Tag: Development
Improving Your Process: Web Branding Style Guide
Branding is a very involved process that can really make or break a company image. A strong brand can help propel a client to the next level, while a brand that is lacking will hold it back from reaching full potential. A brand guide for the Web can be very helpful with the continuity of your design.
Posted: May 07, 2007
Improving Your Process: Site Planning Guides
Sometimes improving your process not only helps yourself, it can benefit your clients as well. Using your time more effectively allows a client to receive more time and effort from you focused on enhancing the project as opposed to spending time resolving miscommunication. Site planning guides are a good way to use direct client input to help steer your project.
Posted: April 09, 2007
Using SciTE with TextMate Style Snippets
SciTE is a very powerful and capable editor. Using a Snippets plugin developed by Mitchell, you’re able to mimic some of the functionality that has made TextMate as popular as it is.
Posted: March 12, 2007
Improving Your Process: CSS Techniques Part 1
This group of tips revolves around some CSS techniques I find myself using constantly. I’m sure you’ve heard of some, if not all, but hopefully something comes across as new and possibly helpful. This list consists of just a few ideas I keep in mind while developing, and there are more to come in future articles.
Posted: February 26, 2007
Source Order Can Create Usability Disasters
Source order is often overlooked, but can have disastrous effects on usability.
Posted: February 12, 2007
My Development and Design Process
Inspired by a post put together from Jonathan Snook, here’s a look into my development process.
Posted: January 29, 2007
Admiration for Typography on the Web
It’s been said that Web design is 95% typography, and I can definitely agree with that. Many times a site design could be improved extensively with a quick change of a font-family. Keeping that in mind, how does one decide on a good looking font-family for their design? First and foremost, if you’re primarily a […]
Posted: January 01, 2007
The Best Browser Extensions for Web Development
The Web Developer Extension and Firebug extension have proved to be most valuable to me when developing for the Web. Here’s an account of the features I find myself using every day in hopes that I can pass some information along to those who may not make use of these features.
Posted: December 11, 2006
Prioritizing Web Usability: Book Review
Prioritizing Web Usability by Jakob Nielsen and Hoa Loranger is a really valuable resource for anyone in the business of Web. The statistical data backing up the entire book really gets their message across and I definitely recommend this book.
Posted: November 20, 2006
The Pros and Cons of the base Tag
The base tag can be both a good thing and a bad thing in certain circumstances… personally I prefer to define a base URI using a different method;
Posted: November 13, 2006