Archive for June, 2006

Creating pure CSS 3D hover buttons (text-only, no images)

Friday, June 30th, 2006

In this tutorial we’ll review the process of creating 3D buttons with CSS. The buttons are based on text only (no images) with CSS styling. See an example below:

Submit

How site accessibility can improve business

Wednesday, June 28th, 2006

Website accessibility is generally considered something obscure, distant and unimportant to spend your time on. Apart from being a legal requirement in the US, UK and Europe (will be soon), accessible websites have quite a number of advantages in terms of business performance.

First of all, accessible websites are made accessible to people without or with bad eyesight. Apart from people, this includes the search engines, because they don’t appreciate the visual layouts as well.

Designing for people with various reading speed

Monday, June 26th, 2006

A recent research by the Wichita Psychology University analyzed the influence of text-align and page layout (1, 2 and 3 columns) on visitors’ reading speed and comprehension.

For instance, the obvious results were that two-column full-justified text is read with almost the same speed than one-column left-justified text but a lot faster than one-column full-justified text and other two and three column variants.

How do you choose your web designer?

Monday, June 26th, 2006

There many ways of how you can find a web designer: a referall, a job site, a freelance site, by searching or surfing. But what to you value the most in the designer that you decide to choose one over another?

Investing $3000 in a small business website: what exactly to do?

Friday, June 23rd, 2006

There are literally dozens of small businesses on the Internet, each trying to outcompete the others. But an equally hard component of establishing a solid small business is budget deficiency. How can a small business site owner set up a website for $3000?

Clearly, there are lots of challenges in front of many small business website owners:

You know you have been for too long in SEO when..

Friday, June 23rd, 2006

A thread, started at Cre8asiteforums, allows a chuckle or two for seasoned search engine and web development practicioners.

Have you had your moments in the real life when your SEO background creeps in?

Is SEO ethical?

Friday, June 23rd, 2006

We spend so much time optimizing the sites to get higher rankings that sometimes it is hard to distinguish what or who we do it for: for the search engines or for the people? If for the former, then this will not be as effective as the latter. If the latter, then why is it called Search Engine Optimization?