Here's a simple question, and one which I feel should have a definitive answer.

Assuming that an asterisk is the correct way to indicate a required field in a form, where should it go?

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Posted in: Web Design | 23 Comments

Just a quick note to say that I've gathered together a navigation design showcase with 70+ examples.

I've specifically avoided including (too many) examples where the navigation is overly creative as I figured these wouldn't be as useful to a wider audience.

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Posted in: Showcases | Tools & Resources | Web Design | 6 Comments

Condomunity has an excellent article about writing good headlines and includes a cautionary tale about the cost of writing a dull headline (hint: lots of lost traffic).

The exhaustive article pretty much covers everything you need to know on this subject, including:

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Posted in: Writing for the Web | 3 Comments

Cameron Moll poses a great SimpleQuiz-style question on writing good links:

How do we select the particular words that are linked within a sentence or paragraph, and does it matter for the user?

There's an interesting discussion in the comments, but with nearly 200 it's hard to know which option was the most popular.

So, I created a quick poll to help, with Cameron's original 7 choices and a few of the more popular options listed in the comments.

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Posted in: Writing for the Web | 11 Comments

On October 12, 2008 NCsoft colleague Richard Garriott is going into space. He will be the 6th private citizen to do so.

Richard is the vision behind our science fiction MMORPG Tabula Rasa. To celebrate his trip we asked Richard to take with him an 'immortality drive' — an electronic archive of mankind's greatest achievements, digitized human DNA. and messages from people worldwide.

To promote this event we created the Operation Immortality web site.

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Posted in: Real Life | Web General | 4 Comments