Category: UX Design
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I’m being confounded about an article I’ve read about your logo being an image (and not a background image). You would notice about the differences between the two wherein img puts your actual image on the page and h1 replaces the text with a background image of your logo. You may be using one method…
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Frontend UI Checklist Archive
Step 1: text + semantic tags Convert the mock-up to plain text and wrap each text to its semantic HTML tag write using notepad/simple text editor and save as .html no need to write <html><body> etc… begin writing the actual markup of the module you’re assigned to don’t use <div> or <span> for headings, use…
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From vitruvian to breakdancing: The three frontend layers of a webpage
This week, I’m conducting a workshop on basic HTML and CSS at Chikka. Participants come from the corporate communication, creatives, and content teams. For a martian to easily digest a complicated topic such as a webpage, I’ve used a human being as a metaphor for the three frontend layers of a webpage. Frontend meaning the…
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Android vs. iOS: Context Menu
I’ve first used an iPhone and iPad before I experienced using an Android (particularly a meager Samsung Galaxy Y with Android 2.3). The very natural controls of Android were the static/consistent position of Back and its context menus (long pressing certain items particularly lists). Then I had to use iPhone again and kept on tapping…
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Designing HTML Emails
Designing HTML emails is just like designing a webpage. You go planning your page’s width and length of content and consider its appearance in your target browsers. Only that one of the browsers to consider is IE6! This is just an analogy to the fact that not all email clients have wide support for HTML…