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Web Development Proposals & resources

Ady — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 02:53:11 +0000

In a recent hunt for ways to write project proposals I saw a very nice article by a company called Taoti.... I really suggest that you look at these articles and download a copy of the Proposal and use that for the "pre-sales" section of the web development you are undertaking.

Web site testing – WHAT, HOW, WHY?

Ady — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 02:37:20 +0000

Accessibility [Erin & Rachel] Usability [Peter & Marc] Process flow / business logic [Naomi] Code [Ben] Security [Marc] Navigation [Erin] Features / Functionality [Brendan] SEO [Robyn] Speed [Peter] Standards [Standards] Content [Rachel] Each of you selected one of the testing types and will write an entry in your own blog about it.... When two names are listed you should both make an entry on your own blogs and refer back to this story.

CSS Hints – Centering blocks

Ady — Tue, 15 Nov 2005 06:56:09 +0000

To center a block of text (centerblock) inside another block (container), with the text that is in the block left aligned then the following should work fine: XHTML: CSS: Sample output: Note: demo is shown with borders shown to make it easier, and size reduced to 300px wide on the block.

Great site designs #2

Ady — Sun, 16 Oct 2005 15:39:37 +0000

there is a diverse set of sites each with their own merits on site design. Here are a few more for your perusal… 37 signals – http://37signals.com/svn/ presentation zen – http://presentationzen.blogs.com/ ta-da list – http://www.tadalist.com/ Electronic Transaction Consultants Corporation – http://www.etcc.com/ GIS – http://www.geninfo.com/ Plus some css zen garden examples http://csszengarden.com/?cssfile=/030/030.css http://csszengarden.com/?cssfile=157/157.css http://csszengarden.com/?cssfile=/028/028.css http://csszengarden.com/?cssfile=http://www.danleroux.com/newzen/boundtohappen.css http://csszengarden.com/?cssfile=http://students.jbu.edu/fletcherc/zen01/sample.css http://csszengarden.com/?cssfile=http://www.decisivecommunications.com/zengarden/accessibility2004/sample.css http://www.csszengarden.com/?cssfile=168/168.css http://csszengarden.com/?cssfile=/143/143.css http://www.csszengarden.com/?cssfile=166/166.css http://www.csszengarden.com/?cssfile=170/170.css http://csszengarden.com/?cssfile=http://www.chrisevans.co.nz/zengarden/cpe_001.css http://www.csszengarden.com/?cssfile=169/169.css http://www.csszengarden.com/?cssfile=161/161.css http://www.csszengarden.com/?cssfile=151/151.css http://www.csszengarden.com/?cssfile=149/149.css http://www.behr.com/behrx/workbook/index.jsp Any you can recommend?

Example for Mod RewriteRule

Damian B — Sun, 16 Oct 2005 15:38:49 +0000

http://vikrant_labde.blogspot.com/2005/05/example-for-mod-rewriterule.html

More useful sites [esp css hacks and tricks]

Ady — Tue, 11 Oct 2005 07:42:25 +0000

I happened upon these via another site. Some may be very useful for you to help explain what is going on in the CSS and more… http://gallery.theopalgroup.com/selectoracle/ – Selectoracle – English & Spanish translations of CSS2 and CSS3 selectors centering a block within another block – http://www.pixy.cz/css/verticalalign.html wellstyles min height hack – http://wellstyled.com/css-minheight-hack.html lorem and more in other languages [...]

Shared documentation system

Adrian Gould — Tue, 04 Oct 2005 15:22:23 +0000

One possible way to create a shared system for documentation is to use the writeboard system. Have a look and see if it will help. If so let me know and I will create a writeboard for your team. Ady

clean, crisp and very impressive design

Adrian Gould — Fri, 30 Sep 2005 01:28:41 +0000

I was reading some of my RSS feeds when I came across a couple of useful articles that look at design of particular sites. The interesting part is that the site itself has a wonderful clean, almost newspaper quality layout. The site is “subtraction”, and the articles I have so far enjoyed include: Free Form for [...]

Balancing fidelity in prototyping

Adrian Gould — Wed, 28 Sep 2005 14:53:19 +0000

This is a very good article on balancing high and low fidelity prototypes for web design – very useful for you when doing the site designs / redevelopment. Ady

lovers of colour

Adrian Gould — Sat, 24 Sep 2005 02:06:47 +0000

I’ve been having a little fun with the “colour lovers” web site. Have about 40 colours I have added and will be adding more, plus palettes as well… kalgoorlie sunset (0) Comments