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Dive Into Accessibility

Today I stumbled upon 30 accessibility tips. Real life examples and how-to’s explain how accessibility should make your web site better and prettier accessible.

24 ways anno 2006

Like last year, there are 24 ways to impress your friends.

Developing Web sites that stand out

Jay Lipe wrote a shortlist with 12 points for a successful Web site.

If you want your small business website to stand out from the crowd, follow these practical website design tips. If you do, you’ll harvest more traffic, higher conversions and more sales from your site.

  • Know your site’s objectives.
  • Make your on line identity sync up with your off line one.
  • Identify the key three tasks for your site.
  • Draw visitors in with your first two paragraphs of copy.
  • Consider including a search box.
  • Use a tag line.
  • Keep the web page layout consistent throughout your site.
  • Keep text short.
  • Provide a FAQ section.
  • Hang sales tools off your site.
  • Provide contact information on every page.
  • Increase media access to your company with a press room.

Via Usabilityweb.

Writing for the Web

I found a list of resources about writing for the web, while searching on the Internet for some information about it. The list is collected by Jacob Nielsen, the usability guru.

The list contains links to articles about press releases, micro content (headers, e-mail subjects), newsletters, et cetera.

Cheating with Cheat Sheets

While working on a Web site, it might become a nasty problem: you forgot that HTML element name, type of CSS selector, JavaScript function or something else that is slowing down your working progress. The solution: Cheat Sheets.

“Most cheat sheets are available as .pdf or .png-files, so you can print them and use them every day for whatever projects you’re currently working on. We present an extensive overview of useful cheat sheets we’ve found in the Web.”

Get the list of Cheat Sheets organized by Smashing Magazine. Via Naar Voren.

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