Top 10 Mistakes in Web Design

Jakob Nielsen wrote a nice article about the top 10 mistakes in Web design. Here the summary of the top 10 mistakes:

1. Bad search
2. PDF files for online reading
3. Not changing color of visited links
4. Non-scannable text
5. Fixed font size
6. Page titles with low search engine visibility
7. Anything that looks like an advertisment
8. Violating design conventions
9. Opening new browser windows
10. Not answering users' questions

Read the full article here...

Protolize - collection of web tools

I just came over Protolize wich is a place where web designers and developers collaborate to create an ultimate collection of web tools. Currently Protolize offers tools in the following categories: General, CSS, Javascript, Ajax, PHP, Ruby, Flash, CMS, and Inspiration.

50 Beautiful CSS-Based Web-Designs in 2006

I just came over a collection of 50 beutiful CSS-based web designs in 2006. There some really gorgeous sites in this collection. It's worth taking a look on it!!

Web 2.0 how-to design guide

A must read for all people that are working on Web 2.0 web design: Web 2.0 how-to design guide. The article shows 15 design guidelines for a great and cute Web 2.0 site!!!

Rounded Cornr

Rounded corners and gradient colors are two basic concepts of Web 2.0 pages. If you want to integrate these two essential concepts easily to your Web 2.0 page check out http://www.roundedcornr.com/ which offers HTML/CSS code generation for rounded corner and gradient color :-) Really nice!!

Ajax: A New Approach to Web Applications

I just came over a rather old article from Jesse James Garrett who explaines the principles of Ajax. However, it's still worth reading!! The article defines Ajax and explains the basic idea behind Ajax. Furthermore, a nice Q&A about Ajax is presented.

101 Easy Ways to use Google's New Website Optimizer

There's a great article of how to use Google's website optimizer. Website Optimizer is designed to help AdWords advertisers test different landing pages in order to determine which one drives the most conversions – whether they are sales, sign-ups or downloads. It's worth reading!!

Google Web Toolkit 1.3 released: Open Source

Google released the Google Web Toolkit (GWT) version 1.3 under open source licence. See the GWT Blog entry or the site of GWT (including demos)

Matt Sweeney: "Web 2.0: Getting It Right the Second Time"

Matt Sweeney, Senior Engineer on the YUI (Yahoo! User Interface Library) team at Yahoo!, delivers a talk on best practices in frontend engineering at Yahoo!'s Developer Day/Open Hack Day, September 29, 2006. In my opinion it's a very good talk!

Yahoo! UI Extensions Library: resizing elements

Jack Slocum wrote an interesting article about how to use the Yahoo! UI Extensions Library (YUI) for resizing elements in the Web . He presents code snippets and examples which show how easy it can be used.

Categorized Ajax Tutorials

That's really the bulkiest list of Ajax tutorials I've ever seen. And the best thing is, each tutorial is categorized within the following categories:

Getting Started
Bookmarklets
Chat
Drag
and Drop
Dynamically Content Loading
Forms and Autocomplete
File
Uploader
Image/Display/Edit/Gallery/Lightbox/Slideshow
Keyword
Suggest
Live Search
Misc/General
CodingParadise
CodingParadise
Progress Bars
Rounded Corner
RSS
Shopping
Cart
Lists/Sorting
Tabbed Pages
Trees
Username
Availability
Voting

Check that out!!!

script.aculo.us - it's about the user interface, baby!

Web 2.0 is about user interface - script.aculo.us is about Web 2.0 development.

The web page says: "It provides you witheasy-to-use, cross-browser userinterface JavaScript libraries to makeyour web sites and web applications fly. What's inside? animation framework, drag and drop, Ajax controls, DOM utilities, and unit testing. It's an add-on to thef antastic Prototype framework."

script.aculo.us is used by sites such as Apple, Feedburner, Ruby on Rails, etc.

A collection of Ajax tutorials

I found huge list of Ajax tutorials in the blog on Ajaxmatters. Very great overview!!