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Django, Ruby on Rails, Node.js, Laravel, Drupal—what do these platforms have that WordPress lacks? A template language.
If you’re considering ECommerce options in general, and especially WordPress ECommerce in particular, you may find yourself asking whether WooCommerce or Jigoshop is the best fit for your online storefront. Maybe these are the only two ECommerce solutions you’re considering, and just maybe you’re not even interested in reading a lengthy article comparing and contrasting and delving into the minutia of what are still two very similar options. If you’re merely looking for an anonymous opinion, or just the sort of person who likes to know the ending ahead of time, well, I’ll save the suspense:
Design helps the systems of daily life run smoothly, letting users and readers ignore how things are put together. Design should sometimes announce itself in order to shed light on the system, exposing its construction, identity, personality, and politics.
An “affordance” is a perceived signal or clue that an object may be used to perform a particular action. A chair sits at around knee height and appears to provide support. It affords sitting. A toothbrush has a handle a little longer than the human palm. It affords gripping. via Pocket
The long awaited follow-up to our all-time bestsellerThinking with Type is here. Type on Screen is the definitive guide to using classic typographic concepts of form and structure to make dynamic compositions for screen-based applications. Covering a broad range of technologies, from electronic publications and websites to videos and mobile devices, this hands-on primer presents the latest information available to help designers make critical creative decisions, including how to choose typefaces for the screen, how to style beautiful, functional text and navigation, how to apply principles of animation to text, and how to generate new forms and experiences with code-based operations. Type on Screen is an essential design tool for anyone seeking clear and focused guidance about typography for the digital age.
If you think it’s crowded now, just wait! The Web is heading toward its own year-end calamity unless some skillful maneuvering is applied — quickly.
Animations are seen in many web sites throughout the Internet. Ease of use is considered as a possible reason for the growing use such multimedia feature in designing of web sites. While animations are ubiquitous in the Web environment, there is an inadequate understanding of its effect on user's attention. Animations are advantages of information technology for web designers, but important questions remain about whether animations work in all situations and for all users. Focusing on web animation, this paper reviews literature and at the end it extracts guide lines for better designing of websites.
The Interaction Design Lab is the research laboratory of the Interface Design programme at the University of Applied Sciences in Potsdam, Germany. The lab is a space for international interaction design experts from industry and academia. It provides an interface between education, research and development, transfer of technology, design and knowledge and provides a space for multi-disciplinary projects.
This standard outlines the requirements and recommendations for making BBC websites accessible with respect to editorial content and user experience. Other technical aspects of accessibility are covered in the technical standards, e.g. Semantic Mark-up, CSS, Javascript, XHTML, etc. Other aspects of accessibility are covered in separate standards, e.g. subtitles, use of colour, flicker and movement, games, keyboard access, text equivalents, text links etc.
Polymer is a library that uses the latest web technologies to let you create custom HTML elements. Build anything from a button to a complete application as an encapsulated, reusable element that works across desktop and mobile.
Listed below are our design principles and examples of how we’ve used them so far. These build on, and add to, our original 7 digital principles.
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Today is Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD). To celebrate and to help promote accessibility, here are 10 simple accessibility tips that most anyone can implement today into their web site’s HTML and CSS to make it more accessible.
Most people today can hardly conceive of life without the internet. Some have argued that no other single invention has been more revolutionary since Gutenberg's printing press in the 1400s. Now, at the click of a mouse, the world can be "at your fingertips"—that is, if you can use a mouse... and see the screen... and hear the audio—in other words, if you don't have a disability of any kind.
This introduction should help you understand how people with disabilities use the web, the frustrations they feel when they cannot access the web, and what you can do to make your sites more accessible.