Web design

VoiceOver tutorial helps web designers

VoiceOver is a handy tool in a web designer’s toolbox. And it comes free on all recent Macs.

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WordPress Adventure

Today I taught 2 courses for Pacific New Media: WordPress Explorer, a very introductory course about WordPress, and WordPress Adventurer that showed participants how to begin customising their blog. Some of the participants were kind enough to allow me to take their photo. Techark sponsored some hosting for us. That allowed me to set up [...]

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Does your website have too much ‘guff’?

Welcome to this blog post. You may also be interested in … Aaargh! Rewind! Does your website have too much ‘guff’? Rachel McAlpine wrote about visiting a friend in the middle of major hospital renovations, and points out how websites should be: [the guide] did not say Welcome to Wellington Hospital. He did not spout [...]

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The tiny red star

Here’s a general note to people who design forms for the web: if you’re going to use a tiny red asterisk to denote required fields, then for heaven’s sake don’t use the same tiny red asterisk to indicate a warning on a field that isn’t required. The contract I’m working on for my client involves [...]

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The problems with website frames

Some websites still use “frames” as a way to keep navigation and branding in front of visitors’ eyes all the time while fresh content loads. Frames create problems for visitors though. Find out why. [First published August 2005.] I know! We’ll use frames! You’re designing a website. Whichever page a visitor is on, you want [...]

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Do your images drive people away?

Make sure the size and waiting time for your pictures don’t drive away your visitors. Here’s how.

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