In April 2007 Alist Apart did a survey on Web Design. Almost 33,000 professional took the survey and the results are out yesterday. I have answered the survey questions on april 26th. Till now i eagerly waited for the compiled results.

264 (0.8%) web designers took the survey from india.

You can download the raw date of those who participated in the survey, in the raw data we can find answers to the each question by each participant.

Survey findings are in a PDF file with illustrated charts.

1 from ping mag its really funny but informative.

2 from 37 signals Using patterns in webdesign

The meaning of alt text is to serve as replacement (hence, “alternative”) when the image the HTML intends to serve cannot be seen. There’s a variety of reasons for that to happen; the user is blind, the medium doesn’t support images, the user disabled images on purpose so she can browse on low-bandwidth, or the Googlebot comes around to visit.

For example, when your image is a mere illustration to a point you’re repeating elsewhere in the text, there’s no need at all to use the alt text. Because the image is not crucial to understanding the point. Most people however at this point heard some rumors that the “alt tag” is increasing accessibility; and possibly, they’ve heard somewhere else that accessibility is professional these days. And they also might want to see a tool-tip, not knowing that the title attribute would come in handy for that. (Wordpress in typical installations even creates an alt text based on the image’s file name; tools like Frontpage have committed similar silliness in the past.)

So, let’s say our blog post is titled “New AJAX Flavor Discovered” and the illustration following the headline is a shrink-wrap box with the shiny colorful letters “AJAX,” then repeating the letters AJAX in the alt text will result in something like this within alternative browsing contexts:

New AJAX Flavor Discovered
AJAX

Is this useful? No – the point of the illustration was to use a recognizable catchy visual, or to suggest that AJAX is hyped as a shrink-wrapped shiny product; the point was not to clarify (in text) that the article is about AJAX, as the headline already did a good job at that.

In XHTML2, by the way, some of us may be able to get rid of the alt attribute altogether. Why? In XHTML2 you can use the “src” attribute on anything, including e.g. a paragraph. It’s a bit like longdesc (today’s link to a longer image description) done right.

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Have you ever thought about how many people are visiting your website and can’t use it for one reason or another? Well, this number might be higher than you think. If you are truly looking to create a web accessible site, then you need to take color impaired visitors into consideration. For colorblind individuals, the wrong color combinations on a website can make navigation and interaction impossible. However, don’t panic, there are a few simple rules that you can follow to design a website that is functional for the colorblind without giving up any of your website’s favorite design aspects. read more..

Many designers don’t think about the code behind the sites they design. This is a huge problem because it slows web projects down, which costs money. The good news is designers don’t need to learn code; they just need to change the way they think.

 

Styling a table with CSS has major advantages since it separates the structural markup from presentation formatting. It offers extra flexibility on the way you present your table. You have the freedom to style each side of a table cell separately..

CARBON PIPELINE has a good article ..