Kevin M. Keating from Frivolous Motion (aka Frivmo) has a great list of 50 Critical Questions you need to ask yourself about your website. These questions are essential in order to work out whether or not your site is not only accessible but usable and by asking yourself and your users these questions you are able to tick most if not all the boxes on the web standards guidelines.
Russ Weakley from Max Design has written a very good article/tutorial that goes through the in’s and out’s of design and building a liquid layout using CSS. For anyone who is unfamiliar with the term a liquid layout is one that can be re-sized and adjusted to suit any window size and it does so by using % percents to define the widths and heights of each container in the layout. The thing to remember when designing such a layout is that you need to make sure everything else gets re-sized with it the layout, otherwise you will have a very disproportionate looking website. To check out this article just simply click on the following URL and enjoy the learning experience… http://www.maxdesign.com.au/presentation/liquid/index.htm
Everyone wants to learn how to develop functional drop-down menu’s that have style as well as functionality. So here is a list of some really good tutorials on how to create some dynamic and functional CSS and JQuery drop-down menu’s.
Net-Tuts+ offers a really good tutorial on how to create a dynamic drop down menu using JQuery and CSS. Here is a little blurb about the tutorial:
We will use jQuery to create a different multi-layered horizontal navigation system that is still intuitive enough for anyone to use for the first time.
Want to validate your form but don’t know any Javascript coding? Don’t worry, Dreamweaver can help you with this. Dreamweaver comes with a form validation Behavior allows you to validate your form without any Javascript knowledge. N-design offers a quick tutorial on how to do this: http://www.ndesign-studio.com/resources/dreamweaver/form-validation/
Martin Ludwig from Wepage Design for Designers has posted an article on the website WPDFD called “Eight Rules for Effective Web Forms“, which goes through how to design, create and implement forms on your website using Coffee Cup’s web form builder. It is a very good article, with clear and precise instructions and information that provides a very good insight on how to create a good form for your websites. Here is a blurb from the article and what it is about:
If you’re looking to collect information from your users, there isn’t a much easier or more straightforward method than a Web form. If designed well, Web forms provide valuable information; if not, they may scare users away. With this in mind, here are a few key tenets of Web form design that every designer should know. – Martin Ludwig
VirtualHosting.com have written an article providing a 57 point checklist for you to work out the usability of your website before you screen it to an audience.
Found a collection of some really great tools by W3Avenue you are into learning and developing with CSS. These tools will help you develop and expand your CSS knowledge in a range of different areas. Click below to read more… (more…)
Kevin M. Keating wrote an article in 2007 which was basically a collection of 50 questions that every web-designer and developer needs to ask themselves whenever they are working on websites or are about to publish their websites to the internet. This is a rather extensive list but covers alot of the Usability and Accessibility questions one must ask themselves before a website launch of any kind.
Adobe.TV and James Williamson have a series of really good video tutorials that go how to use Dreamweaver CS4. If you are a complete newbie to Dreamweaver or want a refresher these tutorials are really good to follow if you prefer to watch a tutorial instead of read one.
