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Crazy Egg extends your standard analytical software (I use google analytics like most of you out there). It allows you to visualise the behaviour of your traffic on any particular page or set of pages, and make UI design decisions accordingly. This is also pretty darn useful if you are trying to convince your client [...]
This is what I consider to be the best JQuery Gallery/Image Rotator available, its simple to install and easy to customise. You can either use it as a gallery or as an A feature slider on your homepage.
The only thing that I’d change is allow the developer to choose whether or not to use #hashtag [...]
Information is Beautiful: In the same vein as Hans Rosling these guys take information and visualise the cr@p out of it. Brilliant!
Notable Posts: Google is not a search engine, If Twitter was 100 people, Not enough nukes
Brand New: Provides commentary on before and afters, history, and timlines of excersises in branding, fascinating!
Noteable Posts: Coke vs [...]
This is about a succinct a guide as I have seen regarding social media and what it means to agencies and clients, enjoy!
Ever feel like your getting stuck designing the same wireframes over and over again? Or have your concepts stopped looking like concepts? The list of sites below will both inform and inspire you to go beyond the day to day Design and UI principles you use.
Design and Layout Examples:
Konigi
Design Snips
Smiley Cat
UIZEN
ecommr
UI Component Libraries:
UI Patterns (fat [...]
This very cool effect is like Lightbox for videos, its been seen on many a site, most prominently on youtube and the divx web player. Now you can implement it on your own site.
Check it out at the author’s blog Janko at Warp Speed.
I know iFrames are evil, but sometimes they have their uses, like when you have to (against your will) soft launch a website at an hour’s notice.
So you create you’re auto resizing iframe code like so:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN” “http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd”>
<html lang=”en”>
<head>
<title>[Some Urgent Site]</title>
<style type=”text/css”>
html, body, div, iframe { margin:0; padding:0; height:100%; }
iframe [...]
Utterly pointless but super cool use of the youtube API. It makes a kind of cascading mosaic of any youtube video you like. Check it out www.yooouuutuuube.com