29digital are pleased to announce that a new article by our Lead Developer Matthew Pennell has been added to the site, examining the state of 19 of the leading UK banks and building societies’ websites and how accessible they are to users with disabilities.
Running a website is just like owning a specialist shop outside of the city centre – occasionally people will wander in when they’re passing, but usually your customers have to know where you are before they’ll come to visit. And, like a specialist shop, you have to undertake a certain amount of promotion to drum up business. This article explores some of the possibilities for doing so online.
Many developers who have experimented with DOM-based Javascript will be familiar with the show/hide trick; in this article we are going to go further and re-arrange the elements of the page, creating extra DIVs where necessary, using DOM-based Javascript.
It is undoubtedly one of the best choices to make to run a simple blog, but how does it compare to the bigger purpose-built CMS when it comes to running a commercial e-commerce website?
One basic principle of interaction design is that the larger the link you’re trying to click on, the easier it is to click it. With this in mind, if you are using text-based links (for example in a navigation bar), the actual ‘clickable’ area should be as large as possible.
If you are in the web design game, it is a sure bet that sooner or later you are going to want to add an element of interactivity to your site.
And once you start down that road, there is one thing you simply cannot do without: the humble button.