using pure black as the text color is a mistake Why is this?
Using #111 or #222 softens the page a tad without making it harder to read.
Hypocritically, the text on this article's page is black.
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#12using pure black as the text color is a mistake Why is this?
Using #111 or #222 softens the page a tad without making it harder to read. Hypocritically, the text on this article's page is black.
Great catch. Although, in my defense I'm always looking to save time so I just used out of the box settings on the wordpress "Platform" theme. If you're starting from scratch on your own site, dont make this mistake :)
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#13Does green convert better than red? Performable seems to like red over green. http://blog.performable.com/631526233/
I wonder whether orange would perform better than red. Orange is a striking color, and doesn't have the same connotation of "stop".
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#14This is a good article, if for nothing else besides that button gem which I somehow haven't heard of before. The downside is, there will be a bunch of sites that look the same, so folks will want to do some real work and find their own components.
I'd contest that it would only matter if you're the same as everyone else if it's contrary to your goal(s). What is your goal? For most it would be to get users to purchase something (aka, make money). There's the other upside that if your website isn't radically different from others, a lot of your users will already know how to use it. There could be a lot to gain with a lot of your visitors knowing how to extract…
Yeah, I'd agree. I've seen far more UI design crime done in the name of "doing it a new way for the sake of it" than is caused by being similar to other implementations.
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#15This is excellent, very practical advice. The one caveat I would add which the author glosses over is Test in IE as a high priority unless you have a very tech-savvy audience. Compass/Blueprint abstract away most of the uglier CSS box-model hacks and I agree that IE users can live without gradients and rounded corners. But if the site looks awkward without the CSS3 tricks that don't work on the browser that >60% of y…
>60%??? I haven't worked on a site in a while that had more than 45% IE users... most of mine are now below 1/3.
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#16I was super surprised at how well SASS let me move quickly with coding 3pics.me! The lighten, darken and mix functions make getting appropriate hex codes pain free.
Wonderful!
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#17This is certainly one not-terrible way of coming up with an uncontroversial design quickly.
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#18This is excellent, very practical advice. The one caveat I would add which the author glosses over is Test in IE as a high priority unless you have a very tech-savvy audience. Compass/Blueprint abstract away most of the uglier CSS box-model hacks and I agree that IE users can live without gradients and rounded corners. But if the site looks awkward without the CSS3 tricks that don't work on the browser that >60% of y…
Generally for IE6/7/8 I add Dean Edwards excellent IE7.js, and it takes care of a lot of stuff for me automatically!
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#19One of the most practical articles I've seen in a while, thanks. What are your thoughts on using UI frameworks like jqueryUI or YUI grid?
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#20This is excellent, very practical advice. The one caveat I would add which the author glosses over is Test in IE as a high priority unless you have a very tech-savvy audience. Compass/Blueprint abstract away most of the uglier CSS box-model hacks and I agree that IE users can live without gradients and rounded corners. But if the site looks awkward without the CSS3 tricks that don't work on the browser that >60% of y…
> most of the uglier CSS box-model hacks Wait, does someone still develop for IE5? Otherwise there is no need for any box-model hacks.
There are still a number of DTD headers which can throw IE6 into quirks mode, where the bug still exists.