1. Using Pre-made Form Elements
Often when designing a web comp we need to incorporate items that are part of the browser GUI. These elements, like it or not, are part of the overall design. So its often many designer’s habit to fire up their browser, find a checkbox, radio button, text input, etc. and grab a screen shot. However, there is a better way. The Designer’s Toolbox has done all this for us and organized every browser’s unique elements into an easy to use layered PSD file. Just keep them nearby and whenever you need a browser GUI element you can…
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Optimizing PDF files for maximum SEO performance
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…
Read MorePlanning and producing web apps – don’t be your own worst enemy
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…
Read MoreCreating Fluid AS3 Flash Layouts: The Basics.
When I first started developing in flash, there were inevitably things that just made me want to pull my hair out. Basic physics, Actionscript vs. timeline animation and embedding assets vs. creating them at run-time were just a few of the areas I really wrestled with early on. Part of the problem stemmed from a desire to go from 0-60 in 2 seconds (and that might be on the high side). I was like Nike, just do it. *** As a side, that reaches my corny joke quota for this blog….so please, read on.
When I jump in to a project…
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