Tag: html

"Mad Libs" Style Form Increases Conversion 25-40%

  • March 8, 2010 at 12:05 pm

  • This is really interesting, because I always assumed that online registration forms were easier to use if their components were separated clearly.
    This post suggests that in fact a narrative paragraph containing the form fields in-line is more likely to encourage use.
    Thanks to Martin Black for drawing my attention to this on Twitter.
    Visit “Mad Libs” [...]

Web Design Dashboard

  • September 30, 2009 at 12:00 pm

  • A set of very handy lists of online web development tools, neatly and clearly laid out. Covers inspiration and design as well as markup, coding and marketing.
    Visit Web Design Dashboard

html5 Gallery

  • April 16, 2009 at 4:01 am

  • html5 gallery is a great showcase of HTML5, put together by Richard Clark. He aims both to show how the specification is already being interpreted and implemented, and to help people learn and understand it.

    Visit html5 Gallery

Playing with CSS (IE7 fails, of course)

  • March 23, 2009 at 10:11 pm

  • I’ve been playing with CSS3, just for fun really. All of the styles I’ve used work in Safari; most of them work in Firefox and Opera; none of them work in Internet Explorer 7.

    For my test page I wanted: paragraphs with transparent coloured backgrounds layered over images; each image to be different; the boxes to [...]

Bookmarks for 4 January 2009 through 5 January 2009

  • January 5, 2009 at 7:37 am

  • These are my links for 4 January 2009 through 5 January 2009:

    Adactio: Journal—The Rise of HTML5 –
    Simply Google: all of Google's services in one place – This is a nice idea, if it really does what it says. Google is so big now and lots of blogs, services and tools that can be hard [...]

Bookmarks for 3 January 2009 from 21:08 to 23:52

  • January 4, 2009 at 12:01 am

  • These are my links for 3 January 2009 from 21:08 to 23:52:

    The history of PC hardware, in pictures – An interesting pictoral history of firsts: trackball, mouse, laptop,PC, Apple, RAM, disk drive, etc.
    Test new html5 elements – Bruce Lawson's test page of new html elements that can be used right now.
    Digbeth is Good » Type [...]

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