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Web Developer and Designer Resources
Links UCLA Campus Web Publishers Group 4096 Color Wheel – Pretty useful tool to find web-safe/web-smart colors Standalone versions of IE – This website provides downloads and tutorials on how to install different versions of IE on your computer. Very useful fo...
Who is Edward Tufte and why should I care?
Edward Tufte is an expert on presentation of data and visual information and may be most famous for his book The Visual Display of Quantitative Information. In January, 2005, 28 people from UCLA attended the Edward Tufte One-Day Course on Presenting Data and I...
How can I design better charts, graphs and information displays?
One place to start in designing better charts and graphs is with the work of Edward Tufte. Who is Edward Tufte and why should I care? Review: 5 Tools for Creating Amazing Online Charts – Oct. 8, 2014If you have any other suggestions, please add them. Thanks
Learning about CSS
CSS, or Cascading Style Sheets, have taken over the design end of websites, it seems. I’m not that good with them yet, so I’m starting to collect useful CSS Links. http://css.maxdesign.com.au/ – Great site to learn CSS. Straightforward to find available topic...
Web Development Standards - Best Practices
For better or for worse, everyone developing web sites at UCLA abides by different rules. For those of us who build for public consumption, what are the best practices — considerate of time and maintenance limitations — to get a little closer to building bette...
Top Ten Web Design Mistakes of 2005
By Jakob Nielsen:http://www.useit.com/alertbox/designmistakes.html
Why URLs shouldn't change
When websites get redesigned, updated or moved, the biggest mistake, in my opinion, is changing the URLs.Here’s an essay from 1999 by Tim Berners-Lee explaining why URLs shouldn’t change. Cool URIs don’t changeSome of his other web style articles, can be found...
CSS Design Concerns for IE6, IE7, and Firefox
Below is the beginning of (hopefully) an ongoing collection of design-related CSS issues concerning different browsers. For this initial posting, I focus on Firefox, IE6, and IE7.The good news regarding IE7 is that a lot of bugs were fixed. See the following...
25 User Experience Videos That Are Worth Your Time
From Smashing Magazine at 25 User Experience Videos That Are Worth Your Time:We’re all mostly accustomed to educating ourselves by reading articles. Rare are the opportunities to attend conferences or watch live shows on subjects that we’re interested in. That...
Ideas Worth Spreading
Riveting talks by remarkable people, free to the worldTED is a nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from three worlds: Technology, Entertainment, Design. Since then its scope has become e...