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Three Column Layouts
From CSS Discuss The question of finding good 3 column layouts comes up in the mail list from time to time. Here are some that I have found, along with a few notations about what features they include and how they work. The judgment of "good" is left to you and your needs. Each offers interesting techniques for the CSS student. By the way, when visiting these, look around; many of these people offer other layouts that I have not included here.
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Good Call-To-Action Buttons
What can you do to make your calls-to-action more effective? The call-to-action button is an important tool in the user experience designer’s box of tricks. In this article I’ll give you a few pointers on providing effective ones. Prioritizing tasks Some tasks on your website are more important than others.
We continue to collect the best web-development-related sites, articles, references, tutorials and freebies released or published online over the last month. Below you’ll find a list of useful resources you shouldn’t have missed in January 2007. Links checked: July/04 2008 .
Web-Sites of the Month: The Best of January 2007 | Smashing Maga
45 Fresh, Clean and Impressive Designs
Sometimes it’s just amazing to see, which level of usability, legibility and visual appeal can be achieved using some basic design techniques. In fact, some talented web-developers manage to deliver powerful, functional and gorgeous web-design in “look-and-feel”-style, which is easy to use and nice to see. Recently we’ve listed 50 Beautiful CSS-based web-design of 2006 and chosen some of the most beautiful and inspiring dark web-designs . Now we’ve selected 45 more fresh, clean and impressive designs . Let’s take a look.
Great Visualizers: Always With Honor
Design duo Tyler Lang and Elsa Chaves are Always With Honor , an Portland-based design team with a specialty in beautifully simple information displays and iconography. I first got turned on to / by their work when I spotted this awesome poster. It visualizes the many domains within design. Somewhat awesomely . (Here’s a link to a massive hi-res version ) Simple shapes, simple typography, simple colour characterises their work.
Holiday Wrappin’ Paper We sent these to all our clients, freelancers and associates. Red + blue prints designed by Mike Serafin, green + yellow ones by me. Photo and VERY precise wrapping by friend-of-the-studio Shawn Hazen. Printed at Screwball Press, Chicago.
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How The World Spends Its Time Online |
<a href="http://www.creditloan.com/blog/2010/06/16/how-the-world-spends-its-time-online/"><img src="http://www.creditloan.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/timespentonline.gif" alt="timespentonline"/></a> How the World Spends Its Time Online Nielsen periodically releases data from its studies of consumer behavior online. Here are the latest findings regarding social networking, branding and world net usage. Total Time Spent Worldwide The average American spends more than 60 hours a month online.