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The Anatomy of a Perfect Landing Page Placement and Content 7. Keep It Above the Fold The space a visitor sees without having to scroll is where the most important parts of the webpage should be. Place the call-to-action button above the fold and in a location where the viewer's eye will scan to. Never have the button or form in a place where it has to be searched for. 8. Optimize a landing page for conversion over time. 9. Implementing motivational speeches, videos of user testimonials, and product images into a home page can have a positive impact on viewers, as well as give shoppers an extra push to look further into a product. Bellroy uses great imagery and videos on many of their pages. 10. Links connecting the user to a bunch of other sites or pages will distract them and have a negative impact on conversions. This landing page is designed well, but look at all those header links getting in the way of the message!
The W3C QA Toolbox - Validators, checkers and other tools for Webmasters and Web Developers Get help Stack Overflow has a great and active community focused around W3C Standards and W3C developer tools. To ask a question to the W3C Community, we invite you to use the w3c tag. Ask a question Contribute Developers are welcome to get involved by contributing code, either to existing tools or proposed future projects. Testing, bug reports, suggestions, or help in creating good documentation are also important! You will find more information to get started in each project on their own web page. Find projects on Github Donate Good tools cost a lot to develop, support, host and maintain. With your help, we can make the tools and validators better, faster, friendlier, and maintain a great, free service for all of the Web. Donate now
Web Design Questionnaires, Project Sheets and Work Sheets - Smashing Magazine Advertisement It’s nearly impossible to provide an accurate quote to a prospective Web design client without first gathering information about what that particular client needs. Some designers do this in either a face-to-face meeting or over the phone, but more often, they have a questionnaire that prospective clients fill out. This is preferable for a couple of reasons; the most important, is probably that this document then becomes an integral part of the design process and is available to refer back to. So the question is, whether you should put that questionnaire up on your website or only send it to prospective clients once they’ve contacted you. Here, we’ve collected questionnaires and worksheets used by actual Web design companies, including some of the leaders in the industry. Downloadable Questionnaires While online forms are certainly popular, so are downloadable questionnaires. We Are Pixel8 Happy Cog Great Example Question: Are you familiar with the concept of Web standards? (rs)
C Data Activity - Building the Web of Data More and more Web applications provide a means of accessing data. From simple visualizations to sophisticated interactive tools, there is a growing reliance on the availability of data which can be “big” or “small”, of diverse origin, and in different formats; it is usually published without prior coordination with other publishers — let alone with precise modeling or common vocabularies. The Data Activity recognizes and works to overcome this diversity to facilitate potentially Web-scale data integration and processing. The overall vision of the Data Activity is that people and organizations should be able to share data as far as possible using their existing tools and working practices but in a way that enables others to derive and add value, and to utilize it in ways that suit them. Questions? The Data Activity merges and builds upon the eGovernment and Semantic Web Activities. There is a benign current of centralization in vocabularies.
45 Incredibly Useful Web Design Checklists and Questionnaires - Smashing Magazine Designing websites can be a long and complicated process. Dealing with clients, designing prototypes, coding, programming, and testing – there’s a lot to keep track of and a lot to make sure gets done. That’s where checklists can make your life a whole lot easier. Below are 45 checklists to make your design process easier and more organized. Also consider our previous article: 15 Essential Checks Before Launching Your Website1 lists some important things to check before you make your sites public. 1. These questionnaires and checklists are focused on making your relationships with your clients better. How to Extract the Facts with a Web Design Client Questionnaire2 This questionnaire from Freelance Switch is meant to send out to prospective clients to get a good idea of what they’re looking for from a website. Design checklist: What clients should provide their designer4 A checklist of things that clients should provide their designer at the outset. 2. 3. 4. Dr. 5. 6. 7. 8.
W3C cheatsheet The encoding used for an HTML page that contains a form should support all the characters needed to enter data into that form. This is particularly important if users are likely to enter information in multiple languages. Databases and scripts that receive data from forms on pages in multiple languages must also be able to support the characters for all those languages simultaneously. The simplest way to enable this is to use Unicode for both pages containing forms and all back-end processing and storage. In such a scenario the user can fill in data in whatever language and script they need to. You should also try to avoid making assumptions that things such as the user's name and address will follow the same formatting rules as your own. If you are gathering information from people in more than one country, it is important to develop a strategy for addressing the different formats people will expect to be able to use. So, how do I do this?
Positioning Content - Learn to Code HTML Lesson 5 One of the best things about CSS is that it gives us the ability to position content and elements on a page in nearly any imaginable way, bringing structure to our designs and helping make content more digestible. There are a few different types of positioning within CSS, and each has its own application. Positioning with Floats#floats One way to position elements on a page is with the float property. Essentially, the float property allows us to take an element, remove it from the normal flow of a page, and position it to the left or right of its parent element. When the float property is used on multiple elements at the same time, it provides the ability to create a layout by floating elements directly next to or opposite each other, as seen in multiple-column layouts. The float property accepts a few values; the two most popular values are left and right, which allow elements to be floated to the left or right of their parent element. Floats in Practice Layout without Floats Demo
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