Smashing Magazine: Cheat Sheet For Designing Web Forms – Smashing UX Design
Smashing Magazine has released a comprehensive Form Design Cheat Sheet. This is a great crib sheet that summarizes all kinds design challenges we run into when building forms. Free Download: Cheat...
View ArticleNotes: Navigation Menus and Panels
Some thoughts and links on navigation menus. Drop-Down Menus A 2009 article from Smashing Magazine discussing best practices for drop-down menus and navigation panels. They show a number of good and...
View ArticleGreat Guide to Web Form Usability from Smashing Magazine
Justin Mifsud has compiled a concise and extensive guide to usability and web forms. He uses three main aspects of forms (Relationship, Conversation and Appearance) to explore best practices related to...
View ArticleDisplaying Featured Image on a Page
I finally found the magic words to display a featured image where I want it on a page. I’ve been using the Genesis WordPress framework and struggling to figure this out. Thanks to several different...
View ArticleResponsive Design Frameworks and Starter Kits
There are a number of solid frameworks and starter codes out there. Here are a few that I’ve come across. Foundation from ZURB Foundation is a framework for responsive design prototyping. Smashing...
View ArticleProCSSor – Advanced CSS Prettifier
ProCSSor is a tool to pretty-up your CSS code. You can paste CSS directly, upload a file or pull from a URL. Then there are several ways you can reformat the code, to compress it down or expand it out...
View ArticleA Few References for thinking Mobile
Well, I guess it’s about time I got serious looking at designing for mobile devices. I’ve been digging into Responsive Design a bit and it feels like I’m just scratching the surface. So here are some...
View ArticleCondensing Main Nav to a Single Link for Small Screens
While getting inspiration from mediaqueri.es I noticed a navigation element I really liked from the new Mobilism 2012 site. For the small screen the navigation at the top condenses down to a single...
View ArticleBegining to Design with CakePHP
After reviewing several pages of the CakePHP intro documentation, here are my summary notes on some basics for designing a site built with CakePHP. First, understand a little about the Model View...
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