John is a storyteller with design and development skills. By day he designs and builds websites and mobile apps, by night he spins sci-fi stories at
StoryLab
and counts his words carefully at
https://8wordstories.com
. He’s also a
pineapple in disguise
and writes
zombie themed web development books
. He’s been lucky enough to collect a wife and five kids along with six cats, four dogs, and a small army of fish. If he remembers to wear pants, it’s been a good day.
When someone reads a story, they have certain expectations about how that story will unfold. And they have them even if they don’t know how to articulate them. The same is true about users coming to our websites. We can pull principles from storytelling to help us meet and, hopefully, exceed those user expectations.
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Story structure can be the lens through which we view websites. It helps us step into the user’s shoes and understand where and how users interact with our websites. We, web professionals and site owners, are characters in their story and it’s about time we acted like it.
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Attribute selectors are magical. They can get you out of sticky problems, help you avoid adding classes and point out some problems in your code. In this article, John explains how to use attribute selectors the right way.
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From campfires to books to advertisements to film, stories have a power over us that no other human invention can wield. They calm us, thrill us, enthrall us and send us running back to the box office for another hit.
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