#13369
Alternative Style: Working With Alternate Style Sheets
So you have an XML document. You’ve also been a good little web developer and used style sheets to control what your document looks like. You’ve even gone the extra mile and created several alternative style sheets to show how hardcore you are. Great. But now you need a cross–browser way to dynamically switch between the style sheets.
Sowden, Paul. List Apart, A (2002). Design>Web Design>HTML
#20899
Banner ads are not a particularly useful way of getting people to 'click', but inserting a plain vanilla link just might be.
Baker, Adam. Merges.net (2001). Design>Web Design>Marketing>Usability
#31409
Alternative Ways to Measure the Effectiveness of Your Intranet Sites
When you measure hits on inter/intranet sites, you are measuring overall volume of usage -- how many times parts of your site have been opened. However, hits don't distinguish between the opening of an entire page or a single illustration. There are many additional ways of measuring usage. However, measuring the "userability" of a site is just as important in order to improve usage numbers. But the first place any communicator should start when measuring the effectiveness of electronic communications is to identify the original objectives for putting something on-line. Conducting some baseline audience research upfront to make sure your electronic solutions will be as effective as possible and then measuring afterward to see if the intended objectives are being met.
Sinickas, Angela D. Sinickas Communications (2000). Articles>Web Design>Intranets>Log Analysis
#24524
Altruistic vs. Narcissistic Web Sites
Users are repulsed by web sites that are narcissistic, egotistic, corporate-speak, hard to understand, and difficult to use. Users are attracted to and enjoy web sites that are altruistic, user-prioritized, user-focused, easy to understand, easy to use, and full of fresh, relevant content.
Streight, Steven. Blogger.com (2004). Articles>Web Design>User Centered Design>Usability
#29980
Amazing DHTML: But is it Useful?
Dynamic HTML is not another HTML standard, but is a term used to describe techniques by which Web pages can be made dynamic using JavaScript, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), and the Document Object Model (DOM). It works on the more recent versions of Internet Explorer and Netscape.
HyperWrite (2005). Design>Web Design>DHTML
#21106
The purpose of this article is to openly display my disgust with Amazon and to discuss the implications. On Monday, 11-June-2000, I ordered a gift certificate from Amazon.com. I was going to use the certificate for Father's Day, however Amazon failed to send the certificate in time. So, I drove to Barnes and Noble, bought some books, and bought a gift certificate. Amazon just lost $82.62.
Rhodes, John S. WebWord (2001). Design>Web Design>Usability>E Commerce
#26640
Amazon: No Longer the Role Model for E-Commerce Design
Many design elements work for Amazon.com mainly because of its status as the world's largest and most established e-commerce site. Normal sites should not copy Amazon's design.
Nielsen, Jakob. Alertbox (2005). Design>Web Design>E Commerce>Usability
#26362
Ambient Findability: Findability Hacks
Findability is one of the most thorny problems in web design. This is due in part to the inherent ambiguity of semantics and structure. We label and categorize things in so many ways that retrieval is difficult at best. But that’s only the half of it. The most formidable challenges stem from its cross-functional, interdisciplinary nature. Findability defies classification. It flows across the borders between design, engineering, and marketing. Everybody is responsible, and so we run the risk that nobody is accountable.
Morville, Peter. List Apart, A (2005). Design>Web Design>User Centered Design>Search
#31624
Amex Woes Highlight Common PDF Accessibility Problem
American Express has come under criticism, and potential legal action, for the lack of accessibility of its credit card website. A blind customer of American Express credit cards found that Amex's change in the presentation of its online credit card statements from HTML to PDF format effectively prevented him from accessing his financial information online.
Rourke, Chris. User Vision (2007). Articles>Web Design>Accessibility>Adobe Acrobat
#25942
An Agreement With a Web Designer: What Should it Look Like?
Whether you're spending a few hundred dollars, or thousands of dollars, on your website, you should have a written agreement with your web designer. Here's what to include.
Bennaco (2004). Articles>Web Design>Contracts
#14276
Analyzing an Organizational Web Site 
The Web is still so new that there is very little consensus about what an organizational Web page should be and what purpose(s) it should serve. You will start this exercise by examining some organizational Web sites (preferably organizations in your field). You will develop criteria by which to judge organizational sites, and then use those criteria to evaluate a single Web site, with the site’s creator as your audience. Your criteria will doubtless include elements like the elegance of the design and should certainly include the navigational system and other Web page practicalities. They should also include the fundamentals that are important in all technical documents: suitability to purpose(s) and audience(s), content, organization, and tone.
Burnett, Rebecca E. Thomson (2001). Academic>Course Materials>Web Design>Assessment
#14995
This paper discusses the use of automated data collection to learn from hundreds of beta-test users of a web-based industrial product database how successfully the product met their needs. The collected data consisted of web server log data, opinion data from online questionnaires and follow-up interviews, and user profile data from telerecruiting and online registration was also collected. In the Proceedings of the 1998 Usability Professionals' Association Conference.
Kantner, Laurie and Larry Rusinsky. Tec-Ed, Inc. (1998). Articles>Web Design>Usability
#20274
Anatomy of a Corporate Intranet Project
Today more and more companies use intranets to communicate with employees and to help them perform their jobs. An intranet is an internal network that operates like the Internet.
Rhines, Becky. STC Proceedings (1998). Articles>Web Design>Intranets
#25430
In some sense, weblogs sum up what's so great about the Internet. Like fanzine editors before them, weblog editors embrace a topic or theme and run with it. Weblogs are a great indicator of what's happening on the Internet and within the web community.
Barrett, Cameron. Camworld (2005). Articles>Web Design>Writing>Blogging
#28446
This tutorial describes some of the main attributes that HTML tags can feature.
Hunt, Ben. Web Design From Scratch (2006). Design>Web Design>HTML
#27326
And Then There Were Adwords... An Introduction
If you have been looking into Internet marketing, you have probably seen Adwords mentioned now and again. Why don’t we cover the basics of the program. Adwords is the name of the pay-per-click system offered by Google on its search engine.
Pires, Halstatt. Ezine Articles (2006). Articles>Web Design>E Commerce>Search
#23929
Un internaute fait très vite la différence entre un site qui vit et un autre qui croupit! Un site qui donne l'impression d'être abandonné, ou d'avoir été conçu de manière trop statique, a peu de chances de générer de nombreuses visites ! Pour inciter les gens à venir prendre régulièrement le pouls de votre site, pour qu'il aient confiance dans la fraîcheur de l'information, pour qu'ils se sentent accueillis, il faut que votre site respire!
Redaction (2004). (French) Design>Web Design
#31888
You've seen reader comments on weblogs and other Web 2.0 sites, but the Atom protocol makes it possible to create and manage such comments in a very flexible way. Flexible Web annotations is an idea that will open up an entirely new class of Web applications with very little actual new invention. Learn how to create a system to manage annotations for anything on the Web, from nearly anywhere.
Ogbuji, Uche and Eric Larson. IBM (2008). Articles>Web Design>Information Design>RSS
#28353
Anonymity and Online Community: Identity Matters
While anonymity may allow people to feel more free and disinhibited to discuss otherwise embarrassing or stigmatizing topics, it can also be a community's biggest enemy.
Grohol, John M. List Apart, A (2006). Articles>Web Design>Community Building
#20986
Anonymous Personalization: Part I
Personalization versus privacy. It's not a question of which will ultimately prevail. But rather, how can we have both?
Allen, Cliff. Allen.com (2003). Design>Web Design>Personalization>Privacy
#20987
Anonymous Personalization: Part II
Personalization doesn't always require that you obtain personally identifiable information about a visitor -- many times you can personalize your Web content by only knowing their interests and preferences.
Allen, Cliff. Allen.com (2003). Design>Web Design>Personalization
#22933
Another Way of Looking at Accessibility
Lorraine Ireland writes about her experiences of learning about web accessibility, having been in the business of selling adaptive technology for a number of years.
Ireland, Lorraine. Accessify (2003). Design>Web Design>Accessibility
#19011
Anvendelighed som Succeskriterie
Normalt arbejder man i en velkendt kontekst på sin lokale computer, hvad enten der er tale om Windows, Kde, RedHat, Mac os X m.fl. men når vi åbner døren til Internet bliver disse rutiner ødelagt af noget som ikke altid er til at sætte fingeren på. Hvad er det som gør webløsninger svære at arbejde med og finde rundt i? Når man første gang sætter sig foran en computer er det som oftest med et mål. Nysgerrighed, at komme på Internet og shoppe, at skrive et brev og mange andre ting. Oftest er det denne drivkraft som får os til at tage de første slidsomme uger med styresystemet som man langsomt kommer til at forstå, og som man på sigt bliver fortroligt med idet det er den platform som giver og adgang til alle de digitale oplevelser. Kan man ikke arbejde på platformen vil man med sikkerhed heller ikke kunne opnå sine mål med arbejdet.
Orgaard Larsen, Thomas. Quark, The (2002). (Danish) Design>Web Design>Assessment
#25691
Those familiar with Apache will be used to the luxury of being able to specify redirects on the fly, without having to write programs to catch errors, and ensure they return the correct HTTP status codes. Being new to Apache, I was amazed at just how easy it is. The following provides an overview of the Apache Redirect directive.
Lemon, Gez. Juicy Studio (2005). Design>Web Design>Server Side Includes
#22975
The Applicability of the ADA to the Internet
As the Internet has increased in prominence in all sectors of society, interested individuals have begun to question whether or not the Internet should be included in the regulations set forth by the Americans with Disabilities Act. Right now there is no explicit reference to the Internet in any of the language of the act.
Bohman, Paul. WebAIM (2000). Articles>Web Design>Accessibility>Policies and Procedures
