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What Will Web Design Look Like In 2006?

Thursday, December 22nd, 2005

The Continuation of “Big”
While some people are hoping the Fisher Price look of websites will be going out the window, designers like Garrett Dimon tend to disagree. Garrett defines Big as:

Big fonts.
Big logos
Big form fields
Big buttons

In 2005, several websites sported the Big look. One of those sites was Flock. Before their public launch of their [...]

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What Will SEO Look Like In 2006?

Monday, December 19th, 2005

Link exchanges are all but dead, buying links from link brokers are now a big no-no, and setting up a directory will surely get you nowhere. So what’s an SEO to do? Build a good website!
In a recent interview, SEO guru, Roger Montti, discussed several examples of the best type of SEO. He started off [...]

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Transitional vs. Strict Markup

Tuesday, December 13th, 2005

24 Ways has an excellent article on Transitional vs. Strict Markup
When promoting web standards, standardistas often talk about XHTML as being more strict than HTML. In a sense it is, since it requires that all elements are properly closed and that attribute values are quoted. But there are two flavours of XHTML 1.0 (three if [...]

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AJAX Best Practices

Saturday, December 3rd, 2005

Alex Bosworth has compiled a list of Do’s and Don’t’s when using AJAX. Below is the list, and the explanations for each item can be found on Alex Bosworth’s Weblog.
Do Use AJAX For:

Form driven interaction
Deep hierarchical tree navigation
Rapid user-to-user communication
Voting, Yes/No boxes, Ratings submissions
Filtering and involved data manipulation
Commonly entered text hints/autocompletion

Don’t Use AJAX For:

Simple forms
Search
Basic [...]

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