Apple iPhone in Chennai

Apple iphone is now available in Chennai. Wavetel communication is selling this phone at a decent price. You can visit wavetel website for more information.
Apple iPhone has come out with 3G version and it is expected to release on the month of July 2008. It might be priced at around 15-18k(INR) and will be having less [...]

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Five main guidelines for links

Even in a promotional context, I wouldn’t recommend using “click here” links, or “read more” for example. Here is a quote from Jakob Nielsen about links (I know, I know.. we can’t consider every word that Jakob says):
 
“Following are the five main guidelines for links:
Make obvious what’s clickable: for text links, use colored, underlined text [...]

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Click Here… Why It’s A Bad Idea To Use It.

Interesting read on why using those 2 words for link text can cause problems.

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CSS Implementation docs

Recommend referencing case studies and live examples of our past
projects to provide clients with confidence in our HTML/CSS skills.
Live examples are powerful and can help garner excitement with clients.
As far as documentation goes, I attached a DHTML guide for the Janus
project put together a while back — It outlines the basic HTML and CSS
structure [...]

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Customized scroll bars

With custom-designed scrollbars, you run a significant risk of creating usability problems.
Still check out the FleXcroll Customizable, Standards Compliant ScrollBar by Hesido
Opera, Firefox for PC and MAC and Linux, Webkit (MAC), IE5, IE5.5, IE6, IE7 has been tested to work with fleXcroll. IE for Mac does not support fleXcroll.
The scroll bar script is [...]

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30-usability-issues-to-be-aware-of

You don’t have to agree upon everything. As a professional web developer you are the advocate of your visitors’ interests and needs; you have to protect your understanding of good user experience and make sure the visitors will find their way through (possibly) complex site architecture. And this means that you need to be able [...]

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Top 15 Smashing Magazine Articles

53 CSS-Techniques You Couldn’t Live Without
70 Expert Ideas For Better CSS Coding
CSS-Based Forms: Modern Solutions
83 Beautiful WordPress Themes You (Probably) Haven’t Seen
35 Designers x 5 Questions
Cheat Sheet Round-Up: Ajax, CSS, LaTeX, Ruby…
50 Beautiful CSS-Based Web-Designs in 2006
30 Scripts For Galleries, Slideshows and Lightboxes
Tutorials Round-Up: Ajax, CSS, PHP and More
Online Generators
Free Design Templates
60 Elegant and Visually [...]

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Online Font selectors

http://typetester.maratz.com/
http://www.designerplaything.co.uk/designer-plaything.html
http://www.fonttester.com/

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Top 10 B2b Sites

Cintas
Dell – SMB
Deloitte
GE
HP – Support & Drivers
National Semiconductor
Staples
Veritas
VMware
Wells Fargo

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Customer Reference Checklist/Questionaire

Overview

What is your name/title/dept, etc.
How long have you been using [product]?
Describe how you are using [product] (e.g. enterprise-wide, single dept, pilot?).
Are you personally a user of [product]?
What’s your company’s relationship with [product vendor]?
Does your company receive anything from [product vendor] in return for being a reference?

Product

What other products did you consider when making the decision [...]

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UPA 2007 Salary Survey Now Open

Every two years the UPA surveys user experience professionals to attain in-depth data about the development of the user experience field. The survey is anonymous and open to all user experience professionals, not just UPA members. The report is freely available to all, and will be ready in approximately three months. Please help us by [...]

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11 Usability Tips

Who ever said that underlining a part of sentence is the best way to reference information? Hyperlinks just happen to work like this, and the fact that they’ve taken off may be an indicator of their usefulness in itself, but one could imagine other ways to reference information. The browser may display a “context” menu [...]

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10 SEO Client Archetypes

1. The clandestine one: Assumes that SEO is evil and does not want to know who he is and what kind of website should be optimized, even if you have to assess how much the optimization can cost. As if you would ask: How much does a car cost?
2. The quick one: Wants you to [...]

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Search Engine Unfriendliness Of Web 2.0

“Wouldn’t it be great if all those whiz-bang Web 2.0 interactive elements based on AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) and Flash – such as widgets and gadgets and Google Maps mashups – were search engine optimal?” I write in this compelling “Search Engine Land” article about the power of harnessing Web 2.0 for natural search.
“If [...]

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Pit Stop @ ECR Chennai

Chennai-based transport operators Parveen Travels Group launched first of its proposed ‘quick service’ restaurant chain — PitStop — on East Coast Road on Wednesday. The brand is owned by AB Resorts and Restaurants Pvt Ltd, a new entity floated by Praveen Travels for the purpose.“We are planning to take the PitStop brand to all major [...]

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Diagnostic Styling

Saw an interesting technique for styling. Find link below. http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2007/09/07/diagnostic-styling/

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Findings From Web Design Survey 2007

Web Design Survey
All, In April 2007, A List Apart and An Event Apart conducted a survey of people who make websites. The results represent the first data ever collected on the business of web design and development as practiced in the U.S. and worldwide.

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Web 2.0 Summit 2007- Videos

Hi all,
This website contains all videos from the Web 2.0 Summit, which happened last week in San Francisco.
http://web2summit.blip.tv/

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Charting/info-graphic solutions

I noted this excellent resource on “canned” charting/info-graphics solutions. It’s worth reviewing.
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2007/10/18/charts-and-graphs-modern-solutions/

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Font World

http://www.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/

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Brands and logos

http://brandsoftheworld.com/

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Section 508

Section 508 is very easy to follow standards itself but is very loose and open to interpretation. Even thoroughly followed, Target would have been sued regardless…
§ 1194.22 Web-based intranet and internet information and applications.
(a) A text equivalent for every non-text element shall be provided (e.g., via “alt”, “longdesc”, or in element content).
(b) Equivalent alternatives for [...]

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CSSmaps

http://www.alistapart.com/articles/cssmaps

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Samples in JS

http://demos.mootools.net/

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