Some of the very best web design and development tools are free. Free as in speech and as in zero pence. We take a look at the best free software you can use to build a successful, contemporary website, starting with the obvious: tools to design it with.
Link: TechRadar
After so many shoddy sites, pop-up windows and forced registrations, the truth is that if people don’t find your website easy to use, they won’t come back. Worse, they’ll tell their friends just how clueless you are.
The answer is, of course, to design everything around the needs of your users. We’ve known this for years, but there’s still resistance to even the most basic usability testing.
Link: TechRadar
JQuery’s UI can add so much to a web page. There are many different widgets that the UI provides. One up and coming star, is the slider. This tutorial will show you how to use a slider to control the text size of an article on a page. This lets the user control exactly the size that suits them, and is also a pretty impressive feature to have on a site!
Link: NETTUTS