Great post from Jonathan Snook on his musings with jQuery and background image animation, he uses a simple and semantic markup and your average and proper unordered list. This technique would be great for adding cool animation to your designs.
I thought it may be interesting to some designers to learn how I undertake a typical web design project, all my projects follow a methodology. This methodology is a step by step guide that I have created to produce a successful website, my process is split into 4 linear steps:
“Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 covers a wide range of recommendations for making Web content more accessible. Following these guidelines will make content accessible to a wider range of people with disabilities, including blindness and low vision, deafness and hearing loss, etc etc”
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The jQuery SIFR Plugin is an addon for jQuery that makes it easy to replace text in a web page with flash text (sIFR).It gives you a function in javascript to replace text in a web page dynamically with sIFR (Scalable Inman Flash Replacement) text, using native jQuery functionality along with the jQuery Flash Plugin. Looks promising.
“The UK is set for its busiest internet shopping day of the year, with £320m forecast to be spent online.
The internet trade body IMRG says the UK’s Christmas online retail sales could reach £13.6bn ($19.9bn).”
Very interesting post from the guys at smashing magazine on designing the back to top link:
“In this post, we showcase the design of “Back to top” links, a forgotten and rarely used link that helps users jump to the top of a given page. A visitor can achieve this effect by pressing the “Home” button on his or her keyboard; however, not every user is aware of that shortcut, and most probably use the vertical scroll bar in the browser for that purpose. As designers, we can help our users out by adding a stand-alone “top” link to our designs.”
Category pages, also sometimes called gallery pages or services pages, they are a vital part of your website and are frequently visited by your users. The category pages are the main pages that gel together your website and are used to help the user find the content they require from the website.
Video preview showing the gorgeous new WordPress Administration:
One of the hardest parts of graphic design whilst creating a website is the logo design, its often very hard to create an image that truly represents a company and its branding, but if we keep in our minds eye certain principles of logo design you can normally create a suitable mark.