Top Blogs To Follow If You’re A Web Developer
Jul/091
Smashing Magazine
Smashing Magazine is a weblog dedicated to web-developers and designers.
Noupe
Noupe passionately delivers stylish and dynamic news for designers and web-developers on all subjects of design.
Dzine Blog
Dzineblog is a blog that provides design inspirations in graphic design,web design, print design, news, and links to help other to improve their design skills. You will find articles on logo design, web design, banner design, business card design, packaging design, blog design, Css, JavaScript’s, WordPress and more.
Web Designer Wall
Web Designer Wall is a design blog, designed and maintained by Nick La. Topics focus on web design, tutorials, and modern design trends.
A List Apart
A List Apart explores the design, development, and meaning of web content, with a special focus on web standards and best practices
WebAppers
WebAppers collects the best open source resources for web developers. So that, we can spend more time on our web development instead of searching for high quality resources. If you are reading this article, I am sure you did not miss this useful blog.
Woork
Woork is a blog about CSS, HTML, Ajax, web programming, Mootools, Scriptaculous and other topics related to web design.
Read Write Web
ReadWriteWeb is a blog that provides Web Technology news, reviews and analysis. It is now one of the most widely read and respected blogs in the world. It is written by a team of Web enthusiasts.
Net Tuts
Nettuts is a site aimed at web developers and designers offering tutorials and articles on technologies, skills and techniques to improve how you design and build websites.
Pagination Gallery: Examples And Good Practices
Jul/090
From smashingmagazine…
Structure and hierarchy reduce complexity and improve readability. The more organized your articles or web-sites are, the easier it is for users to follow your arguments and get the message you are trying to deliver. On the Web this can be done in a variety of ways.
In body copy headlines and enumerations are usually used to present the information as logically separated data chunks. An alternative solution is pagination, a mechanism which provides users with additional navigation options for browsing through single parts of the given article. Parts of the article are usually referred to by numbers, hints, arrows as well as “previous” and “next”-buttons.
Search engines almost always use pagination; newspapers tend to make use of it for navigation through the parts of rather large articles. And there are situations when pagination is also necessary for weblogs. Additional navigation can simplify the access to some site pages — e.g. make it easier for users to browse through the archives of the site.
In most cases pagination is better than traditional “previous – next” navigation as it offers visitors a more quick and convenient navigation through the site. It’s not a must, but a useful nice-to-have-feature.
Let’s take a look at the good practices of pagination design as well as some examples of when and how the pagination is usually implemented.
Additional References:
Pagination 101 http://kurafire.net/log/archive/2007/06/22/pagination-101
Styles for Pagination http://mis-algoritmos.com/2007/03/16/some-styles-for-your-pagination/
Image Optimization for Web in Photoshop
Jul/090
This article on UxBooth describes various images formats that can be used for the web. If you are looking for a basic understanding of which formats (GIF, JPEG, PNG – 8bit or 24bit) to use when… this is a good resource.
Here is a blurb from the article…
We’ve spoken at length about minimizing load time for faster user experiences and why it’s important to do so, and today I’m going to shed some light on how to optimize images in Photoshop for better web performance.
Keeping image size to a minimum is an important part of keeping your sites visual weight low. By understanding a bit about image compression, and how to optimize images for web, it’s possible to significantly cut down on image size while improving image quality.