Archive for the ‘eDesigner’ Category

Issue 43: Guideline of Essential Website Elements

Saturday, January 19th, 2008

Elements of a website refer to a wide range of items, such as content, images, fonts, how things are presented to a visitor, grammar, and more. In my years of creating websites, I constantly see others missing essential elements to their website. In this article we will go through these essential elements.

Website Must Have’s

[eDesigner] Issue 41: Hidden Treasure

Sunday, January 6th, 2008

I came across a script that I can’t believe has escaped my notice until now. It’s call sIFR and it allows you to use whichever fonts you want on your website without the worry of your visitors not seeing your website as you want them to see it.

This has been in development since 2005 and is being used by some big names that you’re sure to recognize such as…

ABC News
Globe & Mail (for individual pages)
University of Waterloo (Canadian University)
iStockphoto
Edinburgh International Film Festival
BBC Good Food

[eDesigner] Issue 40: Make Your About Page More Human

Sunday, December 30th, 2007

Meryl K. Evans at Lockergnome.com for web developers discusses her thoughts on an article she read, “Your About Page is a Robot“, and gives some tips on how to give your website’s about page more human.

“…The About page also gives your company a human touch. What your About page should contain depends on the size of your site and company, as well as the nature of your company. These sites I reviewed didn’t need anything elaborate as Ask.com’s About page…”

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