July 25, 2005

PDF Book - Research-Based Web Design & Usability Guidelines

FREE Download - full 128 pages book :
Research-Based Web Design & Usability Guidelines from http://usability.gov/pdfs/

Guidelines by Chapter

Chapter 01 – Design Process and Evaluation (6 pages)
Chapter 02 – Optimizing the User Experience (6 pages)
Chapter 03 – Accessibility (4 pages)
Chapter 04 – Hardware and Software (3 pages)
Chapter 05 – The Homepage (5 pages)
Chapter 06 – Page Layout (6 pages)
Chapter 07 – Navigation (6 pages)
Chapter 08 – Scrolling and Paging (3 pages)
Chapter 09 – Headings, Titles, and Labels (5 pages)
Chapter 10 – Links (8 pages)
Chapter 11 – Text Appearance (4 pages)
Chapter 12 – Lists (4 pages)
Chapter 13 – Screen-based Controls (Widgets) (10 pages)
Chapter 14 – Graphics, Images, and Multimedia (7 pages)
Chapter 15 – Writing Web Content (5 pages)
Chapter 16 – Content Organization (5 pages)
Chapter 17 – Search (4 pages)

July 21, 2005

Essential Bookmarks

Essential Bookmarks - Links to great webdesign resources

Topics include:

CSS
XHTML
PHP
Usability
Accessibility
Design
Inspiration
SEO
RSS
Validation
Miscellaneous

July 18, 2005

Styling even more form controls | 456 Berea Street

A question that is frequently asked in forums like the css-discuss mailing list is how to style form controls in a consistent way across platforms. Most of the time, the question is asked by someone who has just tried to do that, and noticed the difference in rendering across browsers and operating systems.

Styling even more form controls | 456 Berea Street