, ,

User Centered Webdesign – Persuading the User

ucwd-header

This article elaborates on some principles which you can use to make your site more user centered. With the availability of shared information on the internet and a lot of tutorials about design, mark-up and programming, learning how to make websites is into reach of many more people than past decade. However, as most design education can emphasis, learning the tools is not enough. One of the key elements of a (strategic) designer is the ability to think out of the perspective of the user. In this article I want to show some principles which focus on the user, and are from the field of neuro webdesign.

,

Build a jquery feature slider using custom posts

header-custom-posts

Some weeks ago, I wanted to add a slider to my wordpress theme. At first, the slider was reading data from custom meta boxes at posts from the wordpress cms, and was linked to posts, but this had reduced flexibility since it was not possible to link a slider to any post, page or item. The solution? Use custom posts or custom content that is used for the slider only. This tutorial describes how to set up custom post types yourself, and to add a jquery slider that uses these custom post types, both in a wordpress environment. It is assumed that you have basic understanding of wordpress and understand html and css well.