Weekly Web Roundup: The Client Edition #22
The major news of the week was the leak of the new Facebook redesign with particular attention paid to the new home page and engagement ads. There is no indication of when this new design goes live, although judging by the document sent to advertisers it won’t be too far away. Personally I’m not impressed with the new design, I would like to have seen much more refinement on the actual aesthetics, but it looks like this phase is more concerned with the functionality and usability.
I’ve called this the Client edition after the first link which was my favorite of the week as it is a superb resource on how to make life easier for our clients when it comes to WordPress.
- 8 ways to make WordPress easier to use for your clients
If you use WordPress as a CMS for your clients’ websites, you’ve probably faced that issue: regular people find WordPress hard to use. This is brilliant roundup to keep note of for any designer or developer! - Contact Us Page Best Practices with 22 Fabulous Showcases
This post illustrates the best practices for a Contact Us page that you can adopt and how you can further enhance it. The Contact page can’t be overlooked as it’s the gateway for your visitors to get in touch with you. - 3 Powerful Ways To Make Typography Talk On Your Website
Typography is a very powerful tool in a web designer’s arsenal. Understanding typography and implementing its usage is essential, as this article points out. - 5 Rules To Write More Readable CSS Files
In this video from The Future of Web Apps London (FOWA), Kevin Rose, founder of Digg, WeFollow and Revision3, shares 9 things he did to increase his users to 1,000,000 and beyond. - 50 Essential Web Apps for Freelancers
Perfectly illustrating five simple practical rules that can help you write well structured and more readable CSS files to make your developer life easier. - 10 Dirty Little Web Development Tricks
We all have them – little coding tricks and snippets of knowledge that we’ve picked up over years of experimentation and evolution of our processes, here are a collection of great little snippets. - 34 Excellent Punctuation Inspired Logo Designs
The 34 logos showcased in the post use punctuation as a design element. Some logos feature commas, colons and semicolons while others use exclamation marks, question marks, brackets and parentheses. - Call to Action Buttons: Examples and Best Practices
How can we create effective call to action buttons that grab the user’s attention and entice them to click? This post explores effective design techniques and examples to provide some answers on exactly how to do it. - 60 Resources for the Frugal Web Developer
Because of the world’s economic state, we’ve had to change how we develop. The first step to becoming a frugal web developer is cutting back on expenses.
That’s a wrap up of the twenty-second edition. Were there any links you thought deserved a mention? If so drop a link in the comments so we can check them out.
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Grace Smith is owner of the small but perfectly formed web design studio Postscript5, in Northern Ireland. To keep up to date with the latest designalicious content, then please consider subscribing.