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19 Websites to Promote your Design News

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 18:16:25 GMT

For any blogger, increase his website traffic is one of the primary objective. I'll explain how I proceed to promote my design News around the web.

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Don’t Hide That Website Wireframe! 5 Reasons Why Wireframes Are Critical to Your Site’s Success

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 16:15:13 GMT

Wireframes are absolutely vital to a website or web application's success and they deserve as much time in the spotlight as the flashier cousin, graphic design.

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Understanding the Mentality of Your Visitors

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 03:14:10 GMT

A look at the importance of analyzing your visitors and their reasons for being on your site.

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Web of Trust (WOT) - Adaptive Technology for Colorblind Users

Tue, 27 May 2008 06:38:27 GMT

Web of Trust, a browser security tool that relies on traffic light colors, has released a Colorblind Accessible version. Everything from color schemes to rating icons to the symbol language was designed to meet the optimal needs of the colorblind.

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What Makes Someone Leave Your Website?

Thu, 15 May 2008 06:08:03 GMT

Understanding the reasons why visitors would leave can make it possible for you to keep them on your site.

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5 Tips for Agile and Effective Usability Testing | On the Rise

Tue, 06 May 2008 17:06:30 GMT

You've spent months developing your website, researching your core user base and their needs and wants, but if you don't conduct usability testing you may be wasting your chance at success. Here are 5 quick tips on how to conduct agile and effective

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6 Places that Flash Does Not Belong

Tue, 06 May 2008 12:29:09 GMT

When flash is more of a detriment and a liability...

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7 Ways to Show Your Visitors that You Don’t Care

Fri, 02 May 2008 21:56:15 GMT

If you're not interested in your website's visitors, here are 7 things you can do to make this clear to them.

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7 Incredibly Useful Tools for Evaluating a Web Design

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 16:38:47 GMT

If you're interested in analyzing and optimizing your page layout - here's some extremely useful tools that you can use to help.

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The Benefits of Mixing Branding and Usability in a Design

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 16:33:12 GMT

Making a website memorable is not an easy task, competitors are everywhere and everybody wants users to remember their brand. That's the most logical reason why every website would need a brand with its proper logo. But that's not the only reason.

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ifoh designs » How to deal with spam

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 20:33:48 GMT

There are many options to help fight spam, but which ones are worth your time?

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Improving Navigation In 5 Simple Steps

Mon, 31 Mar 2008 16:00:56 GMT

Navigation is one of the most important elements of website usability. A good navigational structure can make visits much more pleasant for your users, and poor navigational structure can cause them to leave in frustration.

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A List Apart: Articles: Sign Up Forms Must Die

Sat, 29 Mar 2008 02:25:57 GMT

An excerpt from Luke Wroblewskiâ€™s forthcoming book Web Form Design: Filling in the Blanks. Discusses the negative aspects of website sign-up forms.

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Finding Your Keywords For SEO | Pure Ink Creative

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 20:49:49 GMT

Finding keywords for your site can be a long, laborious but pretty straightforward process depending on what your site offers...

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Better blog design through redesigning a sidebar

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 04:27:39 GMT

It is my belief that no design is ever complete, it is even more true with blog designs. I believe that it is a continual process of improvement that we must invest our energy into, especially if our desire is to maximize the return we get on a blog

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Information Architecture 101 - Xemion Web Design Blog

Sun, 23 Mar 2008 11:31:00 GMT

Information architecture is the art of organizing information on a website in a way in which it is easily found. That's the one sentence version, anyhow.

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Web 3.0: Are We There Yet?

Sun, 23 Mar 2008 11:30:57 GMT

Could it be argued that we are already at Web 3.0?

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10 Websites That use JavaScript Animation Effectively!!

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 00:40:57 GMT

Have a look at the10 Sample Websites below which use JavaScript animations minimally and effectively

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The Secret of Great Blog Designs

Thu, 13 Mar 2008 08:11:16 GMT

What is the purpose of a blog design? There are no blog designs that don t have any effect on its blog, its message, and its goals. A blog design is either helping you move forward with your blog or it is not only hindering you from moving forward,

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8 Tips For Better Link Design

Mon, 03 Mar 2008 14:45:37 GMT

Links are the most common thing on the internet, thatâ€™s what the whole web is about. Although we use them every single day there are a lot of implementation techniques to keep in mind to improve usability.

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Vitamin Features Â» Product pages: so much suck, so easy to fix

Mon, 03 Mar 2008 11:52:07 GMT

Amy Hoy covers a lot in this article â€" from James Joyce and upchucking, to Firefox, telepathy, and Opera. Through it all she shows you how see through the eyes of a user and an experience designer, and how to use that viewpoint to improve your site.

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Good Web Content | Pure Ink Creative

Thu, 28 Feb 2008 15:40:54 GMT

Is your website content any good? If visitors just aren't converting then it maybe time for a copy overhaul. Good web content means your message is appropriate to its purpose and audience.

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Navigation Menus: Trends and Examples

Wed, 27 Feb 2008 19:23:33 GMT

This article presents recent trends, examples and innovative solutions for design of modern navigation menus.

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4 Must Have Firefoxâ€™s Extensions for Website Designer | Firewalker

Tue, 19 Feb 2008 18:39:14 GMT

Firefox extensions for website designer

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StylizedWeb.com - 30 Best Firefox add-ons

Fri, 08 Feb 2008 08:46:17 GMT

list of 30 best handpicked Firefox add-ons, very useful for web designers and developers

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Better User Experience With Meaningful Errors Messages

Sat, 19 Jan 2008 19:02:00 GMT

Giving users meaningful error messages is very important but, maybe, even more important to improve the user experience is to provide a solution to the error that is rising the error message.

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Ã‚Â» Solutioneering, a Problem Enhanced by Tech Specialists?

Sun, 13 Jan 2008 11:51:52 GMT

This article discusses how some tech specialists often help perpetuate what has been labeled "Solutioneering" by the Blue Flavor Blog.

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19 Things NOT To Do When Building a Website

Sun, 13 Jan 2008 00:59:35 GMT

How to know it's time to fire your web designer.

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Sign Up Process Designs Review. Design vs Art Blog

Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:12:00 GMT

The importance of a well designed sign up process is huge, if your website does not make it easy visitors will not register. Don't ask for unnecessary information, make the from short, you can always encourage users to give you more details once the

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Horrible Login Process at 9rules. Design vs Art Blog

Fri, 04 Jan 2008 13:12:20 GMT

Login process should be extremely easy as this is they way users will get into the personalized content of your website. Many users get tired and leave if they try to login a few times and they can not get into the website.

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Buttons That Indicate Actions - Design vs Art Blog

Wed, 02 Jan 2008 00:11:02 GMT

Using buttons when designing a website could be a better solution to indicate actions. On the other side links usually tell users that they will be taken to another page.

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Search Results Page Design - Design vs Art Blog

Mon, 31 Dec 2007 12:51:47 GMT

Searching for products in your website, users could make many mistakes. Your website search engine should not only accept exact matches but also misspelled words.

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Blog Comment Solutions - Design vs Art Blog

Fri, 28 Dec 2007 22:48:16 GMT

Encouraging users to give you feedback is not that easy, if you are designing a blog you should make the posting procedure as simple as possible.

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Write Better: Online Readability Testing Tools Compared

Fri, 28 Dec 2007 09:35:29 GMT

A comparison of 12 online tools for testing content readability. Includes readability analysis of sample text for each tool.

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Simple Auto-Complete For Forms

Fri, 28 Dec 2007 00:53:32 GMT

Auto-completing makes inputting experience easier & faster for the user. On the other hand it is very helpful for the standardization of content, keywords, tags, etc. It may prevent a user wrongly writing Mcrsoft rather than Microsoft for example.

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Three Unforgivable Usability Sins

Thu, 27 Dec 2007 13:28:50 GMT

It's hateful when a developer takes a "shortcut" that saves that individual a couple of minutes, but thereafter causes extra effort from every single user. Awful as they are, these application design errors — all the fault of lazy developers &

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Login Input Box Into the Homepage - Design vs Art Blog

Sun, 23 Dec 2007 14:21:55 GMT

Make your login input box or link visible, usually users look for it on the top right corner of the website

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50+ Amazing Jquery Examples- Part1

Thu, 20 Dec 2007 18:36:24 GMT

A list of 50+ uses for the Jquery framework. A great list of scripts and effects that may be helpful in any project.

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Bad Color Contrast, Analysis of New ReadWriteWeb Design - Design vs Art

Tue, 18 Dec 2007 17:44:12 GMT

Designing for the people with color disabilities is actually designing to everybody, better color contrast will be preferred by all your users.

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47+ Excellent Ajax CSS Forms

Sat, 15 Dec 2007 21:45:49 GMT

This is a blog listing over 47 references of different Ajax CSS forms. Very helpful for beginner and advanced Ajax developers.

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