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I’m definitely in the camp of people who don’t believe in the fold in web design, and this user testing does provide evidence to support that was of thinking. Designs should still be structured so that more important information is higher on the page though.

I totally agree with this thinking. Everyone loves jQuery plugins, but they can sometimes be extremely bloated for things that can be coded relatively simply.

It is getting pretty tiresome reading blogs that just have lists as blog posts. Every once in a while they may be ok, but try putting some thought into your posts.

A form builder is a regular request for some clients when they are looking for a content management system. There aren’t that many CMS that have this kind of functionality built-in, and even if they do, the implementation is usually less than desirable. If you follow along with what I’ve been up to, you can probably tell that I have been on a big ExpressionEngine kick. I’ve been using it on a ton…

At work this past week, a client requested something that I wasn’t sure how to achieve: a reversed ordered list. So basically, they wanted to have a top 10 list, with the first item being numbered 10 and the last 1. If you want to skip ahead to the demo, go ahead. View Demo Now sure, I could have just written the numbers in as text, but it’s a list, and it’s ordered! Here is an example of what…

Andy Rutledge has created a second design test to show that creativity does not necessarily mean you are an effective designer. The first test is excellent as well. I need to learn more about design principles…

At work this week, there was discussion on how to accomplish something in ExpressionEngine. We wanted to pull in entries that were in one category, but if there were no entries, then pull in from other categories and display that instead. We were kind of stumped as to how to do that. I’m not sure if we were missing some easy way to do that, but we couldn’t think of a nice way to accomplish it. L…

Derek Powazek clarifies some points from his latest post. Again, great stuff here.

Derek Powazek shares his opinion of SEO. I’m not going to lie; I agree with what he is saying.

Jonathan Longnecker has posted a well written article expressing his love and frustrations of designing websites with small businesses. Some very nice points and advice here.