by Mashhoor Al Dubayan
What you will learn:
How to make a site look prettier by picking the right design, colors, fonts and images.
Prerequisites:
A good background in Web Design and Photoshop would help, but not necessary (There’s one part of the book though that requires some advanced experience in Photoshop).
Target Audience:
Web Developers who want to make pretty/attractive designs.
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by Mashhoor Al Dubayan
How frustrated would you feel if you visited another country to find that all the maps you need to use for your travels are terrible written/drawn? That’s almost the same thing people feel when visiting a web site with a bad navigation, except that they can visit another web site (or hit the “back” button) in an instant. They won’t spend much time trying to figure things out.
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by Mashhoor Al Dubayan
Two essential things many amateur web designers/developers tend to miss these days:
- Support for web standards/conventions.
- Common sense.
The first might not interfere with the visitors’ experience (it’s still important though), but the second, which these 9 things I’m going to mention belong to, impacts it directly. Even if you completely ignore number 1, you could still apply common sense with little to no effort:
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by Mashhoor Al Dubayan
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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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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