Advertise here with BSA Everyone develops opinions regarding how things should look, how things should behave, and what things should be called. These cognitive biases make up the filter between what actually exists, and what we perceive to be true. The field of experience design attempts to realize a user’s cognitive biases, or opinions, and [...]
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Giveaway: 10 Premium WordPress Themes from WPZOOM
Advertise here with BSA In this giveaway, WPZOOM, providers of top quality Premium WordPress themes at amazing prices, is shelling out premium WordPress themes (worth ) and giving it to 10 lucky Six Revisions readers. Continue reading to find out how you can win a WPZOOM premium theme. WPZOOM: Top-Quality Professional WordPress Themes WPZOOM provides [...]
How to Use Your iPad for Real Design Work
Advertise here with BSA Designers have a love affair with Apple products that stretches back decades, but as Apple shifts their focus towards low-power devices that fit more towards a mainstream audience, are designers being left behind? We all know that the iPad is fun — but is it a legitimate business tool for designers? [...]
Usability Testing With Card Sorting
Advertise here with BSA Information architecture is a big component of web design. What order should elements go in? Is there a visual hierarchy that must be followed? What should go where? Is the current navigational structure the most efficient? These are just some questions that a designer faces. Many designers construct websites based on [...]
Are Dribbble Users Blurring the Line Between Art and Design?
Advertise here with BSA You can easily split the design community into two groups: those drafted into Dribbble and those who aren’t. Despite me being in the latter group, I find it difficult to ignore the fact that snapshots that are supposedly showing what designers are currently working on are no more than art and [...]
Effective Communication Tips for Web Designers
Advertise here with BSA We lay increasing importance on doing things in the user’s best interest and meeting their expectations, but we often forget that content and design is the window to a website’s soul. Our designs tell visitors something about us and build emotional bonds to brands through first impressions and reputation. By taking [...]
Web Developers vs. Web Developers (Infographic Remix)
Advertise here with BSA Back in November last year, a playful infographic exposed the differences between web designers and developers. In the infographic, a Venn diagram revealed one surprising characteristic the two groups seemed to share: a fear of women. While it wouldn’t be funny if it wasn’t mostly true, the joke’s exclusivity prompted many [...]
Giveaway: Adobe InDesign CS5 Books from Focal Press
Advertise here with BSA In this giveaway, we’ve teamed up with Focal Press, a publisher of media technology books for over 70 years, to give 10 lucky Six Revisions winners a copy of Interactive InDesign CS5, a training guide and reference book for the popular desktop publishing software from Adobe. Read on to see how [...]
The Overblown Excitement Around Modern Web Browsers
In the past few months, there has been a lot of talk around modern web browsers (Firefox 4, Chrome, IE9, etc.). The software application we use to navigate to our favorite websites is seeing tremendous attention, increased competition amongst its vendors, and advancements in its features. Designers are understandably excited about these so-called modern browsers [...]
Server Headers 101 (Infographic)
For newbies in the business of crafting websites, the purpose and technicality behind server header responses can often be a little mind baffling to get to grips with. Although there are essentially so much to learn, only a few are common and essential to web professionals and the average user. So what is a server [...]
Avoiding Unscoped Work from Unreasonable Clients
Have you ever had a dispute with a client? Most freelancers and contractors will answer this question with a resounding "no" because we tend to think of disputes as something which results in court proceedings, or at least, the intervention of lawyers. However, ask them to tell you how many unreasonable clients they have had, [...]
A Commonsense Approach to Improving SEO of Images and Videos
Search engine spiders haven’t yet evolved to the point where they can directly extract the meaning from a visual medium such as a photo or a video. Instead, search engines must rely on the metadata we provide them through alt attributes, title attributes, surrounding elements (for context), and so on. With some basic techniques, we [...]
Announcement: Winners of iTunes Gift Cards from Digiarty
We recently partnered up with our friends at Digiarty Software to give out 10 iTunes gift cards for use in the U.S. iTunes store in celebration of the release of PetsWar, an awesome iPhone game app, and their new MacX iPhone Mounter. In this post, we announce the winners of the iTunes gift cards. The [...]
Fine-Tuning WordPress for SEO
Just a few short years ago, building static websites by hand with HTML/CSS was the norm. Nowadays, WordPress powers almost 14% of all websites[1]. Originally developed as a blogging platform, WordPress has since morphed into a powerful content management system for all types of websites. But, as with most things that evolve from what they [...]
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