Archive for the ‘Design’ Category

Usability & Accessibility, Lisa Herrod

September 15th

In doing some research on user experience today, I stumbled across this interesting presentation video of Lisa Herrod at Ideas 4 2008 on usability.

Lisa Herrod, of scenarioseven.com.au, gives her talk “Usability is More Than Skin Deep.” The slides for this presentation are available at http://www.slideshare.net/LisaHerrod/usability-more-than-skin-deep

Lisa was speaking at Ideas 4, run by the Australian Web Industry Association on January 30, 2008. (more…)

Awe Inspiring Joomla Designed Websites

September 14th

To help all of the designers out there who are designing sites for Joomla, here are a few Joomla based websites that may help inspire and give you a few ideas of what is actually possible.

It’s great to see websites that don’t look like the regular Joomla websites.

1. Youth 4 Unity

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Youth4Unity

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Joomla Template Designs

June 24th

Nothing beats a uniquely designed website. A design that is visually appealing to the users as well as being user friendly in its interface.

So, when is it a good time to use a template? Should a template be used at all? This question comes up time and time again and I believe that there are certain situations where a template can help speed up the development of a website.

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Semantic Web Design

June 24th

This week’s search engine optimisation tip is going to be about semantic web layouts and how they can help with the optimisation of a website. This is a a very good technique that I use for a lot of my clients. Completely removing all of the design aspects from the website template and then optimizing content and heading tags in the body works wonders and is a fantastic basis to start working on a search engine campaign.

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