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The Internet is constantly changing. BusinessWeek.com spoke to a bevy of experts and distilled the must-follow rules top online designers live by in 2008

Since the Internet emerged as a major force, altering everything from the way people work to the way they date, it has been a roller-coaster ride that made the world giddy. Microsoft ,   Netscape,  et al. fought the browser wars, Web standards were championed, and the Web became community-minded and social, ushering in the reign of Facebook, Flickr, and You Tube. From boom to bust and back again, with staggering amounts of money changing hands at every point, the online industry rides on with no end in sight.

The Net has also attracted prophets, gurus, theorists, and evangelists of every stripe. Many of their promised game-changing technologies—Jini, DHTML, and countless others—never panned out, while seemingly simple innovations—metadata, XML, and CSS—have led to major breakthroughs. Meanwhile, Web design vogues from the effervescent jumble of HotWired to the stark utility of Google have continued to evolve and become more contradictory—and entrenched.

To try and make sense of it all, BusinessWeek.com canvassed a broad range of Internet luminaries to discover the design rules they live by right now. Contributors ranged from the guru of Web usability, Don Norman, co-founder of the Nielsen Norman Group, to the design director of NYTimes.com, Khoi Vinh, and John Maeda, president-elect of the Rhode Island School of Design. These 10 commandments of Web design for 2008 are the combined results of our survey. For the full list of contributors, see the end of the story.

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The web looks very different today than it did 10 years ago.

Back in 1994, Yahoo had only just launched, most websites were text-based and Amazon, Google and eBay had yet to appear.

But, says usability guru Dr Jakob Nielsen, some things have stayed constant in that decade, namely the principles of what makes a site easy to use.

Dr Nielsen has looked back at a decade of work on usability and considered whether the 34 core guidelines drawn up back then are relevant to the web of today.

“Roughly 80% of the things we found 10 years ago are still an issue today,” he said.

“Some have gone away because users have changed and 10% have changed because technology has changed.”
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OMdeSIGN.co.uk has a new drop-down menu! We had a fantastic feedback from people who decided to visit our site - they all love our new layout but some of them reported they found it hard to find certain information on our site -  especially those considering our bespoke web designs. That’s why we’ve decided to redo our menu navigation system and add to it a 3rd dimension.. and here it is! We hope with those changes in place our visitors will find it more intuitive to navigate through our site

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And here it is.. It was just a matter of time before we upgraded our old blog to one run on Wordpress. After all we’ve been offering this kind of blogs for quite some time now to our customers - it was about time to make the switch ourselves. Read the rest of this entry »

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We’re proud to present our lates creation - inspiritlondon.com

Inspirit London works together with employers to promote employee health and wellbeing, providing exceptional quality massage at their workplace. OMdeSIGN prepared a bespoke design of the new website and company logo followed by company stationery. Built into the site is extended contact form with built-in spam prevention filter. The whole website has been created using HTML/CSS programming and is written up to W3C standards.

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