Is flexible layouts hard to make and maintain, time consuming than fixed width layout? Is flexible layout means only to give width height and font in em or %? What is main benefit of flexible layout to the desktop and mobile users? And if we make flexible layout then should be give images width and height in em or `% also to images sc...
Have you noticed that almost every links in facebook have ref query string? I belive that, with that ref, facebook somehow track and study their user behaviour. this could be their secret recipe of making a better usability. So, I am trying out the same thing, change http://a.com/b.aspx to http://a.com/b.aspx?ref=c and log every hits i...
Instead of giving "back to top" button is it good to make layout with fixed header and footer for better usability? or this type of layout can be problem for screen reader? Like this http://limpid.nl/lab/css/fixed/header-and-footer ...
Hi, I was wondering if anyone knew the thinking behind there decision to do this: Alot of pages on Apple.com have clean links such as: http://www.apple.com/wifi/ however some of there pages end with .html http://www.apple.com/airportexpress/features/airtunes.html I find it unlikely that these pages are static html pages so.... Why...
I am developing an internal messaging application which is to be used by approximately 500 users. When composing a new message it will ask who you want to send the message to. Instead of presenting the user with a checkbox list of 500 users which they can pick from (i.e they may only wish to send to 20-30 of the 500 users) I wanted to as...
<img src=”young-girl-in-red-gown.jpg” alt=”young girl in red gown” title=”Young girl in red gown”/> Is my above example a good example? Should it be always like this? In above example i used image file name, alt text and title almost same. although it's just a image not image inside <a> Is it ok to use same text as Al...
Is there anybody who knows the history of appearance of Ctrl-Enter hotkey which means "Send"? It is pretty "classic" now. I remember that for the first time I've met that hotkey in ICQ 99, but now almost every IM have such hotkey and many popular social networking sites. Some time ago I was surprised that in the "Commit" dialog of eclips...
As a web developer, it is tough to do web design which is compatible with IE6. Is it required to make webpages compatible with css?. I heard the usage of IE6 is low. My question is, whether I should still check compatibility of the webpage that i make, in Internet Explorer 6? ...
What do people think about using pretend hyperlinks, in Winforms apps? Example: In my example you would click "into" the Organisation record card for Acme Corp Inc or "into" the details of the next appointment. If we ignore, for the moment, how the user edits the Organisation or adds/removes an appointment, is it a sensible UI in W...
Which screen reader would be best to test site accessibility and how to configure that screen reader to test website (or default screen-reader setting would be ok) and which browser should be used to test accessibility with screen-readers? Free or commercial it doesn't matter . Which can give best testing then site should be accessible ...
I'm in the process of redesigning a SQL query builder UI for a application that I use, well it's a third party app but has a plugin model so I writing my own to replace the standard one. One area I am not very good at when it comes to application design is the UI. I would be really interested to see/hear how other people would layout t...
Which web-safe fonts are more readable to eyes as a body text? Which web-safe fonts should not be used? What should be the minimum font size of <p>body text</p> for better readability? What font size should we use for <H1/2/3/4/5/6>, <p> <ul>, <ol>? Should we use same font-size for <p>, <ul>, <ol> and <th> <td>? What would be the bala...
Should we use default web safe fonts as much as possible, should try to make good design with web safe fonts only? Show we avoid fancy fonts in design which would be only possible with any image replacement techniques, sIFR, @Font-face, Typeface etc. for better site maintenance, accessibility, usability ...
I need to make form which will be used to rank the students in a class - i.e. best student is rank 1, next best is rank 2, worst student is rank N (where N = number of students in the class, in this case generally less than 10). What's the best (easiest to use, most accessible) interface for doing this, with the caveat that it needs to w...
I am developing requirements for a new website design for my company. I have noticed that we have a fair number of pages that have only a few sentences of information on them. These pages cover a range of topics that are unrelated to each other and unrelated to other larger sections. I was thinking about incorporating them into an FAQ...
I know this question is pretty broad , but I think most of ya'l had used Content management systems and it is just a question what you really think about it, I sure that you have some conclusions of your own. thanks ...
It is always a good idea to simlified the project relations and also writing code in projects. But as I am not a software analyzer and trying to start analyzing my personal project. I want to know that How To Simplified Project Structure ? ...
I have a dilemma that I've encountered before. What's the best in terms of usability when one displays personal names in a table? Should there be a single column for the name? If so, is "firstname lastname" or "lastname, firstname" preferable? Or would a column for "firstname" and a column for "lastname" be best? I'm thinking in terms of...
Hi everyone, I'm designing a new web application and I'm aware that the process of registration (creating a profile) is really frustrating for the users (also to me) - everywhere we go, people should register. Some may even stop using your site, if you force them to register. The problem is that, I really need my users to be registered ...
What is preferred method to link PDF(with icon) on a page in terms of semantic, accessibility, usability and SEO? for example this is a name of PDF "01ccc5.pdf" but inside PDF this is the title of PDF "How to search in long PDF" Should i use PDF subject as a file name like "How-to-search-in-long-PDF? and I want to show link of PDF as ...