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.
How to Promote Good Communication Within Your Team
One of the challenges of working in a web team is ensuring adequate communication among team members. It is the nature of the work for it to be fairly isolating — especially if you’re coding away with your headphones on so you can concentrate.
Analyze Usability Test Results with Excel
One of the challenges in running usability tests is analyzing the data so as to obtain meaningful results — especially if you can’t afford or don’t need to use full-featured professional software.
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.
Read MoreThe Ten Levels of SEO
SEO Blog has an amusing and instructive post about the ten levels of SEO. It’s a long read but there really are some choice lines in there for anyone who’s been around in this field for a while.
Writing for Findability
Jacob Nielsen has a useful (although fairly common-sense) article on Useit.com today about “using old words when writing for findability”:www.useit.com/alertbox/search-keywords.html.
Web Awards: Are They Worth It?
A site we created for our Neurosurgery program recently won an ‘outstanding achievement’ award from the Interactive Media Awards. Read More
Quick Reference Guide to Movable Type Date Formats
I find myself referring to the Movable Type user manual a lot, especially the page on date formats. However — much like the rest of the user manual — this page is not very user-friendly. Read More
Pantone Fall 2006 Color Scheme
Looking for some color scheme ideas for your next design? Want to keep up with (or get ahead of) the seasons? I just came across Pantone’s Fashion Color Report for Fall ’06 (PDF 1.73MB).
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