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Web In Mind .net: A blog on web standards, development, usability and god knows what else

Looking Back at 2006, Looking Forward to 2007

Published December 31st, 2006 under Personal
by Mashhoor Al Dubayan

The end of this year concludes my “learning” phase for Web Design as I’m slowly moving into Web Development (back-end). I was able to achieve three milestones in 2006: The first was the one of a kind Web Design course I taught, the second was my first experience as a freelancer, and the third was something that I will announce by the end of January 2007.

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5 Things You Didn’t Know About Me

Published December 21st, 2006 under Personal
by Mashhoor Al Dubayan

I’ve been tagged by Nadir to post about this. I’m supposed to write 5 things you didn’t know about me until now.

Hmmmm… let me think…

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Book Review: Don’t Make Me Think

Published December 15th, 2006 under Reviews, Usability & Accessibility, Web Development
by Mashhoor Al Dubayan
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What you will learn:

Almost everything you need to know about Web Usability. “Don’t Make Me Think” teaches you how (and encourages you to) make usable web sites - web sites that won’t force the user to think to figure out how they work, hence the name: don’t make me think.

Prerequisites:

Nothing. Just a brain and common sense.

Target Audience:

Anyone who owns, runs, develops or designs a web site.

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Drop-down Navigation Generator Script

Published December 1st, 2006 under JavaScript, Web Development
by Mashhoor Al Dubayan

I’ve recently made a small script that you could use to automatically generate a drop-down navigation from an existing list-based navigation on your web page. The script will detect the navigation with the ID you provide, generate a drop-down equivalent and insert it within an element you specify. Choosing any option of the drop-down list would send you to its corresponding link (as seen on many sites).

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