Marko Dugonjić wrote an article about an image preloader, which is too good not to mention.
The idea is brilliantly easy. So easy the real question would be “why didn’t anyone think of this before?”. A pre-loader is frequently used with flashmovies, to indicate that they are, indeed, loading. They get these pre-loaders as they tend […]

Dustin came up with the idea to have the first annual naked day. A day on which your site shows off all it’s white spots. So, no stylesheets for 24 hours. The reason behind this is to see how userfriendly your site is to people without css, and that includes (to an extent) screenreaders.
For […]

A continuation of the last post.
Heuristics are rules of thumb to check wether something is usable. The rules I explain here are written by Jacob Nielsen.
Recognition rather than recall
The short term memory of the average can have 7 items in it. So, if your menu has 10 different buttons, chances are they’ll not […]

Wikipedia:
Heuristic is the art and science of discovery and invention. The word comes from the same Greek root as “eureka”: εὑρισκω, which means “I find”. A heuristic is a way of directing your attention fruitfully. The term was introduced by Pappus of Alexandria in the 4th century.
Heuristics are more known as a ‘rule of thumb’. […]

I recently got a question in my e-mail on how to do seo with flash. Maybe something with xml? Would that be indexed better? And, won’t it be seen as spam?
Well, this guy is definately thinking in the right direction, xml is the way to go.
Use RSS for indexing
Instead of using just ‘a’ xml […]

When I started working at connectholland I made a great form, which would change the colours of the fields that were incorrectly ordered. But only after you pressed the ’send’ button. The next website had a form that checked with javascript before even sending the information.
Nowadays however that’s just not good enough. But how […]

Prefetching is a technique used by Firefox and Mozilla to fetch a page before the link is actually clicked. It uses the idle time of the browser to get the contents you would probably want to see next. How does it work, and why would you want to use it?
How it works is quite simple, […]

If you’ve ever read Nielsens top ten webdesign mistakes you’ll know that one of the mistakes that comes back year after year is not differing between visited and not visited links. The question generally is how to do this without breaking the design.
Designing a different mark-up for the current active link, and giving visited […]