Thursday, October 13th, 2005
I browse a lot of websites. I mean a whole lot. Over the past few weeks I’ve really been thinking about user interaction. What things are good, easy, and will keep a user on your site for a while, and what things are bad, difficult and will make your user leave and tell all their friends they hate your website.
Those things are typically small details, the kind that make people either love you or hate you. Below I’ve outlined 7 [...]
Wednesday, October 12th, 2005
The $100 question. Tables, or tableless CSS design? It seems like a catch-phrase, the new big kitsch thing, but creating a website without the use of Tables for the structural markup can make a big difference in the usability and even the search viability of your site.
The bulk of the Ariamedia site was built without the aid of tables. It is structured 100% through CSS styled DIVs, H1s, Ps, and the like.
When we started to develop the idea for the [...]
Monday, October 3rd, 2005
For those users who are color blind, surfing the web can be a hassle. Being able to tell what text is a link, and what’s not can determine the longevity of a visit. There have been a multitude of articles on developing and testing your website to ensure a color blind user will be able to distinguish the various elements of your site.
I came across a nifty little Mac App by Michel Fortin that allows you to take a look [...]
