Comments on: 8 Highly Effective Habits for Web Design http://kerrywebster.com/design/8-highly-effective-habits-for-web-design/ ...just below the surface Wed, 19 Nov 2008 11:57:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Web Design http://kerrywebster.com/design/8-highly-effective-habits-for-web-design/#comment-1775 Web Design Sat, 30 Aug 2008 11:44:38 +0000 http://kerrywebster.com/?p=159#comment-1775 Really fantastic article, very useful! Really fantastic article, very useful!

]]> By: Kerry http://kerrywebster.com/design/8-highly-effective-habits-for-web-design/#comment-1199 Kerry Tue, 01 Jul 2008 13:01:29 +0000 http://kerrywebster.com/?p=159#comment-1199 @dennis - you have to think development for large websites requires a massive QA with MAC/WIN and then every flavor of browser known to man. What a monumental task. It is the lowly blogger :) who may not have the means to have every single browser and OS combination that sort of loses. Emulation would be great but native testing would be the best. @dennis - you have to think development for large websites requires a massive QA with MAC/WIN and then every flavor of browser known to man. What a monumental task. It is the lowly blogger :) who may not have the means to have every single browser and OS combination that sort of loses. Emulation would be great but native testing would be the best.

]]> By: dennis http://kerrywebster.com/design/8-highly-effective-habits-for-web-design/#comment-1190 dennis Sun, 29 Jun 2008 14:41:26 +0000 http://kerrywebster.com/?p=159#comment-1190 i agree that #7 is very important and also to do cross platform testing so that something that works on the mac looks as good on the pc too. it's bad news to spend hours making something work and then 2 days later your mom tells you "why does the big graphic on the top of your site look like it is falling off the screen?" arg! gotta test and test again. i agree that #7 is very important and also to do cross platform testing so that something that works on the mac looks as good on the pc too.

it’s bad news to spend hours making something work and then 2 days later your mom tells you “why does the big graphic on the top of your site look like it is falling off the screen?”

arg!

gotta test and test again.

]]> By: Kerry http://kerrywebster.com/design/8-highly-effective-habits-for-web-design/#comment-892 Kerry Mon, 21 Apr 2008 01:28:21 +0000 http://kerrywebster.com/?p=159#comment-892 HEHEHE!!! :) HEHEHE!!! :)

]]> By: Mike http://kerrywebster.com/design/8-highly-effective-habits-for-web-design/#comment-891 Mike Sun, 20 Apr 2008 23:39:55 +0000 http://kerrywebster.com/?p=159#comment-891 back@Kerry- I remember 1995 as the time when I wasn't allowed on the internet because men in white vans would supposedly kidnap me. Sorry for making you sound old. :D back@Kerry- I remember 1995 as the time when I wasn’t allowed on the internet because men in white vans would supposedly kidnap me. Sorry for making you sound old. :D

]]> By: Kerry http://kerrywebster.com/design/8-highly-effective-habits-for-web-design/#comment-890 Kerry Sun, 20 Apr 2008 22:17:28 +0000 http://kerrywebster.com/?p=159#comment-890 @Mike - I know this may make me sound old but #7 was huge back in 1995-98 (I know, practically dinosaur years for the web) even when there were only two main browsers (IE & Netscape - Mac of course had theirs) there were several versions at once and people didn't upgrade as quickly as they do today. So, IE2,3,4,5 & NN 3,4,5,6,7, they all had to be tested. And they were all major upgrades so there were hugh differences in each release. It was even crazier than it is today if you can believe that. Just having as many browsers installed on your computer as possible didn't give you the ability to test everything. Today there is one more challenge that wasn't eminent in 1995 and that is mobile browsers. Each phone has their own implementation. It will never end. Like the article states - "TEST, TEST, TEST" and test some more. @Mike - I know this may make me sound old but #7 was huge back in 1995-98 (I know, practically dinosaur years for the web) even when there were only two main browsers (IE & Netscape - Mac of course had theirs) there were several versions at once and people didn’t upgrade as quickly as they do today. So, IE2,3,4,5 & NN 3,4,5,6,7, they all had to be tested. And they were all major upgrades so there were hugh differences in each release. It was even crazier than it is today if you can believe that. Just having as many browsers installed on your computer as possible didn’t give you the ability to test everything. Today there is one more challenge that wasn’t eminent in 1995 and that is mobile browsers. Each phone has their own implementation. It will never end. Like the article states - “TEST, TEST, TEST” and test some more.

]]> By: Mike http://kerrywebster.com/design/8-highly-effective-habits-for-web-design/#comment-889 Mike Sun, 20 Apr 2008 17:09:03 +0000 http://kerrywebster.com/?p=159#comment-889 This is something designers should read because I constantly preach to my friend about his excessive use of flash on his layouts because when you look at the source code, its just embedded flash. And #7 is something we should all become habitual in, I can't tell you the amount of times I had to keep fixing things because I didn't test EVERYTHING possible. -Mike This is something designers should read because I constantly preach to my friend about his excessive use of flash on his layouts because when you look at the source code, its just embedded flash. And #7 is something we should all become habitual in, I can’t tell you the amount of times I had to keep fixing things because I didn’t test EVERYTHING possible.

-Mike

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