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5Nov/090

Typography in web design and development

So you've just started a new design and it's already filling up fast with text content; but have you considered all your font options?

You pretty much have 3 options.  Use web safe fonts; i.e. fonts that are likely to exist on all/most computers.  If you're using a non-standard font then you could always export it as an image; or lastly but not least you could use one of the javascript/flash embedding techniques which are becoming rather popular.

Tagged as: cufon, design, embed, flash, fonts, graphic, safe, sifr, standard, swf, type, typography, web, webdesign Continue reading
14May/094

25 Incredibly Useful Usability & Standards Checklists

Is your Web site primed for every possible viewer? How would you know if it was? The greatest thing about a usable web site that conforms to current web standards is that anyone and everyone is able to use it.

Ensuring your site is easily usable by your key demographic will ensure that everyone gets where they need to be, and sees what they need to see on your site, without unnecessary effort or excessive clicks.  Conforming to current web standards ensures that irrelevant of disability or user restrictions (running IE6 counts as both!) means that no ones left out; this is particularly important on sites that appeal to a completely open demographic, a local government website for example.

Tagged as: checklist, help, list, Usability, usable, Web Design, web site, webdesign, website Continue reading
16Apr/090

Jeffrey Zeldman: The Importance of Web Standards

So what are web standards and where do they come from?

Well I have for you here an excellent little video, from Jeffrey Zeldman's BigThink collection. Jeffrey Zeldman is a truly massive name in web design; you might be aware of him from 'A List Apart', 'An Event Apart' and 'Happy Cog'.

It's a little unstructured, but a very interesting interview none the less! Also check out his other videos, as they're also quite insightful.

Tagged as: a list apart, an event apart, big, bigthink, channel, happycog, jeffrey, series, standards, think, Usability, video, web, zeldman Continue reading
   

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'PrettyUsable' is a blog focused on designing user friendly, persuasive and aesthetic web content. As this blog is dedicated to the design end of web production you won't find a lot of scripting banter; but if you look closely you'll see some squeezed in here and there.

PrettyUsable is run and edited by Nathan Hornby, a London based UX Design professional, and contributed to by other professionals of the web design industry.

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