How can we build perfect web Grid?

So you are a web designer and you like your work. You have the drive to improve yourself so you do some reading about web design. You find out there are blind people surfing the web and after the initial giggle you start to realize this is actually serious business. You continue reading about screen reader software and html source order. After a while you are hooked and want to put these things in practice. But then what ...

If we want our customers to embrace Information architecture, we must help them understand why we need it. IA is about selling ideas effectively, designing with accuracy, and working with complex interactivity to guide different personas (potential customers) through website experiences.

Agile is here to stay. The economic difficulties of the past months have finally put waterfall out of its misery; now more than ever, long requirements phases and vaporous up-front documentation aren’t acceptable. Software must be visible and valuable from the start.

Although this book is already 20 years old, surprisingly the design advices and observations still hold true for software UI today....

C# Coding Guidelines and Best Practices

One on the Mac, and one on the PC. First, the Mac.

I just saw that sitepoint was giving away a free PDF download of their book - “The Art & Science of CSS”. I’ve bought the book some time ago, and I really enjoyed it and would recommend it.

Opera Software today, 25 November 2008, released the next version of the Opera Mini mobile browser, Opera Mini 4.2. From the first time I used Mini I never looked back as there is just no alternative to Opera Mini for a truly rich mobile internet experience.

One concept that seems to brew controversy in the web development world is should you be opening your links in new windows or in the same window? The simple answer... it depends.

Halo3 is one of the earliest—and definitely one of the highest-profile—mass-market videogames to benefit from the contributions of a dedicated interaction designer.

Get to know sexy administration interfaces hidden here and there on the web!

Because many people stumble on your 404 page, it is important to know which features a good 404 error page should have. This article will also learn you how to implant your custom 404 error page on your blog or site.

Every now and again we take a look around, select “fresh” high-quality free fonts and present them to you in a brief overview. The choice is enormous, so the time you need to find them is usually the time you should be investing in your current projects. We search for them and we find them, so you don’t have to.

How I enumerate different IDEs according to my needs.

A little Rant about Maven.

There’s a glaring issue with this dialog from the Amazon MP3 Downloader. What is it?

Currently, I am dealing with one of my current clients. They control a multi-national non-profit organization. In the past they have used basic html to do the work for them in the web side of things. They came to me through a person I knew and asked me to do very minor things for their web site. I agreed and started working with them. There last request was to accept payment through the website and I told them to look at PayPal. I thought it was the best bang for their buck.

CSS can be an extremely powerful markup language for designers. However, the CSS that is produced is only as good as the principles that are being followed by the designer creating the code. While you may think that anyone can crank out CSS, there is a big difference between writing CSS and producing top notch CSS. To ensure that you are on the right track, here are eight CSS principles that every web designer should be following.

Jakob Nielsen, Usability guru and author of Usability Engineering, raises the concern that Agile methods are a threat to traditional approaches to designing usability. He goes on to propose solutions so that usability designers can work together in the Agile world. In addition Alistair Cockburn, while generally supporting Jakob, takes issue with a few of his points

Maybe you're a seasoned jQuery pro. Heck, maybe you're John Resig. On the other hand, maybe you read words like "Prototype", "jQuery", and "Mootools" and think to yourself, "What the heck are these?" Now is the time to learn.

Are you addicted to gradients, big fonts, a typical set of icons to explain that there’s 39 comments on your great post? It’s very easy to get stuck in the same old look and feel, even though your designs are very different from each other. We tackle this in different ways (although some people doesn’t need to tackle it, and others do but just don’t). Me, for example, can CSS galleries, look at photos, listens to music, glance to magazines, look at games and movies, and take long walks. There’s always something to get the mind thinking of new ways to do this or that.

Icons are the basic requirement of any web related projects and good icons are like a treasure for web designers. Being a successful creative web artist has a lot to do with the way you work. Sure, you can’t teach good design in some lessons or you can’t create icons for your daily needs, but it never hurts to pick a few free icons which are always available free to grub.

Einstein is quoted as having said that if he had one hour to save the world he would spend fifty-five minutes defining the problem and only five minutes finding the solution.

Make your screen capture and sharing experience more interesting, here’s a showcase of 40+ Free Screen Capturing Tools and Related Techniques.