Not too long ago, Mint, a popular online service for managing your finances, redesigned a great feature which enables you to set a monthly budget and track your progress against it.
Read MoreRotating Text with CSS
If you look up you’ll notice I made a small update to the way dates are presented in my headings. It’s not a big change, but I wanted to include the year without increasing the height of the date stamp.
10 Web Form Design Guidelines Based on Eyetracking
cxpartners have produced a useful set of form design guidelines based on an eyetracking study they did on the signup forms of 4 major websites: GMail, Hotmail, Yahoo! Mail, and eBay.
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Mega Drop-Down Menu Design Showcase
Back in March, Jacob Nielsen made a surprising recommendation for using “mega drop-down menus,” saying that:
Big, two-dimensional drop-down panels group navigation options to eliminate scrolling and use typography, icons, and tooltips to explain the user’s choices.
Landing 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 MoreContrasting Design Conventions
Working on a website recently that incorporates a music soundtrack I noticed that audio and video controls function in opposite ways.
Video Game Web Site Showcase: 75+ Examples of Game Site Design
For such a large industry, not much is written about video game web site design. The only article of note in my recent memory is one by Smashing Magazine which offered some useful insights into good and bad game web site design practices. Read More
10 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.
Get Ready to Claim Your Facebook Vanity URL
TechCrunch is reporting that Facebook users will soon be able to pick their own vanity URLs, which is pretty big news if you’re a business using the site for marketing or community-related purposes.