Posts Tagged ‘Web Design’

Adobe Flash: Alternative to W3 Standards Compliance

Wednesday, November 12th, 2008


Adobe Flash is a great web design tool. One of the big benefits of Flash is the ability to produce content that works on any browser, as long as the user has the free Adobe Flash Player. It also allows for a great video streaming platform as well as much more functionality than HTML on its own can provide. As Google and other search engines begin to implement the ability to parse and read these Flash websites, what really are the disadvantages and advantages to them? Many designers pass up Flash for newer Javascript(usually in the form of AJAX) or PHP technologies, typically for the reason that Flash is largely not searchable by search engines. So let’s take a look at the advantages and disadvantages of Flash and see if it really is still a technology to avoid. (more…)

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Designing for the Mobile ‘Net: 3 Quick Steps to Better Looking, Faster Mobile Designs

Saturday, October 18th, 2008

With the increased popularity of smart phones that feature wi-fi and 3G network capabilities, it’s becoming more important to design for these devices. Most of them have screen resolutions similar to the iPhone, which is 320×240 pixels. That makes for a lot of pixels crammed into those 3-3.5 inch screens, and the way they handle websites (showing the whole site first and allowing for zoom) can make them difficult to work with. So here are three quick things you can do to make your mobile site more practical and cleaner looking. (more…)

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