Posts Tagged: Web Design and Usability
Shadow Boxing
This isn't revolutionary, but I figured out a nice simple way to make a shadowed box with a tiny bit of CSS. See the result and the code over at the silverorange labs.
Silence Sweet Silence
(Warning: annoyingly detailed nit-picking ahead) • When a number of us at silverorange purchased IBM Thinkpad laptops last year, we all instinctively complained about the functionality of the audio controls built into the keyboard. At the top of the keyboard on the ThinkPad T30 laptops there are …
De Facto Standards
I was made aware today of a great site called Web Design Practices developed by Heidi Adkisson. As she explains: • “Surprisingly, I found very little research documenting the frequency of seemingly common (perhaps even standard) design practices such as the left-hand navigation bar, blue …
Shoot Your Lists
My cohort Steven expressed his frustration with this a long time ago, but I thought it was worth reiterating. Why the heck does anyone turn off the automatic indenting on bullet lists? By default, a bullet list (also called an unordered list) on a website has nicely indented text like this …
Don't Fence Me In
Recently, someone was kindly complimenting the layout of this site and commented that, had it been his site, he would have gone with a fixed-width layout. For those of you who don't design websites for a living, a fixed-width site is one that doesn't stretch to fit your browser window. Usually …