November, 2009
Over time certain conventions and best practices have been developed to help improve the general usability of websites during their design and build. This roundup of ten usability crimes highlights some of the most common mistakes or overlooked areas in web design and provides an alternative solution to help enhance the usability of your website.
Line25 Sites of the Week is a weekly roundup of the most outstanding website designs. In this week’s collection, we have design from For a Beautiful Web, Huwshimi, The Designed, MetaLab and Chris Rowe.
HTML5 this, HTML5 that! There’s been plenty of HTML5 talk around the blogging world recently. It’s no longer a tiny spec on the horizon, it’s due to arrive soon! Some have already embraced it and are using it on their latest sites. Want to join in on all the fun? Check out this collection of some of the best resources from various blogs and websites in the industry. Each one gives an interesting insight into what’s in store with detailed write-ups, tutorials and handy cheat sheets to help you along your way.
Line25 Sites of the Week is a weekly roundup of the most outstanding website designs. In this week’s collection, we have design from Bush Theatre, Jack Bloom, Jason Reynolds, SrBurns and Adrian Pelletier.
It’s common to find an author’s credit and bio at the end of a blog post, especially on blogs that post content from multiple writers. Using a cocktail of WordPress template tags, an info section can be easily put together to showcase the author’s Gravatar profile image, their name, link to their website and short bio.
Line25 Sites of the Week is a weekly roundup of the most outstanding website designs. In this week’s collection, we have design from Hello Kavita, TweetCC, Tracer Media, Koodoz Design and Arc90.
Love them or hate them, horizontally scrolling websites are scattered around the net, and there’s some fantastic examples. Unlike the traditional layout of a website that scrolls up and down, horizontal websites flip things around and scroll from left to right. Sometimes they’re enhanced with Javascript to offer an even richer user experience, such as auto-scrolling effects. Check out this collection of 30 inspiring examples, and follow on to a hand full of brilliant tutorials that give an insight into the theory and practice of creating a horizontal site of your own.