Archive for the 'Design' Category

MyNeatSite seeks website participants for research on CSS effectiveness

Friday, July 7th, 2006

MyNeatSite is inviting site owners, willing to learn how converting their site to CSS will improve their speed and efficiency, to enroll their sites’ URL to take part in the research.

Why take part in this study?

- you will learn how exactly converting your site to CSS can make your site load faster
- your site will be mentioned in our research material (a link and some traffic to your site)

External links: to link or not to link?

Wednesday, July 5th, 2006

Nearly every web site owner considers whether he or she should link to external sites or not. There may be many reasons for doing or not doing so, but usually the lack of knowledge outweighs any unknown benefits and the decision is made not to outlink. Can there be something else added to the matter?

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:

Adhering to the web standards to improve online business

Tuesday, June 20th, 2006

Taking web standards into account when designing a website may not be the primary concern for many site owners, but when it comes to finding an extra edge to improve their business, they are more than willing to do anything required to increase revenues. Let’s see how complying with the Web standards can help a business website.

Using analogies in web design

Tuesday, June 20th, 2006

Jared Spool of UIE.com used an analogy of glasses in the kitchen when describing information architecture of large websites. He also asks the question whether it is a good analogy or not.

To me, it is quite obvious. Otherwise, he wouldn’t have asked the question.