Archive for the ‘Design’ Category

25 Stylish Website Footer Designs

Wednesday, December 31st, 2008

Footers on web pages have evolved from being a simple section where you host your copyright information and additional links, to a multi-functional section where you can find a variety of site features such as twitter updates, a short bio of the author, and secondary navigation.

This collection aims to showcase just some of the ways talented web designers have decided to utilize their website footers to provide that extra bit of improvement in the user’s experience.

Link: Six Revisions

Essential Free Apps For Your Web Design Toolkit

Friday, December 26th, 2008

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

The Ultimate Guide To Testing Your Website

Friday, December 26th, 2008

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

Use jQuery To Control The Size Of Your Text

Sunday, December 21st, 2008

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