Archive for February, 2009
Monday, February 16th, 2009 by Stan Slaughter
"A user interface is well-designed when the program behaves exactly how the user thought it would."
I love that quote. It seems to sum up the entirety of what a good user interface is. It's not fancy graphics or cutting edge layouts. It's providing people with what they ...
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Wednesday, February 11th, 2009 by Stan Slaughter
Getting the values from a form which has been submitted is easy if you are using a server side language such as PHP, JSP, or ASP.
But – sometimes you can’t use a server side language (restrictions of your ISP, you need to create a CD based demo or ...
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Tuesday, February 10th, 2009 by Stan Slaughter
Tab Navigation can give a very professional look to your web page.
Example
The problem with most of the Tab Navigation solutions available is how messy it tends to make your HTML code. This has lead many people to not even attempt to use them. Scared off by ...
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Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009 by Stan Slaughter
Ever create a web page to hold images that someone else provides ? What happens when they remove the image, yet not the code from the page ?
Well, you get that big red "X" missing image icon in place of the nice image that used to be there. ...
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