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Archive of posts filed under the Web-design category.

Ways to Speed up Download Time

This page gives a fairly obvious list of things to do to speed up your web page.

Branding the Web

An interesting article on Brand Value and the User Experience. And another artilce Brand Experience and the Web.

An Example of Good vs. Bad HTML

While working on my employer’s web site, I found a document that was built with really ugly HTML. I cleaned up the HTML, used [H1] and [H2] instead of [font size+2][b] and I am really pleased with the resulting pages. The old page had 15,397 characters. The new page has 14,784 characters. Granted that is […]

CSS Div and Span names?

Interesting article at Stuff and Nonsense: What’s in a Name? Let me think about using the same names to [div]s and [span]s. I think it is a great idea. It would be pretty cool to use the PlanetMike style sheet on any other site someone out there is running.

Washington (DC) Apple Pi Redesign

The Washington Apple Pi is a Washington DC user group for Apple computers. They’ve posted details about their site re-design. Very interesting article.

Layout-O-Matic

Really cool tool (ha, I’m a poet and don’t know it!) for creating CSS layouts. http://www.inknoise.com/experimental/layoutomatic.php

Link Colors

Jakob Nielson just commented that visited and un-visited links should be different colors. OK, fine, that should be a given. What about links that are a different color to an off-site page?