Daniel Waisberg focuses on error and maintenance pages, both from tracking as well as usability perspectives. Also, go through a good number of examples on how to use analytics and defensive design in order to optimize user experience for such pages.
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A look at some interesting and original ways to present navigation menus content. Approach these techniques, making sure they fit the context of your design, always prioritizing a good navigation and a richer user experience.
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In the previous part of this tutorial we’ve discussed how to create an animated sliding menu with Javascript using the jQuery framework. In this tutorial, we’ll continue to develop our application by enhancing the sliding effect in various ways and make it even more customizable.
When we finish with this article, we should have a full-fledged animated Javascript menu that will enable you to display your menus in a great number of creative ways. So let’s continue right where we left off!
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Everyone is always looking for interesting and effective ways to organize their website and allow users to move about and find things. But there’s a fine line between unexpected and unusable.
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One of the great advantages of creating interactive websites is being able to dynamically hide and reveal parts of your content. Not only does it make for a more interesting user experience, but it allows you to stuff more onto a single page than would otherwise be possible, but in a very elegant, non-obtrusive way, and without overwhelming the user with too much information at once.
In this tutorial, we’ll create a sliding menu using the jQuery framework. You will find the downloadable source files at the end of the tutorial if you wish to use them on your website. But the main goal of this article is to show you some basic techniques for creating these kinds of effects and to provide you with the tools you need to realize your own creative ideas. This tutorial is aimed at beginner jQuery developers and those just getting into client-side scripting. You’ll learn how to progressively build this simple effect from scratch.
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Website navigation menus generally come in one of two orientations: vertical and horizontal. Horizontal navigation menus display items side by side. Vertical navigation menus stack items on top of each other. In this post, we highlight some remarkable vertical navigation menus, for your inspiration.
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Five reasons why vertical navigation should not be used and why designers and architects should almost always construct their sites with horizontal navigation in mind.
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The navigation menu is perhaps a website’s single most important component. Navigation gives you a window onto the website designer’s creative ability to produce a functional yet visually impressive element that’s fundamental to most websites. Because of their value to websites, navigation menus are customarily placed in the most visible location of the page, and thus can make a significant impact on the visitor’s first impression.
The design of a navigation menu has to be outstanding in order to sustain the user’s interest. As the adage goes, “Content is king,” but getting to the content requires navigation. In this post, we’ll be explore some of the more recent trends in navigation design. We’ll look at the aesthetics that recur in today’s best Web designs. The focus here is on the visual direction that leading designers are taking.
You should also read the following related posts:
* Navigation Menus: Trends and Examples
* 50 Beautiful And User-Friendly Navigation Menus
* CSS-Based Navigation Menus: Modern Solutions
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The horizontal navigation menu has become a mainstay in Web design. It is safe to say that nowadays most websites use some form of horizontal navigation to facilitate content browsing. The dominance of horizontal navigation over vertical (i.e. down a sidebar) is obviously due to the design and content limitations of the latter.
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A module tab is a design pattern where content is separated into different panes, and each pane is viewable one at a time. The user requests content to be displayed by clicking (or in some instances hovering over) the content’s corresponding tab control.
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