Tufuga Media

My Zen Garden Design

As part of my web programming class, I was introduced to the CSS Zen Garden.  The concept is this: you take an existing HTML file with no styling, and by using CSS only, turn it into a completely styled website.  Take a look at how I did for my first CSS website! (more…)

Web designers have to ensure that their users can access the information they need to.  Over time, this has led to a dumbing down of interfaces.  The safe approach is often seen as the best approach.  During interface designs, I have been guilty of saying things like, “It’s not likely anyone would be able to find that link.” or “This interface might be too complicated for users.”  While it may be true that simplicity is important in web design, innovation should not be sacrificed along the way. (more…)

This is an excerpt taken from a journal on web loyalty –  Otim and Grover. An empirical study on Web-based services and customer loyalty. European Journal of Information Systems (2006) vol. 15 (6) pp. 527.  The journal studied pre-purchase, purchase process, and post purchase factors which impacted customer loyalty.  In short, they found that pre-purchase factors, such has web design, had little impact on customer loyalty when compared to post purchase factors, such as delivery time.  Here are a few of their findings. (more…)

Although I am relatively new to the world of web design, I am painfully aware of the issues of browser compatibility.  I was working on the envisionlaie.com website, everything looked great.  Then I got a call saying something was messed up.  Turns out, internet explorer was not recognizing a background image because of the way I coded the CSS.  I use a Mac, so I had all sorts of trouble trying to fix the problem as I didn’t have a Windows machine to test on.  But no more!  Adobe BrowserLab allows you to test webpages in different web browsers on different operating systems.  I played around with it, and it seems pretty good! (more…)