Flash, HTML5, Silverlight, Ajax : le guide pour mieux choisir (1/5)
Quelle technologie choisir pour ses développements web ? Au-delà des discours marketing et politiques, le choix d'une technologie web devra être guidé par les usages. Aujourd
Quelle technologie choisir pour ses développements web ? Au-delà des discours marketing et politiques, le choix d'une technologie web devra être guidé par les usages.
Reducing the amount of clicks required to achieve an action
With the cost of browsing the web
the most costly component of a website is the content
Knowing how to reduce excess images, text and media can be the difference between a 50KB design and a 2MB layout of crippling intensity.
Less is more on a mobile device; less content equals more likely to read.
If your design is simply a modification/adaptation of your existing layout (the first method of delivery), you could decide to hide unnecessary text, images or media
large CSS background images or byte-heavy infographics can be problematic.
Reducing the resolution and dimensions of your images can literally be the difference between 50KB and 500KB — bandwidth consumption that’s worth saving.
With the lack of a mouse and the way our hands gesture to instigate actions and reactions, the traditional interaction patterns we’re accustomed to, such as hovering over a link (for example), is different.
Mobile applications and websites are hugely popular right now. Limitations of the mobile hardware has meant that certain design conventions need to be used to make them a success. Could some of these mobile conventions be used to improve your website design?
ImageAlpha is a GUI for pngnq and pngquant. It allows you to easily generate paletted PNG images with full alpha channel and test how it will look against different backgrounds.
For several years now the 960px grid system (960.gs) has been designers' favorite pick to help structure and design web layouts. As screens and resolutions have gotten bigger, I've found that the 960 grid system does not always fit my needs. 20px gutters and only a 940px content area is a bit too small for the modern web.