You have to feel pretty good when the vendor that is pitching you is apologizing for its own website after looking at yours. “Went wild with praise” is the operative term in the email thread below.
Nice work design team!
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Cc: (EVP)
Subject: IOA Web Design has the [...]
Here’s a font resource that I heard about at DrupalCon:
Typekit – The easiest way to use Real Fonts on your website
Description from their website:
Typekit is the easiest way to use real fonts on the web. It’s a subscription-based service for linking [...]
Came across Protovis as I was thinking about different ways to report financial data for EEBA. There’s a good gallery of examples. Some of the examples show the same data presented in different formats. A great exercise to determine what types of graphic best represents different types of data.
This post is intended largely for the design team. Need more fonts?
25 New High Quality Free Fonts – Smashing Magazine
Alternately, check out the Typekit subscription service to get access to Open Type fonts.
A good primer to implementing ‘progress indicators’ in interface design. Includes discussion on different uses of progress indicators (not just for store checkouts), best practices, and when not to use them.
Progress Trackers in Web Design: Examples and Best Practices – Smashing Magazine
An article that questions the theory of making sure all content shows up above the fold.
Over the last 6 years we’ve watched over 800 user testing sessions between us and on only 3 occasions have we seen the page fold as a barrier to users getting to the content they want.
The myth of the page fold: [...]
It’s been just about 5 months since we re-launched the Dayspring website with a fresh design and a custom content management system. We’ve gotten quite a few positive comments on the site’s clean, precise look.
But how has the site performed? Sure it’s a laudable goal to make the Web more beautiful, but, [...]
Janet recently found a site that is using non-standard fonts for most of their text. As we explored the site to figure out how they were doing this, we found Cufon. Cufon allows for text replacement similar to sIFR, but without the use of Flash. This opens up design possibilities using more fonts without making [...]
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