Usability

W3C Introduces SKOS - Simple Knowledge Organization System

Expanding its Semantic Web technology stack, the W3C (World Wide Consortium ) announced this week a standard to bridge knowledge organization systems...

0 replies - 1377 views - 08/21/09 by CodeJustin in News

Using Prototypes to Improve UI Design

When we design an application for desktop, Web, or mobile, an important consideration to make is the user experience (UX). To achieve better UX, we need to...

0 replies - 1592 views - 08/14/09 by henrymark in Articles

XUL Based Web Applications. Why Not?

I have just done some support for remote XUL applications in ItsNat (not public yet). Maybe you do not know XUL -  XUL is the web component system based on...

25 replies - 5000 views - 06/18/09 by Jose Maria Arranz in Articles

10 Things that every web author must know

1. The Web is not WYSIWYG It's frustrating but true. The Web is not What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get. Well, actually, that's not exactly true. What you see is...

0 replies - 1287 views - 04/30/09 by mytutorial in News

Lessons Learned From WebAIM Screen Reader Survey

If you have not already read the WebAIM screen reader survey I would really encourage you to head over there and give it a read through. Some really...

0 replies - 576 views - 02/04/09 by Schalk Neethling in News

Internet Explorer 8 - Fix Event Handling, Or Don’t Release It

Something which have troubled web developers for a long long time is the proprietary event handling implementation in Internet Explorer. In IE 8, this really...

0 replies - 3250 views - 12/09/08 by robnyman in News

Pretending To Be The Blind Guy : Does It Work?

So you are a web designer and you like your work. You have the drive to improve yourself so you do some reading about web design. You find out there are blind...

1 replies - 758 views - 12/02/08 by Niels Matthijs in News

CSS And HTML Two Level Menus Take Two

I ended the first part of this two part series with a working two level drop down and fly out menu using CSS and HTML. However, we did find that all was not so...

0 replies - 3896 views - 11/17/08 by Schalk Neethling in News

What If Your Contact Form Fails?

Did you ever think about it? Someone types the message, clicks on send and gets the error message like "Something went wrong. Sorry...". Ok, what...

7 replies - 7053 views - 11/17/08 by dzovan in News

Floatitis Part 5 : The Future Of Inline-Block

In this pre-final article on float prevention, I'll be digging into a method which though very interesting, has little practical value (yet). This of course...

0 replies - 1265 views - 11/10/08 by Niels Matthijs in News

BR element sucks!

You know how it goes. Designer creates the design templates or whatever and then developers have their say. Sometimes, it happens that they mess up...

3 replies - 1380 views - 11/10/08 by dzovan in News

Understanding User-Input Validation In Flex 3

Conducting client-side validation is a key strength of Flex. From a usability point-of-view, you want your application to do as much prevalidation as possible....

0 replies - 6587 views - 11/03/08 by Schalk Neethling in News

Fighting Perfection

If you’re like me, you probably often find yourself never fully satisfied with your work — always making tweaks and changes, always finding things you...

2 replies - 2740 views - 10/15/08 by dmitryf in News

Building Better Web Forms: Validation Best Practices

Validation is a very important aspect in web forms development and should be planned carefully. Well designed validation can favorably affect the user...

0 replies - 5680 views - 10/14/08 by dzovan in News

CSS And HTML Two Level Menus Take One

This article will continue from where I left of with HTML and CSS List Based Menus. For a lot of websites having a menu such as the one we built in...

7 replies - 5894 views - 09/16/08 by Schalk Neethling in News