connecting your site to the social web

... constant struggle to find the right words to articulate the need for change, to describe what they are doing in plain terms, to demystify the technology and bring the attention back to the human element ... in your aspirations for your ecology the less likely you are to achieve them Be prepared to go where people’s use of the tools takes you and enjoy the ride 3 Follow the energy Watch where the ... piety The courage of those who embraced this new freedom to think for themselves ultimately led to the Trang 20Enlighten-We All Need to Grow UpThere is always a tendency to blame the sins of the

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 15:20

... to overemphasize the roleof the Internet in regime change like we haveseen in the so-called “Arab Spring.” At the same time, the behavior of these regimes toward the Internet clearly impliesthe ... software if you don’t want the sitesyou visit to see your identifying information.For example, you can use Torbutton whilebrowsing the web to withhold some information about your computer’s configuration ... division of theweb is by design Media producers, like theBBC, often insist on restricting access to theirproducts to certain geographical regions toprotect their business models Distributors(e.g

Ngày tải lên: 19/03/2014, 18:45

... of tools to help web designers create the best-looking image while using the least amount of bandwidth Photoshop’s Save For Web command (found in File, Save For Web) enables web designers to ... designing sites that require a great many images JPEG, the Other White Meat The Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG) format should be familiar to you from stock photo houses, digital cameras, and the ... above the fold will appear to load more quickly than those that bury their text fur-ther down on the screen A web user waiting for images is a web user with nothing to do (except, perhaps, hit the

Ngày tải lên: 03/07/2014, 07:20

... for the Web Before copying Illustrator artwork to Photoshop, convert to RGB via Illus-trator’s Filter, Colors menu The process is not perfect; web-safe colors may shift, and you might need to ... that the more you tween, the smoother the motion but the larger the overall file size We could blab on about this, but the Photoshop owner’s manual does a great job of explaining everything The ... need to say about that is to remember to start with web-safe colors, keep your design simple so it can reproduce at small sizes (32 x 32 web buttons, for instance), and pay attention to the following

Ngày tải lên: 03/07/2014, 07:20

... browsers to process and posi-tions them for the next phase of web development 251 Taking Your Talent to the Web Trang 2We have now broached the vital next step in the web’s history: the sepa-ration ... pages, we typically turn the sites over to our clients, who then update the sites as needed Websites are not carved in stone; a site that’s not minty-fresh is a dead site How many clients have ... While they do work in most browsers, these tags and tricks slow down web pages and contribute to bandwidth problems by forcing the user to download unnecessary text (namely, the tags themselves) They

Ngày tải lên: 03/07/2014, 07:20

... for other operating systems (All the more miraculous then, that in the year 2000 the best browser on the market was IE5/Mac Arguably it is still the best.) The solution to image overlap is to keep ... <FORM>button on your site is supposed to be orange (#ff6600) and use 12px Geneva or Arial type, by all means create an orangebutton class for the site, declare it on the global style sheet, and then ... a quarter-inch margin at the top She decided to call it sub because the name was easy to remember and indicated the purpose (subhead) for which the class was created The designer could have called

Ngày tải lên: 03/07/2014, 07:20

... Taking Your Talent to the Web 14 0732 CH10 4/24/01 1:04 PM Page 283 Lest we forget, good old IE3 drops the ball by sizing percentages relative to the user’s default font size rather than to the ... a visitor clicks the Send button, the web server itself must process the script. If the server goes down or malfunctions, nothing will happen. Likewise, a web page not con- nected to a web server—say, ... scripts in between serving web pages. Mean- while, the user’s browser sat there, doing nothing. A tool was needed to transfer the process from the server to the client (the user’s computer). Enter

Ngày tải lên: 03/07/2014, 07:20

... change in the status bar mes-sage Thanks to your cleverness, even before the visitor hovers over a link, the status bar at the bottom of the browser will proudly proclaim, “Wel-come to FASHION ... links and other standard bits of HTML use the equal sign As you may have guessed, window.statusis JavaScript’s charming way of referring to the status bar at the bottom of the web page (The status ... address based on the object’s position within the document’s hierarchy, moving from the top level of the hierar-chy down to the details: windowis a top-level object; statusis the object being

Ngày tải lên: 03/07/2014, 07:20

... the page to which they’ve been redirected instead of the actual index page That’s fine for them, but when they send their friends the URL or link to the site from a site of their own, they will ... miss a drop of content, and they didn’t realize they were missing anything In this way their needs were accommodated without disturbing them or any other vis-itor to the site On a commercial project, ... window.locationto send them to that page instead Location, location, location There is a drawback to using window.location Because the redirected users don’t realize they’ve been redirected, they bookmark the

Ngày tải lên: 03/07/2014, 07:20

... take the comp no further than Photoshop; the developers will try to emulate it in, say, Cold Fusion, and show you the result You might ask them to revise their code to bring the design up to your ... and other companies As each visitor hits the site and begins to take actions, the middleware that lies between the visitor and the back-end database begins to do its thing It is the job of the ... But though they necessarily move from one realm to the other, most of the dynamic technologies we’re about to discuss do the bulk of their work either on the server or on the user’s desktop Sometimes

Ngày tải lên: 03/07/2014, 07:20

... sheets They can refuse to install plug-ins, tell the browser to use “their” background colors instead of yours, and in every other way imagi-nable assert their right to see the Web as they wish to ... Hopefully, your client is not about to wantonly add new sections to the menu or demand changes to the appearance of the menu after the site is nearly built In a perfect world, you have followed the ... traffic, the toll on your PC might be noticeable, and the site might “slow down” for your visitors during times of peak traffic On the other hand, if you’re hosting an extremely popular site on your

Ngày tải lên: 03/07/2014, 07:20

... RION 18 YOUR GUIDE TO THE INTERNATIONAL WEB Translation Tools & How To Get The Most Out Of Them Once you are able to actually view the page you’ve accessed, you can decide if you’re able to read ... effort to your email HTTP://MAKEUSEOF.COM HTTP://JIMRION.COM, JIM RION 12 YOUR GUIDE TO THE INTERNATIONAL WEB access Both the sender and receiver must have the same encryption keys, otherwise your ... access to international websites This guide, then, is my small attempt at helping people deal with all of these problems The Internet should connect people all over the world, not divide them Whether...

Ngày tải lên: 24/03/2014, 04:21

... vii 2000 The year web standards broke, The year web standards broke, The year web standards broke, The year the bubble burst 2001 121 121 122 122 122 122 The Obligatory Glossary 123 Web Lingo ... Platform-Agnostic Point #2: The Web Is Device-Independent Point #3: The Web Is Held Together by Standards 27 27 29 29 The 18-Month Pregnancy 31 Chocolatey Web Goodness ’Tis a Gift to Be Simple Democracy, ... About the Author Jeffrey Zeldman has been designing websites since the Crimean War His personal website at www.zeldman.com has been visited by millions Jeffrey is the publisher and creative director...

Ngày tải lên: 03/07/2014, 07:20

... directors are eager to take their talents to the Web but aren’t sure how On the other, web agencies could not find enough good web designers to get their work done The Populi program was designed to ... you wrote to say it stank) Thanks to all the web designers and developers who joined The Web Standards Project Hello? Thanks to Tim Berners-Lee for inventing the Web Thanks to the Web s first ... performing these tasks on the World Wide Web (the Web, to its friends) If you’ve picked up this book, you’re either doing the work already, thinking of migrating to the field, or considering adding web...

Ngày tải lên: 03/07/2014, 07:20

... When web designers make the same mistake, potential readers and customers are thwarted in 04 0732 CH02 4/24/01 11:14 AM Page 17 Taking Your Talent to the Web their desire to use the site The folks ... need to explain themselves Most of us read from left to right and top to bottom; we turn the page We insert the disc or tape and press Play Websites are not so selfexplanatory Consequently, web ... multimedia artists quickly become the basis for sites touting Motown, Madonna, or Barney’s New York Web artists not believe in holding the visitor’s hand They judge that websites can be as challenging...

Ngày tải lên: 03/07/2014, 07:20

... database-driven sites, the visitor must enter this private data before accessing content The data is then stored on a cookie on the visitor’s hard drive, allowing the user to return to the site without ... be your best friend as the Web and your career move forward Which brings us to Point #3 Point #3: The Web Is Held Together by Standards To design websites, you will have to learn technologies ... levels and stored as a series of related files on the web server When the visitor’s browser requests the file, the server checks to determine the visitor’s connection speed and responds with the appropriately...

Ngày tải lên: 03/07/2014, 07:20

... bottom for the task bar, while the top of the screen is taken up with browser chrome (the buttons and text entry fields that allow users to navigate the Web) In Mac OS, the right-hand side of the ... Your Talent to the Web 53 There are limits to how wide a web layout may be stretched before it begins to look ludicrous, but the goal is not to provide hours of “squash and stretch” fun for web ... web users (They’re not going to perform this exercise anyway.) The goal is to provide a site that seems to naturally fit each visitor’s monitor This makes the visitor feel right at home, thereby...

Ngày tải lên: 03/07/2014, 07:20

... painful that truth may be The honesty of these stories enables the storyteller to get well and his listeners to identify with the problem his story demonstrates The prototype web interface parallels ... designers must to make their sites accessible to all Here are some of the things you can to make your site accessible: I Your tags should include text for the benefit of the visually ... www.k10k.net, they seem to respond to your touch—like buttons in the real world Intuitive, user-centered navigation helps as well If the architecture is designed the way users think, navigating the site...

Ngày tải lên: 03/07/2014, 07:20

... customers rather than reassuring them that they’ve come to the right place Good web design plunges the visitor into the exact content appropriate for the most efficient (and personal) use of the site ... lingers in the mind When traditional designers and art directors take their talent to the Web, their consummate understanding of the power of the image would seem to position them as the ideal ... Taking Your Talent to the Web 75 Figure 3.1 The Mary Quant site the perfect combination of solid design and ease of use (www.maryquant.co.uk) The History label is faded to reinforce the visitor’s...

Ngày tải lên: 03/07/2014, 07:20

... baroque as yours When citizens avoid visiting the resulting sites, your client and you can toast your superiority to the rest of humanity and then hurry on to the next failure When bad web designers ... screens, it may be time to present the 05 0732 CH03 4/24/01 11:16 AM Page 93 Taking Your Talent to the Web reader with an arrow (or other page indicator) allowing them to move on to the next page of ... begin to design the site What will people who use this site want to do? Where will they want to go? Based on those scenarios, the site is structured into main areas of content These are then organized...

Ngày tải lên: 03/07/2014, 07:20