Starting Out Organized: Website Content Planning The Right Way -

So many articles explain how to design interfaces, design graphics and deal with clients. But one step in the Web development process is often skipped over or forgotten altogether: content planning . Sometimes called information architecture, or IA planning, this step doesn’t find a home easily in many people’s workflow. But rushing on to programming and pushing pixels makes for content that looks shoehorned rather than fully integrated and will only require late-game revisions. Your New Project: How It Goes All Too Often On day one things are great. On day two you get the following: And on day three you get an email that makes half of the junk you got yesterday obsolete. You’re only three days in, and the project is already no fun. We know that a great website relies on all parts working in harmony. Allows you to organize deliverables from various media; Lets you rapidly make changes when needed (it’s called planning for a reason: things change!) The Architecture: Every Brick Counts Slides

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Responsive Web Design: What It Is and How To Use It - Smashing Magazine Advertisement Almost every new client these days wants a mobile version of their website. It’s practically essential after all: one design for the BlackBerry, another for the iPhone, the iPad, netbook, Kindle — and all screen resolutions must be compatible, too. 10 Principles Of Effective Web Design - Smashing Magazine Advertisement Usability and the utility, not the visual design, determine the success or failure of a web-site. Since the visitor of the page is the only person who clicks the mouse and therefore decides everything, user-centric design has become a standard approach for successful and profit-oriented web design. After all, if users can’t use a feature, it might as well not exist.

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Drop shadow with CSS for all web browsers This article is also available in Bulgarian One of the most common CSS effects is using shadows in various ways. Before, we needed to resort to images, but now we can offer this to all major web browser with CSS! Web browser support Believe me or not, but all of these web browsers we can offer shadows with CSS: Firefox 3.5+Safari 3+Google ChromeOpera 10.50Internet Explorer 5.5

Design a Beautiful Website From Scratch Have you ever wanted to design a beautiful website but just didn't know how? To be honest, a few years ago, that happened to me too. While browsing the web, I saw so many nice looking websites and wished I had the skills to create such designs. Content Strategy: Optimizing Your Efforts For Success - Smashing Magazine Advertisement Content strategy is a beast with many heads, names and trajectories. To approach it is to be sucked in full force. Even so, as crucial as content strategy is, conveying its gravity to a big audience, or to key administrators, is often hard. Being so inherently complex, it’s often easiest to tackle by example.

Creating Polaroid Style Images with Just CSS - ZURB Playground - ZURB.com Through a combination of browser-specific CSS (2 and 3) integration and some basic styling, we've turned regular old images into cool looking polaroid style images—with no additional markup to show the text. Using the Title Attribute Instead of adding additional markup (more headings or paragraphs), we've opted to reuse the content within the title attribute of the surrounding anchor tag. Since it's good practice to use proper title text, and it's really freaking cool to do stuff with just CSS.

Using Landmarks Makes Page Layout Easy A design may have impact. It may have style. But having these isn’t enough. To work well, a design has to have elements that play off each other’s strengths.