jQuery How to Design a Landing Page to be Conversion Focused Landing pages get a a bad rap. Designers often rebel against some of the basic principles of landing pages. And clients as well as agencies often misunderstand what a landing page really is and how to make it really sing. If you’re in the landing page business — as I am — you know that landing pages are really much more than they’re given credit for. Debunk 1: A Landing Page is a Page. First, they’re far more than a page. Landing Page The first page of any landing experience is its landing page. Land & Jump A single-page landing experience that’s designed to warm the user up to something before it’s shown to them is of-ten called a land & jump (because they’re landing & jumping off to somewhere else for conversion). Microsite A small, topic-specific website with specific, persistent navigation is usually referred to as a microsite. Conversion Path A series of pages designed to segment visitors into sub-groups and subsequently deliver segment-specific content and offer is a conversion path.
CSS Techniques I Wish I Knew When I Started Designing Websites - Dec 18 2009 By Tim Wright and TJ Kelly CSS is the best thing to happen to the web since Tim Berners-Lee. All designers at some point in their career go through the process of encountering a weird display issue, searching for a resolution, and discovering a trick, technique, or hack could have saved them hours of frustration—if they had only known when they started. We’ve put together a list of the most frustrating and time-consuming CSS headaches and, more importantly, their solutions (along with examples and further resources). Resets & Browser Inconsistencies Not all browsers are created equal. The early stages of resets, designers dealt with differing margin and padding values, using a global reset: But, as more people used and discussed resets, it became clear that resetting only margin & padding wasn’t enough (and, applying the above rule to every element is taxing on the rendering engine). inputbuttonhr Resources for Resets Box Model — Margin, Padding & Borders Extras Floats & Clearing <!
Tutorials . Comic . Web Design . Freelance . Blog Jugo Natron How To Use Size, Scale, And Proportion In Web Design Loud and soft, dark and light, big and small. Each is a relative measurement of some quality on some scale. Day doesn’t exist without night and up doesn’t exist without down. Each exists in contrast to the other and contrast occurs on a scale. Size, scale, and proportion are all related concepts. Size: the physical dimensions of an objectScale: the relative size of different objects or of an object to a common standardProportion: harmony of scale Size Web designers make a lot of choices about size. Size is an absolute measurement. We even need to consider the size of the files we create in order to speed up download times. We aren’t limited to using absolute measurements when designing of course, but when your audience is viewing your design everything will appear in absolute measurements. On it’s own size isn’t very interesting. Things get more interesting when we talk about scale. Scale Scale is a relative level or degree. Again scale is about relative measurements. Typographic Scale
10 Best CSS Practices to Improve Your Code It’s really easy to find yourself wondering how your CSS got to be such a mess. Sometimes it’s the result of sloppy coding from the start, sometimes it’s because of multiple hacks and changes over time. Whatever the cause, it doesn’t have to be that way. Here are 11 tips for speeding up the process, writing CSS that is slimmer, faster and less likely to give you a headache. 1. Just like anything else, it pays to keep yourself organized. It will help you keep the cascading part of CSS in mind and sets your style sheet up to take advantage of style inheritance. Declare your most generic items first, then the not-so-generic and so on. Use a structure that works best for you while keeping future edits and other developers in mind. Resets and overridesLinks and typeMain layoutSecondary layout structuresForm elementsMiscellaneous 2. Let others know who wrote your CSS, when it was written and who to contact if they have questions about it. Wait a minute… what’s that bit about swatch colors? 3. 4.
In the Woods - Home Pleasure Cafe Grid—A—Licious™: Just another WordPress weblog Back in mid 2008, I created a jQuery plugin. I named it Grid-A-Licious and described it as, "Divs are placed in chronological order with a special grid" because I had no clue how to explain it better. I used this script a lot and designed many sites with it during 2008. In Dec 2008, I decided to wrap the script into a Wordpress theme and release it as a christmas gift to the world. Today this floating grid layout effect is heavily used around the net and there are tons of different variations of the script to download and use. So, why am I continuing developing this? The plugin is totally rewritten and the biggest change since the previous versions of Grid-A-Licious (and other similar plugins) is that the items in the grid aren’t using absolute positioning any more. If this is something you’ve been looking for, go ahead and download the plugin and use it. width Default 225px gutter Default 20px selector Default .item animate Default false animationOption Default options below queue Default true
How to Create an Organic Web Design (and Showcase) | Webdesigner Organic design is commonly applied to products such as chairs, electronic equipment, books and home décor. Following the same principles, organic web design has recently emerged as a trend. Professional designers and companies have taken a more natural approach to creating their websites, logos and packaging, leaving behind the overtly technological sheen of the early 2000s. Yes, fellow designers, it is safe to say that the new age of organic design for websites and corporate logos has taken effect. Whether overt or subtle, whether scanned elements or graphics that mimic nature, organic web design has taken on many forms. What Makes an Organic Web Design? Though the name suggests that some kind of ecological statement is being made, organic web design is more about bringing natural elements into a technological environment. Using materials, textures and fabrics that hint at organic elements Objects such as muslin, burlap, papyrus, paper, tape and wood. Hints for Successful Organic Web Design
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