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Tough Decisions
Update: Based on everyone’s response, I’ve decided to leave the site up and running even though it won’t be updated anymore. Maybe someday it could even be revived. After a lot of thought and internal debate, I’ve decided to flip...
Usable Forms Tip #2: Expectations & Feedback
Usability is defined by things behaving as they are expected to behave. To this end, when creating an application or any kind of form, feedback both before and after submission is extremely important. That feedback and explanation could be error...
Capturing Design Inspiration
We’re all inspired by the work we see, and sometimes that inspiration shows through a little, and sometimes too much. A technique we’ve been using for a while at Bright Corner is to screen capture just a small visual cue...
Usable Forms Tip #1: The Label Tag
With forms, there seems to be one basic tag that is either overlooked or not common knowledge. That would be the label tag. Unfortunately, there are still many major sites that don’t use this simple and powerful tag....
Redesign Phase 2 - Information Architecture
The redesign is still happening, and I have some sample wireframes and page description diagrams to prove it. For this phase, I really just wanted to analyze and capture the elements that are important and determine the best way to...
YourTotalSite Turns 1 Year Old
I officially launched YTS one year ago today. It got picked up by a couple of the CSS galleries, and was off and running. Today we’ve got a small group of people helping out, a redesign on the way, and...
Semantics: The Red-Headed Step-Child of Markup
I first learned to appreciate semantics through Dan Cederholm’s SimpleQuiz series. Until recently, I assumed that anybody who wrote XHTML would also care about semantics. Apparently, I was wrong. I’ve recently spent some time getting intimate with microformats, and I’ve...
Labeling Buttons
Let’s get one thing out of the way really fast. I love Textpattern. It’s fantastic. However, it happens to break one of my personal little problems with labeling buttons....
AJAX and JavaScript - Because You Should, Not Because You Can
Every time I hear someone talking about AJAX, I get a little concerned. I haven’t written much about it here because of the fact that I wanted it to mature a little before jumping on board. It’s matured enough, and...
Architecting CSS
The first article for my new column over at Digital Web shows up today. The article is titled "Architecting CSS" and delves into some of the more subtle points of organizing your style sheets, selectors, properties, and more....
Image (Replacement) Maps
Most of you are familiar with image replacement techniques for headings and horizontal/vertical menus, but what about using it for menu or image maps that have different X and Y co-ordinates?...
Redesign Phase 1 - Getting Our Act Together
With the announcement of the survey, the redesign is officially under way. We've divided the process into severl large steps and will be posting about each step as we go along. Now, this first one might not be the meat...
Multi-Select Lists vs. Checkboxes
Similar to the previous dicussion of Checkboxes, Radio Buttons, and Drop Downs the usage of multi-select lists instead of checkboxes makes for a good topic as well. Every type of input has its own unique advantages and disadvantages, but multi-select...
Checkboxes, Radio Buttons, and Drop Downs
Incorrect usage of checkboxes, radio buttons, and drop downs is one of the most common mistakes I come across. They each have their advantages and disadvantages, and their usage should generally be governed by a few simple guidelines....
E-mail Attachments
We've all done it. We write an e-mail, tell the recipients to check out the attached files, and hit send without attaching the files. Nobody really thinks twice about it anymore. We just accept it and move on, but what...
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