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. A good designer will try to understand the objectives of the website and understand which tasks are really important. Essentially, both analogies make the point that the majority of your site’s value is provided by a small number of tasks. With these priority tasks, you need to remove any friction that slows the user’s progress. Choosing your words carefully Buttons are for actions, like ‘Get a quote’, ‘Download’, ‘Open an account’, ‘Go to checkout’. Think about what your user would say if you asked him what he was trying to do. Using the right words reduces the friction of your key tasks. Cultural subtleties can be the cause of task friction as well. Positioning Use of color Size
OSWT CollyLogic | Simon Collison's Illogical Waffle 17 Websites Developed with Html5 and Css3 In the past two years, many designers and developers have been getting into design and coding with Html5 and also CSS3. Html5 is great when you’re trying to get more creative with your website. Lately, I have been seeing Html5 animations being used a lot, which gives you the feel of flash, but keeps SEO for your website. In this post, you will see 17 Websites Developed with Html5 and Css3 with cool animations. chriswi.be vitalitycity.com mobilezr.com danielcrisp.com beerblogging.org chemicalromance.fr firefoxtweetmachine.com birrificioirpino.it touchtech.co.nz worryfreelabs.com volunteerlouisiana.gov rays-lab.com 1minus1.com preparetoactivate.com vertaaverkkoja.fi nizoapp.com ryandelaney.co.nz
web2.0 top designs OpenSource Templates 30 Cutting Edge Examples Of CSS Navigation | Graphic and Web Design Blog -Resources And Tutorials Navigation is one of those things you have to get right in order to provide your users with easy access to your website’s content. Today we’ll take a look at 30 well-designed navigation menus. Some of them use CSS sprites, some use jQuery or another library, and others take advantage of the great properties available in CSS3. I hope you will enjoy this post. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 3.7 Designs 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. If you enjoyed this article, get email updates (it's free).
Sécurité Wordpress : comment protéger son site Wordpress ? Une fois que vous avez réalisé toutes les opérations ci-dessus, votre site WordPress contient encore quelques failles souvent utilisées par les hackers pour forcer l’entrée de votre site. Nous allons donc sécuriser l’interface de connexion à votre site WordPress. Limiter les tentatives de connexion Le plugin « Login Attempts » permet de limiter les tentatives de connexion à l’administration de votre site. Truffé d’options, ce plugin est d’une efficacité redoutable. Autre petit conseil qui « ne mange pas de pain » : dans la Whitelist, ajoutez votre ou vos IP de connexions habituelles.
45 Fresh, Clean and Impressive Designs Advertisement 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 20061 and chosen some of the most beautiful and inspiring dark web-designs2. Now we’ve selected 45 more fresh, clean and impressive designs. Let’s take a look. 5. 7. 8. 9. 12. 13. 16. 17. 18. 19. 21. 22. scpgt | matt northam15 23. sparklette.net16 26. 28. 29. luke stevens | design + consulting20 32. 34. sebdesign.eu | graphic and web design | online portfolio22 35. 36. 40. 41. kara burke illustrations : prints27 42. 45. It's done.
50+ CSS Techniques Designers Should Know 118 Flares Twitter 9 Facebook 0 Google+ 0 StumbleUpon 109 Pin It Share 0 118 Flares × CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) is just an important part of Web Designing. Without CSS, Websites can look untidy as it used to happen before. Designers can alter images, graphics, shading, spacing and other design elements. It can provide the designers with number of new styles to design a website. It can make the user to have complete control over the appearance of the website. Navigation Matrix Reloaded Advance CSS Menus Block Hover Effect for a List of Links Cross Browser CSS SlideShow Hoverbox Image Gallery CSS Tabs Make Clickable Areas Bigger CSS-Based Forms: Techniques CSS Based Image Maps Sliding Photograph Galleries CSS For Bar Graphs Control Tabs Some styles for your Pagination No JavaScript LightBox Using CSS Drop shadow on an image CSS Shadows Styling blockquotes with CSS Glowing Tabs Menu Image Replacement for Buttons Cross Browser Multi-Page Photograph Gallery Footer Stick CSS Star Rating Part Redux CSS Map Pop
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. (Here’s a link to a massive hi-res version) Simple shapes, simple typography, simple colour characterises their work. Struck me there was something cool about trying to visualize such an unimaginably complex process with super-simple graphics. Always With Honor create the best icons! They also had a strong influence on the look and feel of Good Magazine’s infographic Transparency section. My favourite piece, somewhat selfishly, is the Colours In Culture image on the cover of Information Is Beautiful. In fact, we’ve just litho-printed a gorgeous poster version of this image on 220 gsm, FSC-certified art paper. The coolest thing though is that it’s a 6-colour process print. Order a copy from our store now.
10 CSS Snippets to Save Precious Time | Blog Oh Blog Today, I have compiled a set of 10 CSS snippets that can save you a lot of time and effort. These codes are needed frequently when developing CSS-based websites or themes. Just bookmark these codes (Ctrl + D) so that you don’t have to look for them on the Internet every time. 1. Through this code, you can have your own tooltips using just CSS. Now, use the tooltips like this :- [html] Easy TooltipThis is the crazy little Easy Tooltip Text.. 2. HTML tags on different browsers have their own formatting and styling. 3. This code will add different color borders around your assets depending on its level. 4. You can easily center a DIV by using margin:auto; property when you have mentioned its width in your CSS. 5. Instead of using any kind of JavaScript to add a loading icon before your large image is loaded, you can use this simple CSS technique. 6. In case you need to preload images before the loading of your page completes, use the following technique. 7. 8. 9. 10.