CrazyEgg Over 200,000 businesses Convert Better with Crazy Egg, The Original Heatmapping Technology A heatmap is an easy way to understand what users want, care about and do on your site by visually representing their clicks - which are the strongest indicators of visitor motivation and desire. A Crazy Egg heatmap lets you collect more than 88% of the data you would using a traditional eye-tracking process. At a fraction of the price. With no hardware. Because Google Analytics & Site Catalyst Leave Questions Unanswered, Trust Crazy Egg Visualizations to Help You Understand Your Users. Wouldn't you like to fill in the gaps left by analytics… without A/B testing every little assumption… and without breaking the bank on in-lab usability studies? Heat Maps: At a glance, see the hotspots on each page - so you know what to change, preserve or delete "Do our users think they can click greyed out buttons?" Click-Tracking Overlays: Find a hot spot? Scroll Maps: Confetti (our little surprise):
Hot Dreamweaver - Extensions PSDharvest.com - free files for designers and web developers Top 10 Things Customers Expect from Your Online Store Oneupweb has recently put out some interesting research which includes the top 10 consumer expectations that influence purchase decisions. Let’s take a closer look at these items: Pricing/shipping information clearly stated – 95.5% No surprises here, as several studies have found that “sticker shock” (the unexpected inflation of final price due to shipping and taxes) is the number one reason for cart abandonment. Crutchfield does a good job presenting not just the price but shipping, warranty and servicing prices on this product page: Looks credible and trustworthy – 76.5% If you’re not a household name, you can improve your site’s “trustworthiness” by having a clean and professional design (yes, first impressions count). You must also avoid things that scare off your customers like expired SSL certificate warning messages (even the largest sites can fall victim to this). Product displayed on homepage – 70.8% Most online stores show products on the home page, but not every site.
20 Methods for Upping Your Current Web Design Skills Design All great designers are constantly improving their skills. There has never been a successful designer, or anyone of another profession for that matter, that has stopped at a certain point and said, "Good enough". Fortunately, there are plenty of ways to always be learning new things, and to always be improving. In this post we're looking into 20 different ways a web designer can improve their skills at any time. 20 Great Improvement Methods 1. Check out websites like UI-Patterns.com to explore the best user interface patterns for the web. User Interface Pattern Websites: 2. Look at the detail in everyday objects, and actively look at detail in other web designs. 3. Many clients love a designer that offers SEO services. 4. Trends are never something a web designer should solely rely on, but learning new trends is a great way to keep up with technology, and to keep you as a designer out of a rut. 5. 6. Image credit: Dey 7. 8. 9. Image credit: Jakob Montrasio 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16.
Animated Content Menu with jQuery Today we will create a slick animated content menu with jQuery for a restaurant theme. The menu items will be animated and when clicked, a content area with more information will appear. Also, he background image is going to change according to which menu item was clicked. The main idea is to […] View demoDownload source Today we will create a slick animated content menu with jQuery for a restaurant theme. The main idea is to have a restaurant menu with the different menu categories displayed. So, let’s get started. The Markup The HTML structure is going to contain some elements for the background image, the grid overlay, the loading icon and the main menu. As a default background image when the page loads, we will have the image Default.jpg. The menu content will be wrapped by a div with the class “ac_content”. For each menu item, we will have a div “ac_subitem” which will contain the submenu content box. Let’s take a look at the style. The CSS @import url('reset.css'); The JavaScript
Einstein for Everyone Einstein for Everyone Nullarbor Press 2007revisions 2008, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 Copyright 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 John D. Norton Published by Nullarbor Press, 500 Fifth Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260 with offices in Liberty Ave., Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 15222 All Rights Reserved John D. An advanced sequel is planned in this series:Einstein for Almost Everyone 2 4 6 8 9 7 5 3 1 ePrinted in the United States of America no trees were harmed web*bookTM This book is a continuing work in progress. January 1, 2015. Preface For over a decade I have taught an introductory, undergraduate class, "Einstein for Everyone," at the University of Pittsburgh to anyone interested enough to walk through door. With each new offering of the course, I had the chance to find out what content worked and which of my ever so clever pedagogical inventions were failures. At the same time, my lecture notes have evolved. This text owes a lot to many. i i i
15 Fresh and Powerful CSS3 Tutorials CSS3 is here, it’s fun, and allows us to evolve the look of the web as we go. Features like gradients, drop shadows, rounded corners, animations, and opacity are giving us the promise of more fun. In this post we’ve collected some new and brilliant tutorials that will help you in mastering your CSS3 skills. We’ll create a document icon with pure CSS3. When applying CSS3 inset box-shadow or border-radius directly to the image element, the browser doesn’t render the CSS style perfectly. There are so many great things we can do with the additional properties and possibilities that CSS3 brings along. Designing a table is a challenge. During this tutorial we’re going to use CSS3 to create ticket-like tags, without relying on any images. We are going to create some thumbnail hover effects with CSS3 transitions. See how easy is to create a spinning rays animation with a bit of CSS. Still hyped by the possibilities of CSS3, we want to share some CSS3 button experiments with you.
Top Ten Free Tools To Create Awesome Infographics Information graphics or infographics as it is generally called are graphical or visual representation of information. It’s an efficient means to present complex information or knowledge in a simple and clear way without any complications. All through the years, this serves as an excellent means for computer scientists, statisticians and different technicians to develop and deliver different concepts using certain symbols that have specific meanings in different processes. These symbols serve as descriptions for certain concepts or processes and hence are helpful in representing information. Today, you can see information graphics in each every aspect of life including scientific and pedestrian styles. There are a number of tools available to create quite attractive and well informative infographics. Stat Planet Stat Planet is an excellent tool for creating interactive visualizations that can be easily customized. Hohli Creately New York Times Many Eyes Google Public Data Wordle Visual.ly
The Four Key Components of a Great Web Design There’s a lot that goes into creating a web design, but I believe it can be broken down into four main components. If you’re able to execute on all four, you will have a hit web design on your hands. However, if you come up short on one, the entire design will suffer. That’s the challenge. All aspects of a great design must compliment each other while helping achieve the end goals of the website. In this article, I’ve broken down the four key components of a great web design with examples and resources. 1. The importance of having a good foundation applies to just about everything in life. Use Wireframes A common practice by web designers to nail down a layout is to create a wireframe, which is basically a bare-bones representation of the various elements that will appear on the page. Jesse Bennett-Chamberlain of 31Three is great about posting his design processes on his blog. Be generous with whitespace Mutant Labs is another great example of good use of whitespace. 2. Big = important 3.
10 Youtube URL Tricks You Should Know About Though it has some competition, YouTube remains the premier video site on the web. With a staggering amount of videos uploaded every day, some people even make a living from the service. 10 Video Sites That Are Better Than YouTube 10 Video Sites That Are Better Than YouTube Here are 10 great alternatives to YouTube, although the "better than" is obviously open to debate... Read More No matter if you’re a casual YouTube user or go looking for the craziest channels you can find, there are all sorts of ways to tweak YouTube to make it just right for you. Let’s look at some URL tricks to get more out of the service. 1. Typically, when you copy a link to a YouTube video, it starts from the beginning. You can do this in a couple of ways. youtube.com/watch? Can be shared 90 seconds in using this URL: youtube.com/watch? If you don’t want to use the manual method, pause the video at the time you’d like to share it at, then right-click and choose Copy video URL at current time. 2. youtube.com/watch?