Designing a homepage is an exercise in discriminate puzzle solving. You have a list of possible design elements, widgets, and marketing pieces that can eventually make an appearance. Some are critical, others optional. All of them have a certain value.  Read more

How information is designed both from a conceptual and technical standpoint immediately impacts the short- and long-term evolution of a site. Understanding what information is available, how to structure it in such a way that makes sense both to the end-user and the behind-the-scenes interrelationship of other documents within theWeb site, and managing growth effectively can be extremely helpful in avoiding problems down the road.  Read more

Art Posters - Photography Design  Read more

Futuristic Car Design  Read more

The World Wide Web is in fact a global environment, with many languages as well as religions, customs, and ways of life. Creating visually stimulating designs that work for your clients—no matter how near or far they might be requires an understanding of a variety of practices: excellent Web graphic design skills and an awareness of the psychology of color and space.  Read more

Funny cartoons of Obama vs Hillary  Read more

When embracing Unobtrusive JavaScript, behavior is separated from structure, so we’ll be performing operations on the page elements outside of the document markup that creates them. In order to achieve this, we need a way to wait until the DOM elements of the page are fully loaded before those operations execute. In the zebra-striping example, the entire table must load before striping can be applied.  Read more

From a language perspective, there is absolutely nothing modern about object-oriented programming or object-oriented JavaScript; JavaScript was designed to be a completely object-oriented language from the start. However, as JavaScript has “evolved” in its use and acceptance, programmers of other languages (such as Ruby, Python, and Perl) have taken note and begun to bring their programmatic idioms over to JavaScript.  Read more

The WCAG contains many valuable strategies for opening your site’s doors as widely as possible. But they do not always map to common, real-world scenarios. Designers and developers often find themselves following the spirit of accessibility without adhering to every letter of the law, because at the end of the day, common sense will dictate what is in the best interest of your visitors. Some Priority Level 3 requirements are as easy and useful to implement as Level 1, just as some Level 1 requirements are nearly impossible to objectively quantify. For instance, checkpoint 14.1, required for Level 1 compliance—“Use the clearest and simplest language appropriate for a site’s content”—is an area where many feel the W3C itself falls short. They might disagree, and how could you argue with them if they did? What quantifiable measuring sticks do web developers have to rate content? It’s important to dispel the myth that accessible sites must be ugly. Too many designers equate accessibility with all-text documents without visual formatting or decorative images. This could not be further from the truth. Ninety-nine percent of accessibility is achieved within the markup (the one notable exception being accommodating the visually impaired with wise color choices), so even the most beautiful sites can welcome all visitors. The bolt tightening and pipe cleaning that needs to be done under a corporate website’s hood is usually quite minimal. The value that a few pieces of additional markup brings to the table is enormous. If Target had put just a few extra hours of spit and polish into their HTML, they might have completely avoided a costly and widely publicized lawsuit. The rest of this chapter will explore some tactics for better real-world accessibility—changes that will directly benefit visitors without getting hung up on explicit WCAG compliance.   Read more

The Treeview is one of the easiest and fastest site navigation menus. This page offers some tips on how to make the best of it. Very light and semantic way to make treeview navigation with javascript. And it is supported for all browsers.   Read more

There may be times when you want your document to mimic the user's computing environment as closely as possible. An obvious example is if you're creating web-based applications, where the goal is to make the web component seem like a part of the user's operating system. While CSS2 doesn't make it possible to reuse every last aspect of the operating system's appearance in your documents, you can choose from a wide variety of colors and a short list of fonts.  Read more

As important as specificity may be to understanding how declarations are applied to a document, another key concept is inheritance. Inheritance is the mechanism by which styles are applied not only to a specified element, but also to its descendants. If a color is applied to an H1 element, for example, then that color is applied to all text in the h1, even the text enclosed within child elements of that h1.  Read more

Some web designers may think they are perfectly justified in glazing over this chapter. It is after all, about content, not design, or even traditional information architecture. But the reality is that the two elements are fundamentally bound, like hydrogen and oxygen atoms in a water molecule. In fact, their symbiosis is driving many designers to become increasingly conscious of web content—what messaging works and what doesn’t, how people react to typography decisions, how people scan content within a page, and so forth. Every day new research offers deeper insight into how the masses interact with content. Those theories and best practices filter down and permeate the decisions driving how interfaces, navigation elements, body text, and more are actually designed.   Read more

While there are many people reading this book interested in building a new company’s website, chances are there are just as many people looking to improve an old one. Redesigning can be a major undertaking. Depending on the magnitude, it can be as challenging as a brand new design. But listing the reasons for the revamp and the goals the site will accomplish, and then selling the whole idea to your management team, can help make your site better than ever. It can be assumed that any business that wishes to compete in the globalized world market has a website. The medium has been mature for over a decade. College dorm startups, old-world companies (think Ford or Coca-Cola), small businesses, and worldwide mega-corporations have all benefited from and praised the return on investment that a strong Internet presence brings.   Read more