508 friendly Dropdown Menu

HTML <li class=""><!-- leave the empty class --> <a href="#" id="drop2" role="button" data-toggle="dropdown">Dropdown 2 <b></b></a> <ul role="menu" aria-labelledby="drop2"> <li role="presentation"><a role="menuitem" tabindex="-1" href="#">Action</a></li> <li role="presentation"><a role="menuitem" tabindex="-1" href="#">Another action</a></li> <li...

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The 4 types of designers: Graphic Design (print/web), UI Design and UX Design

What is a graphic designer? Graphic design is visual art on the computer. Think of a painter but the canvas is your computer screen. These designers understand the basics of color theory (or should), choose images and type sets. They may design for print (like magazines, brochures, newspapers, banners, billboards etc.) or they may also be web designers. The main goal of a graphic designer is to make things look pretty. Print designers work a...

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Key UI/UX Components

Upgrade Account & Plan Options CrazyEgg integrates the option “Change plan” in its main navigation.Bigcartel‘s upgrade plans are available in the app itself. System Updates Visual Feedback Help Documentation (User Guide) and Feedback Keyboard Shortcuts (onKeyPress-Dom window.ScrollTo) Advertise new application features. If a user is nearing the maximum capacity of a certain feature for her chosen subscription plan,...

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PHP WordPress Author BIO with Gravatar Image

The Code <div id="author-bio"> <h3>About The Author</h3> <?php echo get_avatar( get_the_author_email(), '80' ); ?> <h4><?php the_author(); ?> on <?php the_time('l, F jS, Y') ?></h4> <?php the_author_description(); ?> </div><!--end author-bio--> Breakdown: <div id="author-bio"> (the div tag is for styling in CSS) <h3>About The Author</h3> (author header...

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Wii Ruminitions

I find it odd when machines have contraction personal pronouns like "we're" or just pronouns as if my wii is a living being and not an inanimate object. (ie. we're experiencing difficulty...) it'd be funnier if it said things like.. Your Internet provider clearly is slow and we cannot provide your streaming videos until you get a higher grade router or sorry our programming failed we'll try to suck less next time. Or just build in an auto...

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What is a UI Designer?

What do you mean? As in what is UI? UI stands for user interface. Like user experience designers, we work a bit with usability, but primarily UI designers are visual with a touch of front end development. Most UI designers can program using the following languages: HTML XHTML (sometimes) HTML5 JQuery JavaScript CSS Most UI Designers can also use Adobe's Design Suite...

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Default Values

Challenge Choosing which values in a menu should be default. Ever go to a site that has a very small country set as the default value, a country that may not even have internet (or at best makes up .5% of online internet users)? Had the UI/UX Designer thought through the system configurations, you may have filled out that form slightly faster (it's a convenience factor). Solution Most users don't want to fill out long forms and will go to...

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Web Design is a Creative Art

Web design or graphic design is an art you may not be able to master instantly. Mastering web design comes over a period of time and with constant practice. Graphic Design is considered a new discipline, but the term was coined by William Addison Dwiggins in 1922 to refer to illuminated manuscripts in the caves of Lascaux from the Middle ages and visual communication that transpired in advertising art of the early twentieth century. Design...

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Removing a wordpress site from the root directory to the subdirectory without using a redirect

So I called GoDaddy to ask, "where to go on GoDaddy to change the sub-directory for a wordpress site?" Unfortunately the first time I called the guy had no clue what I was talking about, said he'd email me an answer and never did. The second time the girl told me to do a redirect and I stopped her before she told me something that I knew was wrong. And the third, which technically was the first because it occurred months prior, again the...

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YouTube – How to Build Your First Web Design Portfolio

YouTube - How to Build Your First Web Design Portfolio. Hi everyone and welcome to my tutorial on how to build your first web design portfolio. Remember DIY stands for DO IT YOURSELF so feel free to start off by googling templates if you are a print designer, fashion designer, developer, writer, gamer or anyone else who needs an online resume but doesn't know how to build there own site. Option b. is to hire someone like me to do it...

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