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This is the next seasonal round-up of web design articles and posts written by the design community and retweeted on @htmlcut during the winter 2011-2012. This time among the most interesting sections are “Usability and User Experience”, “Forms”, “E-Commerce”, “Mobile Websites and Responsive Web Design”, “Trends” and “Opinions”. Frankly, all sections are instructive and informative and include [...]

Cross-browser compatibility is among the key requirements to modern websites. But there are 50+ browsers out there now. Many of them treat HTML and CSS standards differently. Therefore, cross-browser compatibility may lead to the increase of costs on design to HTML/CSS code conversion (so-called PSD to HTML ), as well as to growth of the website loading time [...]

This is a collection of articles on how to develop an effective website. The roundup can be especially useful if you are planning to start a new web development project and need to refresh your knowledge, “shake up” creativity or find new ideas. There are a lot of resources about different aspects of effective web design [...]

A website is effective when it “pleases” three main groups of the website users: Administrators and content managers; Visitors (humans); and Search engines (Google, Bing, etc.) and other web aggregators. HTML contains a number of tags invented specially for the search engines. The main of them are <title> and <meta name=”description” … /> tags. It [...]

It sounds a little trite or even out-of-date, but it is still true: structured, regular, and comprehensive instruction is a necessary foundation for a productive work and professional career in many occupations. Of course, we know that there are people who have achieved great success without university degrees but if you sift out the media [...]

Here is a short list of recent articles related to web copyright and content theft. Hope they will be useful for you. 1). Understanding Copyright And Licenses http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2011/06/14/understanding-copyright-and-licenses/ by David Bushell : “For professionals, understanding the limitations of a license is critical.” 2). Small firms warned on web image copyright http://www.nebusiness.co.uk/small-business/small-business-news/2011/06/07/small-firms-warned-on-web-image-copyright-51140-28829807/ by Karen Dent : “SMALL businesses are being urged to [...]

After selecting a CMS and creating a website design, the next step is converting prepared PSD image into HTML CSS code and CMS implementation. Here are some general preliminary remarks about this process which can be useful to take into account when choosing a CMS. From the PSD to HTML conversion point of view cutting a design into [...]

Can modern mobile and Web technologies amaze us ever more? The new HTML5 and CSS3 standards imply the answer ‘Yes’ and promise to make our web and mobile experience much more stunning. HTML5 is called to take into account vital needs of the modern Web and solve a number of issues not covered in the previous [...]

“I’m a web designer, and have realized recently that I’m not any more enjoying HTML CSS coding. I’d like to devote myself to design only. ” Sounds familiar, right? No wonder: this post expresses a noticeable tendency – many designers prefer to concentrate on what they can do best of all and don’t want to spend time [...]

In 2009 the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) decided to concentrate their efforts on HTML5, a new revision of HTML, rather than XHTML2. HTML5 is strongly supported by Apple, Opera, Mozilla, Microsoft, Google and other leading IT companies and web browser developers. All this means that HTML5 is becoming a mainstream of the Internet. Now let’s [...]