Web Design
Are you interested in web design and web development?
Learn how to build a correct information architecture ensuring an effective communication.
I have been developing and optimizing websites for the metalworking industry
for 10 years and I have often seen how this resource is underestimated and used
incorrectly.
A well-designed website can bring many customers to a B2B company in the manufacturing
sector, many more customers than all the fairs and agents put together.
And above all spending much less or nothing.
In this article I’ll make you aware of the huge opportunities out
there waiting for you and subsequently I’ll show you how to create
a well-conceived platform for acquiring online customers.
If you follow all the directions you may be able to triple quote requests,
while reducing your advertising budget by 90%.
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CDNs (
Content Delivery Networks) are great to speed up website performances, but they are a mess when you are testing your website on your development machine.
Another problem may arise if you want to change your CDN to another one. Do yoy have to replace all URLs in all your pages?
In this article I'll show you a clever and definitive solution to
avoid hardcoding the CDN URLs in your HTML markup.
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There is a well-known bug on Internet Explorer 10 for WIndows Phone 8 that avoids responsive web sites to display correctly. The cause is that Internet Explorer 10 doesn't differentiate device width from viewport width, and thus doesn't properly apply the media queries in your favorite responsive CSS framework.
You can find many fixes on the client side, but if you're using ASP.NET, you have the chance to fix it server side with only few lines of code.
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In this article we will see how to precisely control the cache of the client
(the browser of your PC, for example) in order to avoid the transmission of data
from the server when the client already owns them. The ASP.NET server already
has systems for data caching, for example to avoid repeating the same database
query; would not it be nice not to avoid sending these data to avoid bandwidth
consumption?
The technique is called conditional GET and uses the
304 HTTP status code and is particularly useful when data are dynamically
generated on the server side and change during the time.
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Which are the errors to avoid in web design?
It would be possible to write thousands of books (and many have been written),
but in this article you'll see the world's worst website and
have fun.
- Impossible colors
- Hypnotic backgrounds
- Frames
- Broken links
- Many silly animated GIFs
- Annoying unstoppable music
- And many more...
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