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6 More WordPress Plugins You Should Be Using

March 27, 2009

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Back in February I put together a list of essential plugins for your WordPress website or blog. Since then I’ve come across some additional plugins that I think would be useful to install and which I thought would be worth … Continue reading

Style Your Form Fields with Icons to Improve Usability

March 16, 2009

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From a usability standpoint, long forms with plain-text labels can be quite boring visually. One way to avoid this problem is to use icons within your input fields to visually indicate what the field is asking for. It’s a nice … Continue reading

Styling Your Forms to Improve Usability

March 2, 2009

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HTML forms are always a contentious subject in web design. As a designer, whether you like them or not, forms are important to understand -  especially so since how they are designed has important implications for whether they achieve your … Continue reading

Why I Dislike Internet Explorer 6.0 So Much

July 25, 2008

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Web designers have to make sure that our designs appear correctly in all of the different browsers that people might use to view their website in. So here’s the question: why can different browsers display the same website differently?