I Spy With My Little Eye » Web Design
Determining My Target Audience
dem·o·graph·ics /dim-uh-graf-iks, noun ( used with a plural verb ) the statistical data of a population, especially those showing average age, income, education, etc. In any aspect of design or marketing, online or offline, demographics play a key role. It’s important to know who is seeing your work or your offers, who might be visiting your site, and who your customers are, so that you can tailor your offer to better suit that audience. If you sell a … Read entire article »
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Case Study: Redesigning Graveshow.com (Part 1)
They say “the cobbler’s children go barefoot” (interestingly, back in 1773 the proverb was listed as “The Shoe-maker’s wife often goes in ragged shoes”)… And this site is no exception. I’ve wanted to redesign for some time now, and this current design is just a free theme I found somewhere and decided to use, “in the interim” I thought. Well, its been months now, and the interim carries on. So, taking a cue from Paul Boag and his site, BoagWorld, I’m going to redesign right here in full view of you, my readers, and thereby give you a glimpse into my thinking and my design process. In the past, I’ve created a redesign in obscurity, and just launched it when it was done. But this time I plan to approach it … Read entire article »
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The DEATH of RDFa?
In their infinate wisdom, Google, Bing and Yahoo have announced a new initiative called Schema.org. The aim of Schema is to create and support a common set of schemas for structured data markup on web pages. Now, if you’re new to this concept, understand that the concept itself is NOT new. For years now, we have had 3 competing markup schemas: Microformats RDFa (Resource Description Framework – in – attributes) Microdata They each served a similar purpose. Say you’re the web designer / developer of a library website, and in your database you have thousands of books. Each book has a database entry for “title”, “author”, “publish date”, “synopsis”, etc. To any search engine, web browser, or even any shopping comparison site, its just a bundle of text, just a string of … Read entire article »
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Web Designers vs Web Developers (Inforgraphic)
Ok ok ok….I’m sharing this because it’s “cute” not because it’s TRUE. Well, yeah the whole Designer vs Developer thing is true…both other stuff? Not so much…. … Read entire article »
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CSS: Un-needed IE spacing around DIV elements
Sometimes you stumble upon a stupid solution to a complex problem and its makes you laugh out loud. Anyone who has a love for CSS has a hatred for Internet Explorer. Sorry Microsoft, but its true. … Read entire article »
Filed under: CSS, Tutorials, Web Design
Sharepoint and CSS: An unlikely marriage
Windows SharePoint + standards compliant CSS. LOL. Only someone who has had experience with both these things understands why that “LOL” doesnt just mean “a typed out representation of the writer’s laughter”, but actually means I am laughing. Out loud. At the thought of standards compliant CSS being used for SharePoint. Seriously. … Read entire article »
Filed under: CSS, SharePoint, Web Design