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In the ideal web developer's world, we want all visitors to a website to start at the home page; thats what its there for. To smoothly guide your users to the different subsections or features if they prefer browsing, show experienced users where to get the latest relevant information, and have an appropiate way for users to search the page. But that may not always be the case: the home page will not be the entry point for most users ...

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"We don't read text, we scan it": Don't Make Me Think, Krug, 2006. The web is an interesting medium for communicating a message to a user. Compared with say, print, the methods employed to do so are different chiefly because the web has that extra dimension: interaction, hence the reason that translation from one medium to another is often not as successfull as you might think. The other element that the web often has is the ability to travel through ...

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Okay. Redesign is not happening yet. I had set myself the deadline to finish it by the May 1st Reboot, but to no avail. I think the main problem is that when you spend 9 hours of every day working with websites, primarily programming, the last thing you want to do in your downtime at home is feel pressured to design a website for a deadlineBefore India I had a knack for rubbing my eyebrows if I was stressed, ...

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The Beeb have just launched their new site, and boy is it fantastic. I was sitting there looking at the rugby news, and presto as the page loads I notice a different layout. Very, very good work. Take a look.

Guess what! Been working on a re-design again, Oops! Never happy am I. Personally, this time I blame the over-saturation of nice websites from numerous CSS galleries, which I've had to catch up with while I was away, and the fact that my design has been up all of, say, 5 months or whatever it was. But anyway, I'm doing it, no sure when, but definitely cracking it out. What I will probably ...

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Fine, there are only three. Have a look see: SMeltery: Top font designer, also happens to supply 40 odd free fonts, all of which are 'duuuuuude!'. Smashing Magazine: Spending more and more of my procrastination time here now, lots of cool stuff to search through, for both tools and inspiration. The Superest: Heroes of the world do battle, but not in the way you think! Plugin Generator: For all Wordpress people out there, have a ...

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You might have noticed I added a few icons to the side and bottom, adds some nifty functionality and colour to the site. Kindly provided by FactoryCity.

Something that has always concerned me about 'fluid' website layouts is the horrific length that the lines of text can stretch to under certain resolutions. Now I'm fully aware that users with wide screen monitors and similar resolutions do not exactly take up the bulk of the web viewing public, but, as we know from constant blathering reminders, 'Content is King', so this got me thinking about how important the length of the lines in a text passage are for ...

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