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October 15, 2009

The SEO series: HTML Header – SEO & usability

Posted in Tutorials, Usability by Gergely Marton | Tags: SEO, Tutorials, Usability, Web analytics

This article is the first from our “SEO series” we intend to write this week. The articles from this category will cover SEO tips from our good friend Claudiu Murariu and helpful information about today’s analytics and optimization tools available on the web.
The elements in a site’s header, or so called <HEAD></HEAD>, is ignored by [...]

January 18, 2009

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An alternative to sIFR: FaceLift Image Replacement

Posted in Design, Freebies, Web Apps by Gergely Marton | Tags: Design, Usability

Dind’t you have enough of Arial and Times New Roman and Verdana? Or maybe Tahoma as well? Well ME and some other briliant guys sure did have enough so the universe have given us sIFR. This sIFR thingie is an inline flash text replacement tool for web pages, so you can use any font-face you [...]

January 15, 2009

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10 Useful Web Application Interface Techniques

Posted in Usability, Web Apps by Gergely Marton | Tags: interface, Usability

More and more applications these days are migrating to the Web. Without platform constraints or installation requirements, the software-as-a-service model looks very attractive. Web application interface design is, at its core, Web design; however, its focus is mainly on function. To compete with desktop applications, Web apps must offer simple, intuitive and responsive user interfaces that let their users get things done with less effort and time.