I was working on my design inspiration article for this week (Wednesday), and I chose to promote a Flash website for a magazine that was very nice looking and fun to view on my iMac. But for the heck of it, I decided to see what fallback options they had chosen to use for iOS visitors. I didn't expect to see the site recreated in HTML5 (although I admit, I was hoping…). But I was surprised to see the above image as a new version of the tired and old browser wars. Only, as you can see, instead of being told to get a new browser (and there are apps that run Flash sites on iOS), you are told to get a new tablet device. Seriously? Do any of you really believe that someone will like a single website so much that they will say “What the heck! I'm going to go drop another couple hundred dollars on a new tablet, because this website is sooooooo cool!” and go out and buy another tablet? Personally, I wouldn't do it. But my brother tells me I'm an Apple zealot, so maybe I'm biased.

Read the full article: Flash Websites Need Fallback Options for iOS Users

Getting More Customers Rather Than Driving Them Away

• How to Drive Away Your Readers
• Web Design Mistakes
• Ecommerce Annoyances - Don't Annoy Your Customers Before You've Made the Sale

Don?t Drive Away Tablet Users in a New Browser War originally appeared on About.com Web Design / HTML on Monday, May 7th, 2012 at 08:00:38.

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Do these things....

These simple steps will help you keep your page loading smoothly for your customers and make it easy for them to read and use your Web site. I recommend these tips to my Web team, and I think you should know about them as well.

If you do nothing else with your page originally appeared on About.com Web Design / HTML on Friday, May 4th, 2012 at 08:00:28.

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Submitter’s comments: You don’t hear from me often, but when you do you can bet it’s because I’ve found something worthy of mention. To be honest, I find lots of sucky sites on the web, but I only send you the ones that truly, inarguably and inexcusably suck. My nomination for the Daily Sucker is [...]

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Stinger Penguns – An Example of Bad Web Design for May 4, 2012

This is a blog full of inspiration and information for designers. My only disappointment is that it wasn’t updated at all in April, so I’m not sure if it’s still live.

Have you built an HTML5 site? Or do you know of one that does a great job with HTML5? Share your web design blog to be featured on this site.

Web Design Blogs - Desgr.com originally appeared on About.com Web Design / HTML on Wednesday, May 2nd, 2012 at 08:00:57.

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Submitter’s comments: I just saw a local TV restaurant review on this place and thought I’d check it out.  Interesting splash page, except that seems to be the whole site. Talk about Mystery Meat Navigation! I checked out the link that says “Amazing,” and several of the patron comments about their restaurant are negative. I [...]

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Justine’s Is NSFW And Could Cause Seizures – An Example of Bad Web Design for May 2, 2012

I spent all yesterday working on an HTML5 cheat sheet for myself and my other site, and I realized that you would probably like it as well. It's a PDF file of the HTML5 tags listed by whether they are new, changed, unchanged from HTML4 or completely obsolete (and what you should use instead). I created it for myself, but I thought you might like to see it.

HTML5 Cheat Sheet (PDF)

Learn HTML5

• HTML 5 Information
• What is HTML 5
• How to Use HTML5 Right Now

HTML5 Cheat Sheet originally appeared on About.com Web Design / HTML on Tuesday, May 1st, 2012 at 08:00:41.

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