01.05.08
Matt
The footer, as if to warrant its physical position in life, can often be left until last during the design process, like some sort of digital outcast. To the contrary, the footer deserves so much more attention than that. It can often be the next port of call in the event of a site’s navigation lacking a link that a user feels should be there (most commonly, this is a link to contact details). It can reinforce a brand, offer up exciting tools and just simply finish of a page in an aesthetic way. Read the rest of this entry »
Design, Web
05.03.08
Jamie
Web Directions North 08 wrapped up a few weeks ago and I have finally found time to write up my notes. As with dConstruct 2007, all of the speakers were excellent and although I didn’t get to see all of the presentations, here are my notes on most of them. Read the rest of this entry »
Design, Dusted, Technology, Web
01.11.07
Jamie
Recently, the San Francisco Federal court held that websites are required by California law to be accessible. The reason for this is that Target failed to make it’s website accessible to the blind. The Target site failed to provide alt tags for images, keyboard options for navigation and navigation headers. There seems to be differing opinions on whether building accessible sites should be a legal requirement. Read the rest of this entry »
Design, Web
26.09.07
Jamie
A few of us at Dusted had the opportunity to take a trip to Brighton for the dConstruct 2007 conference. The conference was extremely interesting and covered some topics that will definitely encourage great design for the user experience! Read the rest of this entry »
Design, Dusted, Technology, Web
24.05.07
Jamie
“Take a design… Put it in front of users. Change anything that doesn’t work. Repeat.” According to Jared Spool, customers don’t care about usability and design, it seems they are more interested in increased revenue and getting more business. Read the rest of this entry »
Design, Web
22.05.07
Jamie
For many developers a gentle nudge is often needed to encourage the correct use of semantic (X)HTML, the nudge in this case is Plain Old Semantic HTML (POSH). There is a POSH checklist for developers to follow and also some helpful resources. To keep on track just write meaningful markup and put presentation to one side, until you start writing the stylesheet.
Technology
13.04.07
Matt
An outstanding tool for visualising colour theory, ColorJack: Sphere can be used to create colour schemes or to see how different types of colour-blindness can effect the user’s experience. Also available as an OS X Widget for Dashboard.
Design, Web
12.04.07
Jamie
One of the drawbacks of web 2.0 apps is that the limitations of (X)HTML can cause usability and accessibility problems. The W3C’s standards draft for Accessible Rich Internet Applications (ARIA) looks to address those limitations. Read the rest of this entry »
Technology, Web
