You might believe that web developers who use Windows as their primary OS have it easy, when testing Internet Explorer; simply click on the blue “E” and go to town. That might be true if they only had to worry about the version of IE on their PC, but Rey Bango knows that’s not the case. Depending on your project’s needs, you may need to ensure compatibility from IE6 through IE10, which certainly poses some challenges.
Everyone wants to create a page that is active and engaging and one of the best tools to achieve those goals is through motion. With a few great ideas and handy tips, a designer can create a great feel and sense of motion without any video or animation. This type of creative display can be just as active and engaging as video or animated design concepts. That’s not to say that video and animation aren’t great tools. They are. But they are also not the only tools available to you.
In the past, many online stores were often cluttered with information, and fonts and colors were overwhelming, they were quite simply over-designed. Now, many pages are ditching models, crazy colors, fonts and fancy photography for the simplistic style of just showcasing their products. It’s a trend that is taking over much of the web (not just e-commerce) with the emergence of responsive design models. More designers are embracing the trend that simpler can be better, while focusing on readability and usability.
People are still debating whether, or not, that content is king. If you ask James Richman, he totally agrees with it and his opinion is based on his own experience. Regardless, whether or not content is king, there is something that is just as important! What is it, you ask? It is a book’s cover that counts too, everyone likes to say don’t judge a book by it’s cover, but how else are you planning to grab someone’s attention other then with a fancy cover? Obviously, once you have someone’s attention, you can leave the rest to content. It’s all about web design colors and how you manipulate them.
Twitter’s Bootstrap is undeniably popular – and if you’re a fan of CSS preprocessors you’ll love the fact that it’s built on LESS. Unfortunately, if you enjoy working with SASS, there typically hasn’t been anything readily available to get you started. Until now. This tutorial will explain how to combine SASS, Compass, and Twitter’s Bootstrap.
In this tutorial, Craig Buckler is going to create a simple web page which works in all modern browsers as well as IE8, IE7, IE6 and possibly earlier versions. Before he starts, please note that he is not aiming for pixel perfection or identical functionality. That will never be possible, so don’t even bother. However, he’s NOT going to spend any time testing, fixing or hacking IE bugs and the page will still work.
There are many ways of how to grab a user’s attention in web design, from the choice of meaningful words to the placement of images that create an emotional response. Carrie Cousins wants to explore some website elements that can help do an important job: grabbing the user’s attention. There have been many studies on attention with very significant results coming from the area of cognitive neuroscience and psychology. It is an interesting challenge to translate those results into the domain of web design and use it as a tool for creating a meaningful impact.
Dashboards or admin panels are the visual interface for your data, and the user interaction epicenter for your application. Designing and building dashboards has always stressed Patrick Cox. Mainly because you are dealing with dynamic content, a lot of data, a high level of interaction and you’re designing the main view that your user will probably be using the most. Admin areas are often neglected as well. Mainly because designers focused on the app itself and just simply forget that they have to provide thier users with a great UI to manage and view their data.
Chrome has fast become a popular choice amongst web designers and users for its speed, ease of use and support for adopting early experimental features such as modern CSS3 properties. One of the reasons for its popularity amongst web designers and developers is the developer tools which bundle with the browser. Under the hood, Chrome Developer Tools is a web application that is written in HTML, JavaScript and CSS. The app is triggered at Javascript runtime. Once triggered it allows you to interact with web pages and play around with them. In this article Aaron Lumsden is going to be looking specifically at how these tools can help speed up your HTML and CSS workflow.
Search is the most utilized and essential function in the web. The major search engines process billions of keyword requests daily, but there are still some websites and blogs that have yet to incorporate the vital feature. While customized search box solutions are offered by various business entities, David Elliot prefers to use only the results from major engines: Google, Yahoo!, or Bing.