links for 2006-01-19

Adobe Spot :: Your Spot for Adobe Tutorials
This is a technique that you have probably seen before. A face, or picture, is made up of a huge body of text, but the text is different colors or shades to make it look like the picture? Yea, it’s a really cool technique, and now you can [...]

January 19th, 2006 | No Comments »

Study reveals Web Design’s importance in the eye of the user

Dr Gitte Lindgaard and colleagues from Carleton University in Ottawa conducted a study on the behaviour of Internet users. It seems that users can take just one-twentieth of a second to decide whether they like the look of a website.
“Visual appeal can be assessed within 50 milliseconds, suggesting that web designers have about 50 milliseconds [...]

January 19th, 2006 | No Comments »

links for 2006-01-16

Web users judge sites in the blink of an eye - Potential readers can make snap decisions in just 50 milliseconds.
Like the look of our website? Whatever the answer (and hopefully it was yes), the chances are you made your mind up within the first twentieth of a second. A study by researchers in Canada [...]

January 16th, 2006 | 1 Comment »

Create a My Web 2.0 Badge

Do you have your own website or blog? You can display your most recent My Web links on your site with a My Web Badge. Just select your badge options, and they’ll give you the code to cut and paste into your web page or blog template.
Add a “Save to My Web” Button to [...]

January 10th, 2006 | 3 Comments »

links for 2006-01-09

ClustrMaps - Hit counter map shows locations of all visitors to your site - free
See at a glance where your site’s visitors are located: instantaneously, even when the numbers are enormous! Visitors don’t need to click on anything: just viewing your page is sufficient.
(tags: blog design seo internet webdesign)

Bring on the tables | 456 Berea [...]

January 9th, 2006 | No Comments »

Small Websites, Great Results

Small Websites, Great Results is the perfect book for today because many businesses are beginning to understand the need and wisdom of simplicity. This book shows readers that bigger is not necessarily better and that there is a proven method for building sites that require less resources but produce fantastic results. The author’s mantra [...]

December 27th, 2005 | 1 Comment »

Enhanced Web Design and DTP with Mapsoft’s Thumbnails Adobe Acrobat Plug-In

Company websites, reports and marketing material customised for enhanced accessibility and more effective marketing
Businesses wishing to improve their website and enable visitors to navigate quickly and easily through company credentials, reports and product information can do so with Thumbnails, an Acrobat customisation plug-in from software development specialist Mapsoft.
Thumbnails is an ideal tool for use in [...]

December 26th, 2005 | No Comments »

Web Design Company Searching for the Worst Website

Intechnic Corporation, a Chicago-based web development company is searching for the worst business web site to award a $10,000 makeover.
Have you ever had a frustrating online experience where you couldn’t find what you were looking for, couldn’t place an order, or even find the order button? Intechnic Corporation is searching for the worst business website [...]

December 26th, 2005 | No Comments »

Technorati : Claim Your Weblog Now

Join Technorati today! It is free and you can setup a Watchlist for your favorite URLs and search terms. Watchlists are a powerful way to track what is happening on the web right now: news, sports, corporate information or whatever information is interesting and important to you. Start tracking the daily conversations emerging around the [...]

November 9th, 2005 | No Comments »

Adsense Referral Program

Referrals is a feature of AdSense that allows you to increase your revenue while increasing your users’ awareness of useful products and services. By adding a referral button to your site, you can direct users to products like AdSense and Firefox with Google Toolbar. When your referral connects a user to AdSense or Firefox, you [...]

November 5th, 2005 | 1 Comment »

links for 2005-10-18

Jay Arraich’s Photoshop Tips
These tips are for beginners not Photoshop experts, but if you are a pro, you might find them entertaining.
(tags: tips photoshop graphicdesign)

Tips & Techniques - Digital Hair Mania!
Getting a little light-headed these days? Want to change your image? You’ve come to the right place! Experiment with the wonders of Adobe® Photoshop® to [...]

October 18th, 2005 | No Comments »

links for 2005-09-02

optimal web design
Criteria for optimal web design (designing for usability)
(tags: webdesign tips)

Dojo - DojoToolkit.org
Dojo is a unified Open Source DHTML toolkit that builds on several contributed code bases (nWidgets, Burstlib, and f(m)). Dojo aims to solve some long-standing historical problems with DHTML which has prevented mass adoption of dynamic web application dev
(tags: dhtml webdesign)

GUIdebook: Graphical [...]

September 2nd, 2005 | No Comments »