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You May Ask Yourself These Five Simple Content Strategy Questions - 0 views

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content strategy questions

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    1. What am I trying to accomplish? 2. What are my competitors doing? 3. What do I already have? 4. Do I have the capacity to create content sustainably? 5. How will the content be cared for throughout its lifecycle?
Vernon Fowler

LukeW | Multi-Device Layout Patterns - 1 views

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responsive design patterns mobile webdesign layout responsive design UX

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  • The general idea behind the Off Canvas pattern is that on small screens, additional elements are a click away, and as screen size expands, they become visible until no clicks are required to access these components.
  • The Off Canvas pattern is a interesting one for me because it doesn't force people to scroll long pages of content and navigation on small screens.1 Instead sections can be separated, labeled, and accessed when needed.
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Best Sublime Text Packages for WordPress Development : WPMayor - 0 views

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wordpress standards text packages development programming coding php plugins Themes

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  • Sublime 2 WordPress Package
  • PhpTidy
  • SublimeHTMLTidy
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  • SublimeWordPressCodex
  • SublimeText2StackOverflow
  • some excellent articles about using Sublime Text 2 for PHP and WordPress development
  • checkout this free video series on how to set up your workflow in Sublime Text 2:
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Improving 404 Page Design | Webdesigntuts+ - 0 views

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404 webdesign error page

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  • As we keep mentioning, a 404 page needs to be extremely useful for the user. There are plenty of ways to achieve this, but some of the best features a 404 can have are:
  • A Search Form
  • Display a List of Popular Pages
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  • A Link to your Sitemap
  • Report a Broken Link
  • It’s better to say something like "Oops! We couldn’t find the page you were looking for.", than simply stating the facts, such as "404 Error: Page Not Found".
  • Having a minimalist, basic 404 Error page design can still be effective.If you have a massive site, such as Google, with many, many possible related pages then a 404 page with things such as sitemap links, popular pages lists, or a search form isn’t particularly practical, and most likely won’t help the user much anyway.
  • A good 404 page can also be casual, and even funny.
  • The second of these two methods can also be used to stop search engines from finding any pages you don’t want them to see – such as your 404 page, your back-end PHP files (such as login functions) and more. Just add their URL to the robots.txt file and upload it to your server:001Disallow: /404.html
Vernon Fowler

Yahoo! Smush.it™ - 1 views

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webdesign performance image optimization compression tool tools

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  • After Smush.it runs on a web page it reports how many bytes would be saved by optimizing the page's images and provides a downloadable zip file with the minimized image files.
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A List Apart: Articles: Vexing Viewports - 0 views

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mobile webdesign responsive viewport web design

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  • web pages appear 27 percent smaller on the iPad Mini than they do on the Google Nexus 7
  • because Apple decided to describe the device’s viewport as 768 pixels.
  • letting go of the notion of pixel precision once and for all
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Breadcrumb Navigation | Usability.gov - 2 views

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navigation usability information architecture breadcrumbs webdesign web design NED12

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  • another option may be a trail indicating the site’s prime architecture, regardless of the visitor’s path throughout the site. The latter option, along with other navigation cues, may be better in helping site visitors form a mental model of the site
  • Research indicates that frequent visitors may be the ones to get the most advantage of breadcrumbs.
  • It is probably not worth the effort to include breadcrumbs unless you can show that your Web site’s users use them frequently, either to navigate the site, or to understand the site’s hierarchy.
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  • The rationale for the arrows instead of colons or other indicators was because “the arrows seem to be slightly easier to understand as an indication of moving deeper and deeper into the site.”
  • Rogers and Chaparro (2003) found that the most effective use of breadcrumbs occurred when the trail was placed below the page title instead of above it at the top of the page.
  • Research indicates that those who would most benefit are frequent users who spend a lot of time on a site and who have had some instruction in the usefulness of the breadcrumbs.
Vernon Fowler

Introducing LESS: a Better CSS - 2 views

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css less web design webdesign NED12

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  • I’ve tried SASS and really liked it, but one thing really bothered me. I didn’t like how all the syntax was different to CSS. Sure, it’s not CSS anymore, it’s SASS, but do we really need to change the syntax of the stuff already present in CSS — why not just expand it?
  • LESS, which stands for Leaner CSS.
  • LESS augments CSS with 4 main features: variables, mixins, nested inheritance and operations.
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  • division, multiplication, addition and subtraction
  • LESS looks just like CSS, and the syntax we picked for the extra features is very CSS-like. This means you can rename your existing ‘.css’ files to ‘.less’ and start using the new features.
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