Saturday, September 26, 2009

Visual design for the web: great articles | webtoolkit4.me

Visual design for the web: great articles | webtoolkit4.me: "Visual design for the web: great articles


Visual design for the web: great articles






As a web designer, i am always trying to find resources related to information design, usability issues, navigation techniques that will help me make things better on my next project. Don’t get me wrong, i am always trying to learn from my own mistakes but there’s always someone out there with a great article that is going to help me improve myself. Lately, i’ve been searching for some good new books about stuff like that but before buying some, i searched around the web for some articles. And some great ones are out there. Here’s a list of 9 articles recently found.



The articles:


Communicate Quick: First Impressions Through Visual Web Design



Information Architecture Tutorial Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5



5 Sickening Habits of Mainstream Websites


7 Usability Mistakes Usability Experts Commit

Is your website ready for the 5-seconds-attention-span challenge?

Who’s Your Audience, Kenneth: The Value Of Personas

Designing navigation

Common Visual Design Misconceptions

Designing with data


If you know of any other interesting articles on issues like these, just share with us! Happy reading.

Monday, August 31, 2009

Yahoo! Query Language - YDN

Yahoo! Query Language

What is YQL?

The Yahoo! Query Language is an expressive SQL-like language that lets you query, filter, and join data across Web services. With YQL, apps run faster with fewer lines of code and a smaller network footprint.

Yahoo! and other websites across the Internet make much of their structured data available to developers, primarily through Web services. To access and query these services, developers traditionally endure the pain of locating the right URLs and documentation to access and query each Web service.

With YQL, developers can access and shape data across the Internet through one simple language, eliminating the need to learn how to call different APIs.
How Do I Get Started?

1. Check out the YQL Console.
2. Read how to access YQL from your application.
3. Get your API Keys to sign your requests if you need them."

Sunday, August 30, 2009

Windows Resources

Windows Resources

The Knowledge Base Articles and Resources in this web site are from a growing list in my favourites/bookmark folder. I use them to troubleshoot my PC. On this page, you will find Security Resources, links to Resources that could not fit elsewhere on this site, as well as a Site Map for finding your way around.


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