30 Quick Ideas to Make your Website Look Nicer As we launch newer projects, it is easy to forget about updating older blogs and websites. In this article I want to present 30 solid ideas you can quickly implement to make your website just that much more user-friendly. Not all of them are based solely on front-end design. I will also discuss popular HTML5 coding techniques which can help web parsers and spiders to categorize your data appropriately. Not every website will need to be updated, and not with every technique available in this post. 1. I am guilty of not always running tests on my website launches, but whenever possible this is one of my favorite activities. The potential benefits you can find are enormous. Read Also: Useful Web Usability Testing Tools 2. We can think of whitespace as the amount of room between elements in your page. You may determine areas which need extra spacing through split A/B Tests and retaining user feedback. Also Read: 100+ Clean, Simple and Minimalist Website Designs 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Related: 8. 10.
Getting Started with Twitter Bootstrap Building a website from the ground up is very hard. Even some people who are able to code in web languages like JavaScript, HTML and CSS would find difficulties in the process. Fortunately, a few Twitter developers and designers are aware of this situation and had launched a framework called Bootstrap to make life easier for web designers and developers. And, in this post, we are going to look into Bootstrap and try out a few of the features provided, to see how this framework can speed up our web development process. Utilizing Bootstrap Bootstrap is a very powerful framework for front-end development, and is equipped with a bunch of features we need to develop a fully functional website faster and easier without having to build it from scratch. Now, we assume that you have downloaded Bootstrap and have all the assets on set including the JavaScript and the CSS as follows; We can start trying out some of these features. CSS Base: Button The Bootstrap style is built with LESS. jQuery Plugins
Better and Sharper UI Icons with Web Fonts If you are familiar with using bitmap image formats (like PNG and GIF) to display icons on a website, then you would also be familiar with its shortcomings. First of all, depending on the dimension and how many color information that the icon has, an icon file size could be very large. If we have too many icons to put in a website, it will also potentially slow down website performance as many HTTP requests have to be conducted by the browser. Although this problem can be solved with CSS sprite, the file size is still large. Bitmap icon also has shortcomings in flexibility and scalability; let’s say we need to enlarge or zoom the icon to a certain level, or view it through a very high screen resolution such as on the retina display; the icon will definitely turn out looking blurry. Well, if you take some of those matters above into account, you probably need to use icon fonts. Using Icon Fonts Here are some of the best free icon fonts we can find: @font-face Rule Demo @font-face Demo Unicode
100+ Clean, Simple and Minimalist Website Designs Minimalism has been a popular website design style for years. It has so many benefits; minimalist sites load faster, take fewer server resources, and are often faster to develop than more graphically complicated designs. Plus, they give a professional, clean impression to visitors. Many people still view minimalist designs as boring. Below are more than 100 excellent examples of clean, simple and minimalist website designs. Rainfall DaffinsonA white background with red accents. Ben Hulse DesignDark gray background with white and gray lettering. Amy Levy PRWhite background with gray and red lettering. Brand Spanking NewA black and white color scheme with gray, orange, and pale blue accents. Frieze MagazineA minimalist grid design. Indie LabsA dark gray, white and sky blue grid-based design. Rikcat IndustriesAn entirely black and white design. The Morning NewsA minimalist magazine-style site. Mark Boulton DesignA mostly black and white site with colored accents. JonnotieA gray and maroon design.
Comprehensive Review Of Usability And User Experience Testing Tools Advertisement Usability and user experience testing is vital to creating a successful website, and only more so if it’s an e-commerce website, a complex app or another website for which there’s a definite ROI. And running your own user tests to find out how users are interacting with your website and where problems might arise is completely possible. But using one of the many existing tools and services for user testing is a lot easier than creating your own. Free And Freemium Tools A ton of free and freemium tools are out there to test your website’s usability and user experience. Ethnio Ethnio enables you to intercept visitors on your website and recruit them to help you with research (you can offer incentives to make participation more enticing). Simple Mouse Tracking Mouse tracking is a great way to see how visitors are actually interacting with your website. xSort xSort is a card-sorting application for Mac OS X. AddUse AddUse enables you to conduct user surveys and user tests. (al)
60 Useful Online Generators for Designers Today’s competitive market makes it necessary to stay updated in all the dimensions in designing industry and designers need all the latest software to be in the top. But purchasing software or downloading a huge one may not be in the top priority especially if it is going to be used only after a trial. In such cases online generators can be of great help which do the necessary job and some tools don’t have to be downloaded also. A lot goes in designing the backgrounds with different textures and patterns, choosing the right colors and a lot other factors. You may be interested in the following application related articles as well. Please feel free to join us and you are always welcome to share your thoughts even if you have more reference links that our readers may like. Don’t forget to and follow us on Twitter — for recent updates. Useful Online Generators for Designers 256 Pixels 80 x 15 brilliant Button Maker AJAX loading GIF generator AJAX Info Background Maker Background Patterns Badges
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Open Source CMS The Psychology of Color in Marketing and Branding The psychology of color as it relates to persuasion is one of the most interesting — and most controversial — aspects of marketing. At Help Scout we believe the problem has always been depth of analysis. Color theory is a topic of complexity and nuance, but color psychology in marketing and branding is typically represented in splashy infographics that rarely go beyond See ‘n Say levels of coverage. These surface-level discussions leave us unequipped to make smart decisions about how to use the color spectrum to convey the right message with our marketing and branding. But why is such a potentially colorful conversation so unwaveringly shallow? What is color psychology? Color psychology is the study of how colors affect perceptions and behaviors. It’s an important field of study to consider when creating marketing assets, building a new business, or rebranding an existing one. The problem with the psychology of color in marketing and branding Try for free Why does this matter?