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  Designing for the Mobile Web [Design Principles] 

  http://www.sitepoint.com/article/designing-for-mobile-web

  The number of users browsing the Web from a mobile device continues to rise, yet most mobile web sites are still sub-par. The thing is, creating a great web experience for users of mobile devices is much ... easier than you might think. In this article I'll introduce seven fundamental steps that, if followed, will help you avoid the pitfalls that have caused many other mobile sites to fail. By the end of this article you'll know exactly where to focus your efforts in order to build a successful mobile site. 1. Don't Mix Up Your Markup A few different types of markup are available for building a mobile web site. You'll need to choose one that suits the needs of your customers and stick with it. WML In the early days of mobile web devices, the only way to surf the mobile web was to browse WAP (Wireless Application Protocol) sites. A WAP site uses WML (Wireless Markup Language) as its primary markup language. WML is an XML markup language based on the card-and-deck metaphor. Luckily for us, W   [More...] [Less...]

  First added: 13 March 2008, by: David Wiblin  [Report as spam]

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  Tags:  design, mobile, device, principles, web

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  scottberkun.com » #26 - The myth of discoverability 

  http://www.scottberkun.com/essays/26-the-myth-of-discoverability/

  #26 - The myth of discoverability By Scott Berkun , August 2003 Discoverability is often defined as the ability for a user of a design to locate something that they need, in order to complete a certain ... task. It’s common to hear programmers and designers utter the phrase “that won’t be discoverable”, while pointing to a specific command or link they believe users will fail to find. The trap, and the myth, of discoverability is that in any design, not everything can be discoverable. There are two flavors of the myth: the core myth, and its corollary. The myth of discoverability, in concise form : The belief that all good user interfaces make all things in the website or product utterly and extremely discoverable, and any design that makes an element (button, link, etc.) less than extremely discoverable, can’t possibly be very good, and should be thrown away, to the embarrassment of the designer. The corollary for large teams : In lieu of a truly good design, often people on the team will   [More...] [Less...]

  First added: 18 March 2008, by: Suzy Pym  [Report as spam]

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  dsgn-bk.fmb [pdf]

  http://www.cisco.com/application/pdf/en/us/guest/netsol/ns304/c649/cdccont_0900aecd800ea161.pdf

  Corporate Headquarters Cisco Systems, Inc. 170 West Tasman Drive San Jose, CA 95134-1706 USA http://www.cisco.com Tel: 408 526-4000 800 553-NETS (6387) Fax: 408 526-4100 Data Center Infrastructure ... Design March, 2004 2 Version 1.0 THE SPECIFICATIONS AND INFORMATION REGARDING THE PRODUCTS IN THIS MANUAL ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE WITHOUT NOTICE. ALL STATEMENTS, INFORMATION, AND RECOMMENDATIONS IN THIS MANUAL ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE BUT ARE PRESENTED WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED. USERS MUST TAKE FULL RESPONSIBILITY FOR THEIR APPLICATION OF ANY PRODUCTS. THE SOFTWARE LICENSE AND LIMITED WARRANTY FOR THE ACCOMPANYING PRODUCT ARE SET FORTH IN THE INFORMATION PACKET THAT SHIPPED WITH THE PRODUCT AND ARE INCORPORATED HEREIN BY THIS REFERENCE. IF YOU ARE UNABLE TO LOCATE THE SOFTWARE LICENSE OR LIMITED WARRANTY, CONTACT YOUR CISCO REPRESENTATIVE FOR A COPY. The Cisco implementation of TCP header compression is an adaptation of a program developed by the University   [More...] [Less...]

  First added: 15 October 2007, by: David Wiblin  [Report as spam]

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  Secure Infrastructure Design [pdf]

  http://www.cert.org/archive/pdf/Secure_Infrastructure_Design.pdf

  Scott C. Zimmerman, CERT ® Coordination Center Information technology (IT) and enterprise networks have become the core of many organizations. Critical business functions often depend on a fully functioning ... IT infrastructure: no network means no ability to generate revenue. To this end, an organization’s growth and evolution should be reflected in the growth and evolution of its network. Organizational changes can include new or expanded missions, new factors such as mobile workers, and growth or downsizing in response to purely external factors. Infrastructure changes that stem from these factors can include additional network components (of a type already present), new types of components, and additional subnets or Internet connections. This paper describes the fundamental components of infrastructure design, provides an overview of risk management concepts, and illustrates samples of network topologies. Background A brief discussion of some common network entities will lay the groun   [More...] [Less...]

  First added: 15 October 2007, by: David Wiblin  [Report as spam]

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  HTMLCenter | Web Development and HTML Blog 

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  The more we rely upon CSS , the larger and more complex stylesheet files become. Planning and organising your stylesheet is essential to creating a lean, manageable website. There are many ways of organising ... CSS code but the following are best practice… Comment your stylesheet Commenting your stylesheet makes it much easier to find the information or the commands you’re looking for. Read the rest of this entry » After my unfortunate adventures with the bandwidth limitations of my Internet connection, I decided to search the Web for some sort of utility that would help me monitor and hopefully limit my downloads and uploads. While I didn’t find anything that would actually limit my downloads and uploads (no utilities that would temporarily disable my Internet connection if I got close to my limits), I did find a really nice utility for monitoring my connection. Read the rest of this entry » AJAX or Asynchronous JavaScript and XML , is an innovative way of using existing technologies to   [More...] [Less...]

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