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The phrase "graceful degradation" is often used to describe the idea that a Web page that uses special technologies for presentation enhancements, animation, interactivity, etc., should "degrade" to a simpler, yet fully functional page in circumstancies where the technologies are not applicable. This document takes a somewhat different view: instead of considering how to provide "fallbacks" for various advanced constructs, we consider how to create first a robust document that works always, then augment it by providing optional alternatives to the simple constructs. We'll discuss the different techniques that are needed for different enhancements.
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The most common failure of development projects is the inability to correctly define the problem. If the goal is vague, it's impossible to know whether it's been solved it or not. And even if the goal is well defined, it may be the wrong goal for the situation in which the design will be used. A well-built machine gun won't help you repair a flat tire. So these two kinds of failure, vague goals and the wrong goals, have nothing to do with technical acumen. If you can't prevent these kinds of failures, even the best developers or designers in the world will not succeed. You may write great code or create wonderful designs, but if you don't solve the right problem, your efforts are wasted. [MSDN 2001]
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This paper describes component selection and management techniques you can use to make your Web site ready to adapt to increasing traffic. These techniques are the product of IBM’s experience working with customers seeking to improve the performance and availability of some of the world’s largest Web sites.
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In my opinion, the most two important parts of a web site are content and function. Since the web is a beautiful, wonderful mixture of art and technology, graphical aspects are not to be neglected, but the two main focuses of web users are either to retreive information or perform some sort of task. Regardless of the user focus or advanced technical aspects of a site, the interface still plays the central role. It's almost impossible to create an interface that fits all users. Therefore, it's important to give the user a variety of interface options, making it possible to perform a given task in different ways.
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This document provides annotated links to tutorials, references, FAQs, and specialized documents about HTML forms.
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A good web designer knows how to blend just the right amount of interface with information, so that it appears seamless and the navigation almost transparent to the end user. This is where Davis's idea of liquid design comes into play. Through his years of web development, he has come to a conclusion that there are three elements of interface on the web today: those that are Liquid, Jell-O, and Ice.
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In the pages that follow, I’ll show you a process that anyone can use to convert an existing site, made up of static HTML pages, into a dynamic, database-driven site. We’ll look at how to uncover the structure of your content, how to strip that content naked and push it through templates, and finally how this process is fundamentally changing how we design websites. [Webmonkey 22/05/2001]
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In case you aren't familiar with the DOCTYPE element, it's quite simply an element used to declare what language (and its level) a document uses, and optionally what document type definition (DTD) is to be used in its handling. In other words, the document type.
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These design guidelines are intended to help create a viable web site design in which Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) are never changed. With most designs, never breaking URLs involves either an increasingly disorganised file system, as new sections are added, or a complex design, even for very simple sites. These guidelines should reduce, or even remove, these problems.
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