at these tutorials and techniques.
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'.
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."
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."
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 »
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
At Smashing Magazine:
"This post provides you with a large collection of resources for working with Movable Type, whether you’re just getting started or have plenty of experience. We’ll feature some official resources, such as documentation, as well as plenty of tutorials, sources of inspiration, the best places to find plug-ins, resources for working with templates and styles and more."
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/12/08/movable-type-developers-toolbox/
From alistapart.com:
"If we want our customers to embrace IA, we must help them understand why we need it. IA is about selling ideas effectively, designing with accuracy, and working with complex interactivity to guide different personas (potential customers) through website experiences."
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/flexiblefueleducatingtheclientonia
Another article on SEO from Redswish.com:
"Search engines pay a lot of attention to links – both internal and external. As internal links are those that can be controlled by you, make sure your website internal linking is proper structured and filled with relevant descriptive keywords. A plain anchor text like ‘click here’ and ‘read more’ are not clever; ‘click here for more Jordan shoes’ and ‘read more about ballet shoes’ are."
http://www.redswish.co.uk/10-seo-elements-all-websites-should-have/
