It’s Nothing to do With the Technology (Part 2)

May 18th, 2008 dr.richard Posted in Website design 1 Comment »

The saga completes tomorrow!

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It’s Nothing to do With the Technology (Part 1)

May 18th, 2008 dr.richard Posted in Website design No Comments »

What happens next? Tune in to Part 2 Tomorrow…

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Website Geography Like Indiana Jones

April 16th, 2008 dr.richard Posted in Website design 3 Comments »

Steven Spielberg talked about geography in movie making in a recent issue of Vanity Fair.

He was discussing camera angles and editing for the new movie Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. He referred to geography in terms of the viewer understanding where they are in relation to the shots and the actors [...]

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Ditch Your Tables and Use CSS

April 8th, 2008 dr.richard Posted in Website design 1 Comment »

Matt Jurmann wrote a great summary on reasons to use CSS instead of tables in web design. Cascading Style Sheets (known in web-speak as CSS) is a language used to describe the style of a document: in this case a website. In modern design this is written in a separate file which is often only [...]

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Welcome (Back) To My Site

April 8th, 2008 dr.richard Posted in Website design 1 Comment »

What are you doing to welcome visitors back to your site? With today’s technology you can easily track return visitors and present them with a different experience to people who see your site for the first-time. You can do things like this:

Take them straight to the content that they are interested in
Show them a personalized [...]

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What is a Home Page?

April 4th, 2008 dr.richard Posted in Website design 2 Comments »

What is a home page? Is it:
The page you spend most time developing, or
The page you spend the most time promoting, or
The page that loads when someone types www.yoursite.com, or
The page that people see first when they arrive at your site, or
The page with the highest PageRank, or
Your most popular page?
You might find that you [...]

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What’s Your Website For?

April 1st, 2008 dr.richard Posted in Website design 1 Comment »

This might seem like a strange question. You probably know what it’s for don’t you? My question is:

can you describe what your website is for, and
is it really designed to do it?

Or, is the goal of your website confused by fancy graphics, collections of (ir)relevant information, multi-colored text and visitor counters? Does this sound familiar? [...]

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