There are many ways to design user interface. Most of people got used to industrial-type design with straight lines, perfected shapes, glass effect, fine tuned gradients and other elements intended to make as expensive as possible impression. But these guys, creators of “Napkin Look And Feel”, went opposite direction: they created cheap-looking, casual and very […]

On September 13 “Current Trends In Web Design” article got elected onto Digg home page. How did it affect web traffic, Alexa ranking and other indicators of popularity? Well, here is what happened.
Traffic Summary
Before Digg Effect it was about 30-40 visitors a day in September with about 60-80 page views. First two days of digg-driven traffic there […]

Copy and paste the code below in address line of page with pictures and see the pictures flying effect. No harm, tested with Internet Explorer 6.0, 7.0,  Opera 8.54 and Firefox 1.5 (0.6, 0.7).
IMPORTANT: after you pasted it into the browser address line, replace all quotes with single quotes (because of UTF-8 encoding).
javascript:R=0; x1=.1; y1=.05; x2=.25; y2=.24; x3=1.6; […]

There is a way to see with more clarity how some companies are doing now and what is facing them in future. It is a very simple way of estimating internet-dependant companies, I would like to name it “Alexa Indicator”.
There are some companies with a model of business 100% dependant on web-related transactions. Their sales […]

It appears that the most expensive web design adwords are connected to local search. Designers pay a lot for keywords like ‘<city / state name> web design’. 
For example, the most expensive ‘web design’ adword is ‘connecticut web design’, costs $49.71. Next is ‘houston web design’ for $27.87, after Houston comes ‘california web design’ for $19.63 and ‘boston web design’ […]

I have to say upfront: depending on context, multitasking can be either a great performance booster or shortcut to complete failure.
A few days back Yahoo published an article (originally from Baltimore Sun, Multitasking often recipe for disaster), which happen to highlight a few aspects of this.
I’ll try to be brief.

1. When multitasking is good
Big […]

I have visited a lot of sites like CSS Zen Garden and others, I keep exploring the web on daily basis, so this article covers most of the current design trends which I recognize as high-quality ones.

Anyway, I’ll be brief and will try to get right to the point.
Web Desktop Style
www.yahoo.com  
mail.yahoo.com  
www.live.com  
pros: High-end looking style
cons: The […]