SEO for Bing Versus Google
As we all know, Microsoft’s Bing is the new kid on the search engine block. However, with high profile ad campaigns, a deal to power the rejuvenated Yahoo! search and some recent bad publicity for Google, Bing now finds itself powering nearly 30% of the search market share[1] (if you consider Yahoo! search). Not bad considering it was launched just a little over a year ago.
Organization Tips For Web Designers
As a web designer, you’re often forced to wear many different hats every day. You’re the CEO, creative director, office manager, coffee fetcher and sometimes even janitor. That’s a lot for anyone, and it certainly makes it difficult to find any time for quality creative thinking. Organization in any operation is important, and for our work as web designers it is important, too. The good news? You don’t have to have been born an organizational machine. Let’s look at what being organized means and a few strategies and tips to help you clean up that messy desk and get your work ducks in a nice neat row.
50 Excellent Photography-Related Tutorials
With the advent of affordable digital cameras and photo-editing software such as Photoshop, what used to be an expensive profession is more and more accessible to casual individuals.There are many tutorials and guides on the web to help you become a photography master. This is a collection of 50 of the best tutorials and guides we could find for helping you capture better digital photos.
Get Started Using PHP
This PHP tutorial will guide you through the process of learning and using PHP, preparing you with some fundamental knowledge to get you started in the right path. We will talk about the history of PHP, create a local development environment (so that you won’t need a web server) and create a basic PHP script while discussing common beginner PHP gotchas along the way.
Use the 80-20 Rule to Increase Your Website’s Effectiveness
Want to increase your website’s conversion rate? Want more subscribers, opt-ins, members, customers? How about doing less work while you’re at it?
It’s possible if you apply the 80-20 rule: focus on the 20% that will bring you 80% of the results. By doing an 80-20 optimization of your website — whittling your pages down to the 20% of things that produces 80% of the results — you’ll not only have a simpler site that’ll convert better, but you’ll have less work in developing and managing it since there’ll be fewer elements to think about.
Open-Source Design: Can Design By Committee Work?
In celebrating the merits of free software and the excitement over this radical networked production method, an important truth is left unspoken. Networked collaboration shines in the low levels of network protocols, server software and memory allocation, but user interface has consistently been a point of failure. How come the networked collaboration that transformed code production and encyclopedia-writing fails to translate to graphic and interface design?
10 Free Website Chat Widgets to Make Your Site Interactive
If you want to make your website livelier, then adding a website chat widget is perhaps one of the more effective solutions for increasing user engagement and growing your community.
10 SEO Tips to Remember When Building Your Site
When you are building a website–after all, the Web is where it is all happening now. As soon as your website goes live–and especially while you are still in the design and development phase–you need to make sure your site’s content will be found through search engines such as Google, Yahoo!, and Bing where many people go to look for information.
Web Languages: Decoded
Those of us who have become well seasoned to the dyslexia-inducing array of web languages often overlook the diversity and additional interactivity we can gain by learning another language or two.
Top 15 Google Chrome Extensions For Web Developer
Google Chrome is a relatively new member of the browser family but since Google created it and since it’s performance, minimalist interface, and usability is as good as it gets Google Chrome has been producing some major buzz around web for some time. One of the features that made Firefox highly popular is it’s plugin framework and the endless supply of excellent extensions. Google of cause have seen this and added a similar feature to Google Chrome and the community around the browser has taken up the challenge and published a wide range of highly useful extensions for Google Chrome as well. This article show you a list of top extensions for Web Developers that you cant afford to miss. If you don’t have Chrome you can get it for free here.
Redesign vs. Realign
It’s been nearly five years now since the redesign vs. realign debate began. Many designers are still approaching website changes as redesigns, with little thought to whether they should be redesigning or realigning the site for their clients. In fact, many designers are still a bit confused about which one is appropriate for which projects, or even what the difference really is.
Browser Testing
One task drives web professionals to distraction more than almost any other: testing whether their design works equally well in a multitude of browsers and on different devices. The list of browsers and platforms to verify against keeps getting longer, and as designers, our tempers are getting proportionally shorter; IE6 will probably feature in nightmares for years to come!
HTML5 and CSS3 Books You should be Read
Over the past year, new techniques and tricks involving HTML5 and CSS3 enhancements have been shared on a number of websites, giving developers new possibilities for improving the user experience. Of course, the plethora of information online is hard to keep up with, and some of it may be out of date, inaccurate, or may fail to promote accessibility, progressive enhancement, or other best practices methods. To that end, designers and developers today may prefer to have a desktop reference in the form of a good old ink and paper companion.
Semantic CSS3 Lightboxes
The rise of jQuery, MooTools, and JavaScript frameworks has given many web designers a new lease on life, adding more unique functionality into their sites. Most notably among the various cool and interesting features you can find being injected into a design is the humble lightbox (modal window).
Psychology of Web Design
Designers often don’t take the time they should to learn about how basic psychological principles can effect the experience their visitors have on the sites they build. Psychological principles are either looked upon as unnecessary, or too complicated. But the truth is that they’re neither.
Adobe Fireworks: Is It Worth Switching to CS5?
Adobe Fireworks is the Swiss Army knife for many developers and Web, UX, UI and graphic designers. The application is known for its versatility, excellent blend of vector and bitmap tools and powerful built-in wireframing and prototyping options. Also, according to the SoDA 2010 Digital Marketing Outlook survey, Fireworks has become an important tool for many digital agencies.
Resurrecting User Interface Prototypes
Every user interface designer is familiar with this procedure to some extent: creating a prototype and evaluating it with potential users to understand how the user interface should look and behave. Users will tell you what nags them and should therefore be improved before you code. So, at the beginning of any UI design process, you can expect your prototype to have to be modified in order to work.
Complete Guide To Live Blogging
If you’re attending a conference or other event related to your blog’s niche, you might want to consider live blogging from the event. Live blogging is basically just posting regular updates to your blog as the event is taking place, rather than blogging about it after the fact.
50 Awesome Animations made with CSS3
CSS3 has brought some amazing new features. And the most fun is playing with the CSS animation. Here is a compilation of 50 CSS3 animation that allows you to perform many motion-based functions normally Delegated to JavaScript. In order to view this effect, you are required to have WebKit browsers like Safari and Chrome ( very sorry for the users of Internet Explorer )
Top 20+ Helpful Color Tools for Designers
If you are a designer that is stumped on color variations for your project, you’re in luck. Choosing colors for your project can be a hard task. You have an idea in your head but you can only pick one. For this type of situation you should play around with different color variations. For this task we have gathered many useful color combination tools to make this process easier. Although the tools are all different, their main goal is color schemes. We found other tools, but they didn’t meet the criteria, so the tools below are the best on the web!