Webnotes looks like a great way to annotate actual pages on the fly in your browser. Great way to document for clients. https://www.webnotes.net/
Author: Steve Teare- Low-fidelity Branding
66: Rapid Prototyping Definition
I don’t do static wireframes. I’m an advocate of rapid prototyping in HTML and CSS. Then testing is done immediately online. This just makes sense and is more real-world than sketches of interfaces. It’s a shortcut and goes hand-in-hand with fast site development. Read more about this idea: http://www.uxforthemasses.com/rapid-prototyping/
65: Online Speed Measurement and Ranking
Yottaa is a great online tool for checking web performance. This link is a test of www.pagepipe.com. The home of PagePipe UX. 32.5K webpage!http://www.yottaa.com/url/www-pagepipe-com-4e44800b4b6b2257b000002d
64: Tablet Indigestion
The metaphor of indigestion compared to site bloat for tablets is just too perfect. They make you feel ill, uncomfortable, frustrated, distracted, and painful. These kind of sites really are hard to “stomach”.
63: Page Hijacking
In the late 1990’s, Frames were sometimes used to hijack pages from other websites. This was considered unethical. It was essentially stealing content and rebranding it. I’m not an advocate of this HTML Frame con. I am fan of embedding a web service into a Frame. These services include such things as: Blogger, Jalbum, form…
62: LINKS: Form Processing and background tiles
http://vandelaydesign.com/blog/tools/web-forms/ http://www.onextrapixel.com/2010/09/24/50-pattern-sets-to-spice-up-your-websites-background/
61: Ego Marketing
Ego Marketing is:1. Showing off product coolness. Splash and buzz is like a firework (short.)2. Spends too much of early critical resources on big-bang tradeshows and ads. Burn Rate: the rate at which a start-up company spends capital to finance operations before generating positive cash flow from operations. Organic Marketing: Results are what matter:1. What…
60: Tables for small sites.
Do tables fit the bill for small sites? Tables always work. There is less code to learn, so chances of building it wrong are reduced. Table code is easier to understand. Doing HTML tables is quite straightforward, you have the tags that make things easier to follow. CSS DIVs look the same! Tables designs look…
59: Web Trends 2010 – 2011
http://ezinearticles.com/?Web-Design-in-2010-2011—Analysis&id=4315617 COMMENTARY 1. The days of static design visuals are deadThis is a gross overstatement and idiotic. This author is an Utopian Idealist. Most of the technologies spoken of are still in their infancy and even when they become mature, they will not replace static images in every case. The visual noise generated would be…
58: Another lo-band website deconstructed
A 48.3K home page experiment. Here are the 39.4K of graphic components: 7K bamboo 13.8K stone stack 3.1K logo 15K tile 307B X 4 corners Orange flare 3.2K