A little late to the party, I suppose, but here are my top picks for 2005 on a variety of web design-related subjects.
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11 Principles of Great Web Sites for Consultants
Michael W. McLaughlin, the coauthor of Guerrilla Marketing for Consultants, has written a good overview article on “key factors to consider when building web sites for consultants”:http://www.highrankings.com/issue153.htm#guest.
A lot of the points are equally applicable to web site design in general, but together he does provide a good arsenal of talking points if you’re ever doing a bid for a consultancy firm.
11 Reasons to Include Prototyping in Your Web Development Process
In “The promised land of prototyping: Realizing the full potential of prototyping”:http://www.guuui.com/issues/04_05.php Henrik Olsen provides 11 very good reasons as to why you should include prototyping as an intregal part of your web development methodology.
Top 10 CSS Sites
There are hundreds of sites that offer tutorials, examples and inspiration about CSS. In no particular order, here’s a list of my favorites that I visit on a regular basis.
Read More6 Steps to Take Back Control of Your Email
We all know that email is one of the biggest time-sucks out there. One of the main challenges is what to do with an email once it’s been actioned. Should you keep it? If so, where should you file it so that you can find it again? What about emails that don’t fit nicely into one category? How many levels of sub-folders should you have? And so on.
10 Tips to Improve Web Site Usability Testing
Web site usability tests are easy to run and they don’t have to be perfect for you to learn a lot from them. The important thing is just to do them on a regular basis so that you can observe user behavior on your site.
Every time I run one I learn new things about what works and what doesn’t on our site. I also learn how I can improve the way I conduct our testing.
Here are some things I’ve learned that you might find useful:
10 SEO Tips
Jill Whalen has written a nice overview of how to get your site ranked well in search engines – Ten Tips to the Top of the Search Engines. In it, she hits all the important points.
Read MoreTop Ten Web Design Mistakes of 2003
Jacob Nielsen has posted his annual round up of what’s being done wrong on the web.
Actually, many of the problems he highlights are fairly minor, so if this is his list of consistent worst offenders, then the web is becoming a much more useable and accessible place.
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