Gerry McGovern’s recent post on the decline of the home page reminded me of a similar post I wrote last year. Read More
Web Design
Netflix Movie Page Redesign Causes Community Outrage
Netflix recently overhauled their movie details pages, ostensibly (according to the official blog post) to pull important information to the top of the page, better support episodic content like TV shows, and to make it easier to find similar content.
Read MoreComponents of a Great Website Footer
Footer design has come a long way in the last few years, as can be seen in the many footer design showcases on various web design-related blogs. Creativity and aesthetics aside, what are the elements that make up a great footer design? Read More
Nexus One vs. iPhone: How do the Websites Compare?
Now that the iPhone has a true competitor in the Nexus One, I thought it would be interesting to see how their home pages compared. What is Google doing from an online standpoint to take on the smart phone market leader?
Read More10 Key Tasks For Your Next Web Site
Last year I wrote about 12 essential web site building blocks – things that you should check when you take on responsibility for a new web site, or even just launch one.
Well, this year I’ve come up with a few more, mostly as a reminder to me for the next site that I’ll be running. Read More
Website Navigation Then and Now
I recently came across a collection of website navigation bars from a few years ago. I couldn’t help but wonder how those navbars looked today, and how the impact of site growth, redesigns, branding updates, etc. have affected them.
Read MoreLanding Page Optimization with A/B Testing
Like many online games, Warrior Epic has a landing page to which we direct traffic from our web marketing campaigns. Luckily for us, our first landing page actually turned out to have a surprisingly good conversion rate.
Read More10 Quick and Dirty Ways to Lay Out a List of Links
The best way to lay out a list of links — say, like those you would find in a footer — is typically to code them as an HTML list and use CSS for the presentation.
The Value of Paper Prototyping
When I was working on the wireframe stage of the NCsoft West web site redesignI began by sketching the main templates out on paper. Read More