Articles

Using Images in Navigation

Monday 11th May 2009, 09:59 PM
In designing websites, one of more artistic ways to make a site more interesting to the user is to employ the use of images, as opposed to plain text. One particular area where this can be effective is in navigation elements. There are a number of different techniques employed in creating beautiful, image based navigation elements.
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Flash and Gracefully Degrading Navigation

Thursday 30th April 2009, 06:43 PM
Article describing how, with the use of SWFObject and regular xhtml, you can provide visitors to your site a slick Flash animation without punishing users without the required plugins or browsers.
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Making Use of the HTML Tag

Wednesday 18th March 2009, 10:17 PM
When converting a design to a fully functioning html website, one of the aspects of design that can often be troublesome is the page background. Since you neither know the height that any given page will be, nor the width of your users viewport, you always need to ensure that your beautifully complex background image either fades into a solid colour, or is tileable.
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The Alt Text Attribute and Accessibility

Tuesday 10th March 2009, 10:04 PM
Alternative text is a very important part of a webpage, but this is often overlooked by web developers, who neglect it because it can be difficult to implement. Additionally, badly written or misused alt text can be equally damaging. And this comes at a cost the the accessibility of the website.
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Safari 4 beta Released

Tuesday 24th February 2009, 06:42 PM
As a web developer, Safari is an essential program for any computer that I'm working on. Even though it's not my browser of choice, I need to test any site on Safari, as it represents the user agent of choice (or circumstance) for Apple users, and Safari holds almost a 10% share of the market.
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First Steps for a Website Accessibility Review

Saturday 10th January 2009, 06:40 PM
Without creating a checklist, or recommending any automated tools to get the job done, and trying not to make reference to specific disabilities or user agents, here are the steps I take to bring some inaccessible websites up to speed.
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