Posted by
Ryan Nasipak
in Design, Inspiration, Reviews on October 29th, 2009
I had the opportunity to attend An Event Apart: Chicago 2009 this past week+ (thanks Ted & Charles!) and was fortunate enough to catch Luke Wroblewski’s presentation on web form design.
I was pleasantly surprised that one of the most boring topics on paper was actually one of the most interesting of the conference. I don’t know if that’s a testament to Luke’s work or an indictment on the rest of the speakers (who were, in my estimation, pretty mediocre…save Dan Rubin) but I’d rather not dwell on the negatives of the event (for now).
As a designer, the form page has always…
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Posted by
charles
in Awards, Code, Design, News on October 20th, 2009
We love our friends across the pond! DesignFridge UK has included billupsdesign.com among its best Web 2.0 sites of 2009. That’s a pretty nice tip of the old derby. If you have time, visit DesignFridge UK, and see their entire gallery of 2009 outstanding web sites designed and developed in html/css. To view our feature page, go here. Thanks, gentle people!
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Posted by
steve
in Code, Design on October 5th, 2009
Recently I came across a little cross browser bug concerning the “button” element that caused some headaches between Webkit browsers and Firefox. The button element can be a great tool that is generally under utilized. It offers many more flexible options than the “input” element and degrades more gracefully than the “a” element. A great writeup can be found on the Particle Tree blog (Creators of the amazing form creation tool, Wufoo).
The problem I was encountering was when I was adding a span inside the button for design resigns and realized that no matter what I did Firefox was adding a…
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Posted by
charles
in Code on July 22nd, 2009
We’ve been advising clients for some time to optimize their PDFs before placing them onto their web sites. We recommend this because PDFs can contribute to a site’s overall SEO performance. Here is the kernel of what we advise.
Before you create a download link for that PDF on your html page and drop it in your site’s directory, know that there are ways to optimize that file which will actually contribute to a stronger search engine performance for your overall site – and possibly more customers for your business.
If you’ve ever done a search for something very specific on Google…
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Posted by
charles
in Business, Tutorials on April 2nd, 2009
We published this as a whitepaper a while back, but feel it still has the power to benefit any organization involved with planning and producing a web development initiative.
Perhaps the most costly and painful experience for any company initiating a new web project are the planning and launching phases. In the case of planning, different departments within the company (too many in some cases) are invited to early conceptual and business objective meetings. Each person has a different perspective. Each person has a different level of expertise. Personal and professional agendas get in the way, too. Draft after draft, plan…
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