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How Visual Design Can Impact your Bottom Line
by Brad Henry | How do you know if you should invest more time and money into creating a killer design? This case study examines how the look and feel of the site can impact your overall conversion rate which can provide justification for a little more investment. View the old site, compare it to the new site and review the conversion metrics that shows the before and after conversion rates. Read More »
March 05, 2006, in Community News | Visual Design
2006 evolt.org Design Contest
by MartinB |
Over the years, evolt.org has had a number of designs, produced and implemented by a small group of admin evolters. We've come a long way in developing the design in the 7 years we've been in existence, including this current iteration, which we've lived with for over 6 months since we replatformed the site last summer. In that time, we've progressively opened up the running of the community. But now we'd like to go a step further and open up the design too. Here's your opportunity to stamp your own creativity on evolt - we'd like you (yes, you) to redesign this site.
Read More »Navigation - our visitors' travel guide
by codepo8 | Your site navigation is what helps the visitors to find your content. Don't make it a technical portfolio but a helper tool. This article shows how the simplicity of real life navigational helpers can be applied to the web. Read More »
Understanding Color and Accessibility
by ThomH | We all know that color can make or break a site. But beyond eye candy appeal, color choices also impact usability and accessibility. This can impact up to 1 in 12 people, roughly 8% of a site's potential audience. The solution is not to use only boring colors or do only simple designs. In contrast, by understanding better the relationship between color and accessibility, the designer can make inspired and creative choices for the multi-device Internet. Read More »
September 09, 2004, in Visual Design
Governing Good Web Site Design
by ideahamster | Looking for a means to judge the quality of web design? A good place to start is with the US Federal Government, which provides more than 175 research-based guidelines. Read More »
June 01, 2004, in Visual Design
How Good Does Your Web Site Look on Paper?
by ideahamster | Even in the digital age, pen and paper play a critical role in creating an effective web site. Read More »
March 11, 2004, in Visual Design
A quick and dirty CSS hack: PNG backgrounds
by notabene | With the expanding support for PNG in modern browsers, Internet Explorer's lack of support has become increasingly frustrating. Here is a way to try to bypass its limitation without javascript: PNG for recent browsers, GIF for the others. Read More »
February 02, 2004, in Visual Design
Where/What Vision Theory, In Practice
by hgquinn | In this second article about Margaret Livingstone's Where and What
vision systems, theory is put into practice. A real world design problem is
analyzed and resolved using an understanding of how these two distinct vision
systems work. Read More »
January 05, 2004, in Visual Design
Where / What Vision Systems and Visual Design
by hgquinn | Neurobiologist Margaret Livingstone researches human vision systems and art. With a little understanding of her Where and What vision systems, you can learn how to punch up your designs and graphics, and get a handle on elusive design problems. Read More »
May 16, 2003, in Visual Design
To PNG or not to PNG
by calimehtar | PNG was designed to replace GIF as the standard image format for lossless compression on the internet. It claims better compression than GIF, full alpha transparency, and gamma correction. All common browsers today support PNG in at least a limited way, and is a recommendation of the W3C.Given that IE for Windows does support PNG in all other ways other Is it time to switch? I tested out all the various claims of PNGs superiority, with mixed results. Read More »
