Reasonably big monitors have finally become the most common class of desktop computer screen, dethroning the 1024×768 resolution that was long the target for web design. 
View Pinsonnault Creative's award-winning logos on page 102-104. ![Social Signals Effect Organic Search [Infographic] | Smart Websites and Graphic Design | Scoop.it](http://img.scoop.it/8mt81YrvLAuV2RpG3F4qCjl72eJkfbmt4t8yenImKBVaiQDB_Rd1H6kmuBWtceBJ)
These days, search is more than just keywords. Off-page factors such a social media play a huge role in getting your site on page 1 of search results. This infographic shows the results of a small controlled test and demonstrates the need to pay attention to what's happening off of your page. Copyediting and proofreading are important to the integrity of the production of any publishing project, yet the two are often confused. What's the difference between copy editing and proofreading? What does each task entail? 
… tests and research are often performed poorly: teams either ask the right questions of the wrong people or ask the wrong questions of the right people. 
Who's ready to stop working for free? Hopefully you are! If you have any doubts, consult this handy chart below. Got a message from Clayton Moore, who's designing his business card . . . 
Last week I listed some websites with the best navigation structure and how it can really add a lot of character to a website. This week I would like to cover... Smooth-flow task performance makes application use pleasurable. But disruptions are all too common due to crinkly design or creaking implementation. ... an extensive list of helpful tools and resources that can help you create great mobile web experiences. Should you say who wrote the content on your site? Sometimes yes (for credibility), sometimes no (for brevity). And rarely in mobile. 
Every time you call a proprietary feature “CSS3,” a kitten dies. Any -webkit- feature that doesn’t exist in a specification (not even an Editor’s draft) is not CSS3. Yes, they are commonly evangelized as such, but they are not part of CSS at all. This distinction is not nitpicking. It’s important because it encourages certain vendors (*cough* Apple *cough*) to circumvent the standards process, implement whatever they come up with in WebKit, then evangelize it to developers as the best thing since sliced bread. The shiny new toys dazzle us and we start promoting them too, contributing to the echo chamber. Videos of Freehand and Illustrator in side by side task comparisons. If you're a Freehand fan, you already know all of this, but it's still interesting to watch. |
The thing is, Google states quite publicly all the time what they like. Unique, interesting, well-structured, quality content. It’s no secret. They’ve also stated what they don’t like, and are getting better and better at detecting it. 
I love having my calendar for the month right on my computer desktop for quick reference. Plus, I enjoy the fun creative break of creating a new one each month. Here is my wallpaper calendar for May 2012 free for you to use. So much poor design has been made in the pursuit of “originality,” “creativity,” and “grabbing the viewer” (don’t try this in person). “The mobile pundits got it right: sites should be minimal, functional, with everything designed to help the user complete a task, and then go. But that doesn’t mean that you need to make a separate mobile site from your normal site. If your normal site isn’t minimal, functional, with everything designed to help the user complete a task, it’s time to rethink your whole site.
Desktop publishing has given way to laptop or smartphone publishing. And Microsoft Word is an atrocious tool for Web writing. 
Did you just love Facebook’s Timeline update so much that you wished another major social media site would adopt something similar? Well, Google apparently did also and has included a conspicuously Facebook-like redesign of profile pages among its... We hope we can illuminate why W3Schools is a troublesome resource, why their faulty information is a detriment to the web, and what you (and they) can do about it. 
Periodic Table of Typefaces - A table showing a list of the 100 most popular, influential and notorious typefaces. Direct mail continues to deliver as consumers' preferred means of receiving marketing messages from brands. -- Epsilon Targeting Consumer Survey Results In her Our Best Practices Are Killing Us presentation at An Event Apart in Atlanta GA, Nicole Sullivan walked through common CSS best practices that have outlived their usefulness and what we can do instead to improve CSS performance and maintenance long term. 
Seven areas of a site draw users' attention the most, according to a new eye-tracking study. Is your site up to par? |
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