Five website design mistakes that are easily avoided
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647
Overcoming Software Bloat
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641
Benjamin Tinker | 2/10/2009
This is all about optimization and code reuse. It should not be forgotten that optimization should always be part of the programmers ethos.
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Programming
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Tips & Tricks
3 Basic Project Management Tips to Avoid Issues in Small Web Projects
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629
James Hinton | 21/09/2009
It doesn't take much for a small web project to go off the rails. We've all seen it. The project can be moving along perfectly with the client and stake holders satisfied with the progress being made, and then, all of sudden, before you've even realised it, you're scratching your head wondering how it got to this point.
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Management
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Tips & Tricks
Producing Effective Menus
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Mike Hall | 21/09/2009
When designing a website it is important to try to provide as much visual support and context as possible to help orient users and to minimize the disruptive effects of jumping from one place to another whilst trying to find something.
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Web Design
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SEO
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Usability
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Tips & Tricks
Sticky Content - Does Your Site Stick?
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Patrick Wong | 15/09/2009
Sticky content is a term referring to content published and used to grab the attention of visitors for extended periods of time. Webmasters set out to achieve a sticky website with attractive content in order to build up a community of returning visitors.
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Tips & Tricks
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Viral Marketing
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SEO Sydney
Visual Studio Intellisense for jQuery
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Matthew Cox | 25/08/2009
Intellisense for javascript was one of the best new features to come with Visual Studio 2008, and now intellisense has come to jQuery.
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Web Development
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Programming
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Tips & Tricks
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jQuery
Get To Know Your Competitors, They Could Be Your Best Friends
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James Hinton | 20/08/2009
When I chat to people about getting a new site built, one of the first questions I ask is: who are your competitors and what are they doing online?
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Business
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Usability
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Web Strategy
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Tips & Tricks
Free Axure Design Patterns
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582
Roslyn Zolandor | 18/08/2009
The main tool we use within our user experience (UX) team is an application called Axure. It allows us to create wireframes, prototypes and specifications for our clients before we start the design and development stages. Here are 4 great Axure design patterns for you to download for free.
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Web Design
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Usability
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Information Architecture
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Tips & Tricks
All IE’s Aren’t Created Equally
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Guy MacArthur | 10/08/2009
As a developer one of my responsibilities while working on a site is to ensure that everything looks as it should on many different web browsers. When I say different browsers that includes different versions of browsers. Currently, there are 3 versions of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer that dominate browser usage worldwide. Those are IE 6, 7 and 8. And unfortunately, they like to show the same web sites slightly, and on occasion drastically, different.
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Web Development
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Web Design
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CSS
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Tips & Tricks
Useful Google Commands / Operators
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Patrick Wong | 29/07/2009
There are many instances where Google or Wikipedia has come to the aid where questions needed answering. Sometimes the answer appears right away within the first results; sometimes it takes time to sift through the returned pages and sometime we need to rephrase the question and try again.
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Google
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Tips & Tricks
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Search
Top Tips to Keep Your Content Fresh
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Guy MacArthur | 16/07/2009
Content is king for both keeping your audience interested and keeping search engines happy with content to crawl and rank for search terms. Here are a few ideas to help keep the content on your site fresh.
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Web Development
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Tips & Tricks
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Web Strategy
Top Tips for a Great Creative Brief
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Emily Berry | 14/07/2009
So you’ve completed the Pre Production phase of developing your new website. All the functionality is locked in, everyone understands the technical requirements of what your site will do, but before anything gets built you will need to utilise the talents of the creative team at your agency to create a visually appealing design.
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Web Design
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Management
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Tips & Tricks
The CheckBox is dead. Long live the CheckBox!
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Guy MacArthur | 13/07/2009
One of the most hated dreaded slightly annoying controls featured in the asp.net arsenal is the CheckBox. Luckily however, there is a quick and lazy way of giving value back to your CheckBox.
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Programming
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Issues
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Web Development
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Tips & Tricks