Archive for the 'Redesign' Category

Redesigned MSN Search goes live

Wednesday, September 13th, 2006

In case you didn’t notice, MSN Search has gone different.

So what does it bring us?

The good

Advanced menu

Now with “Advanced” options you can filter your search results not only by domain and language, but also by country. You can filter by country by using the ‘loc:’ modifier with country code, such as “loc:AR”.

What to change during a site redesign

Thursday, August 31st, 2006

There may be numerous reasons to redesign, but it all comes down to one thing: the site has to be changed. But how must it be adjusted and what to do to achieve that? Let’s see.

Define site problems

Before doing anything, you need to define the reasons for redesigning your website, such as:

  • low amounts of traffic

When and how to redesign a web site

Monday, August 28th, 2006

Redesigning a website is something inevitable. You think of it from time to time and try to postpone it to have a really good reason to redesign. Most probably, you really have no idea how to redesign. So how do you tackle the beast of redesigning your site?

Basic Guide to CSS

Tuesday, July 18th, 2006

Learn what CSS is and why use it from this tutorial and redesign your site with CSS.

CSS background

CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheet(s). This is a technique, lately acquired world-wide recognition, to design quick, user-friendly and good looking sites (a mix hard to come by when using tables). It is used to separate presentation (positioning, styling and coloring) and content.

Designing cross-browser friendly websites

Friday, July 14th, 2006

Sure, designing a site for all browsers takes time, efforts and, sometimes, nerves. Is there an easy way to create cross-browser compatible designs with the least possible amount of effort?

Website download speed and visitors - has anything changed?

Wednesday, July 12th, 2006

There has a lot been said about download speed of websites and how it affects website visitors. But since the connection speed researches are out-dated now and some have broadband, does website download speed matter at all?

There have been a lot of studies on the influence of download speed on the visitors.
Some are really dated, even extinct now (Zona Research, “The Economic Impacts of Unacceptable Web Site Download Speeds”, circa 1998):

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)