The place where I work, Seattle Children’s Hospital, is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year. To mark this occasion we created an online timeline of the major events in the hospital’s history.
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Would You Visit These US States Based on Their Web Sites?
Everyone loves tourists (or rather, their money). And US states are no exception. That’s why they have departments of tourism to promote them, and an official state tourism web site to do the same online.
Read MoreBBC News on Accessibility
Want to feel bad that your site isn’t as accessible as it could or should be? Looking to persuade a client that accessibility is something they should care about (and pay for)?
Novel Twist on Web Design Portfolio Pages
If you can get past the all-Flash web site, New City Media has a novel take on the -tired- traditional Flash portfolio approach — “info icons”.
Fly Out Menus: Can They Drop Up as Well as Drop Down?
I’m a regular user of the Weather Channel’s web site. However, other than plugging in my zip code and checking out the current and extended forecast, I’ve never really looked at the rest of the site.
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CSS Rounded Corners ‘Roundup’
This collection of techniques to create boxes with rounded corners using CSS has become quite popular. The problem now is there are so many choices it’s hard to know which one to choose.
Read MoreNew Brown University Home Page: Breaking Too Many Rules?
The new “Brown University”:http://www.brown.edu/ home page has been making a bit of a buzz recently (well, Jared Spool and friends have been “talking about it”:http://www.uie.com/brainsparks/tag/podcasts/spoolcast/ at least).
More Useful Firefox Extensions for Web Designers
I’ve been using the “Server Switcher Firefox extension”:http://hermann.czedik.net/projekte/switcher/ for a while now and it is turning into one of those extensions that I’d find it hard to manage without.
Practice What You Preach When Selling Usability Products
A project I’m currently leading involves setting up a management portal on our intranet.
To that end I need to do a number of card sorting exercises with a variety of users to see how best to organize the big list of resources we’ve come up with.
Experiments With and Thoughts About Tag Clouds
We’ve been looking into using tag clouds as an alternative means of navigation for a long lists of links that defy easy categorization.
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