Ask Dr. Web with Jeffrey Zeldman: Looking for Love: Standing Out from the Crowd of Web Job Seekers
In our last installment, we talked about when, why, and how to quit your job. This time out, we’ll discuss what to do when you have a lot to offer but can’t seem to connect with the right job. I was hoping you could give me some direction on how to find a design mentor. […]
Mixing Color for the Web with Sass
Color is one of the most powerful components of art and design. We use it to influence mood, create an environment, and tell a story. Over 125 years ago, a great impressionist painter changed the way we think about color by observing light’s role in it. So far, these observations have been largely lost on […]
Using get_pages to Create Link Buttons to Your Site’s Top-Level Pages
If you’re creating a site with some top-level pages that you want to draw visitors’ attention to and encourage them to visit, it helps to have them displayed prominently in your site’s header. Of course you can add top-level pages to your navigation menu, but in this tutorial I’ll show you how to add some […]
Magento Theme Development: Bootstrapping
In this second article of our Magento theme development series, we’ll set up the basis of our new theme. We’ll set up the basic directory structure of our new theme, inherit it from Magento’s default Responsive theme, place the CSS, JS, and images in the appropriate locations, and create a new local.xml file for our […]
How To Write Inspiring Job Descriptions For UX
To attract motivated designers and user researchers, keep your eye on the why. What’s the why? It’s the underlying purpose that brings you and your employees together. Why the why? Because if you focus only on what you need, then you run the risk of filtering down merely to an adequate match for the […]