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Byteflow usability quick change.
2008-06-07 00:00:00 Submitted this to the byteflow hackers, figured some might be able to use it as well. Code blocks don’t wrap lines (<pre>), probably want to have control of how it overflows. Here’s the patch: # HG changeset patch # User bsmith@linode.just-another.net- # Date 1212606740 14400 # Node ID 9337a362eeacbe88db2da11d38e238d-b2644e31b # Parent 93c1106436dd09dde52ec1dd25cfbbe-ca7cec00b Add scroll if lines don't wrap in code blocks. diff -r 93c1106436dd -r 9337a362eeac static/css/highlight.css --- a/static/css/highlight.css Wed Jun 04 09:47:44 2008 +0300 +++ b/static/css/highlight.css Wed Jun 04 15:12:20 2008 -0400 @@ -1,6 +1,7 @@ pre code { pre code { display: block; background: #F0F0F0; + overflow:auto; } pre code,
By: Just-Another.Net
Increasing pages per visit
2008-06-03 02:00:00 What is the current goal of your website? For some, it is to increase the conversion rate. For websites that sell advertising on a CPM (Click Per Thousand) basis, the goal is to increase the number of impressions per user.
Simple Steps to Improve Your Website Usability
2008-06-02 00:00:00 Simple Steps to Improve Your Website UsabilityNo one can argue that website usability is a must have these days. Make your website as simple as possible and users will love it. Make the purchase process as short as possible and your sales will boost. How? Here are a few very ...
rjvisuals
2008-05-28 06:59:00 It’s My Design Portfolio. I am Creative Interactive Media Designer from India.
By: Design You Trust
Steps To Improving Site Usability And Functionality
2008-05-27 15:42:00 Stop Now! You may be sending visitors packing with your blog design, and that’s not all, you are also reducing the likelihood that people will ever come back to your site again! First impressions are the most important thing, especially in this business where your blog design is representing YOU. Successful blog design has three ...
Fixed vs Fluid Website Layouts
2008-05-19 12:06:00 Want to know about the advantages of fixed and fluid website layouts? Then read this article.
Google finally does something about usability
2008-05-19 09:18:00 While Google has been talking about how they have made things faster on Gmail, and how much quicker it is to load now, there is another little change that they have made to Gmail, which is much more useful. It is the addition of a progress bar where there used to be a non-helpful, red, “Loading…” ...
By: Habitually Good
Windows XP versus Windows Vista – Usability
2008-05-17 00:49:00 4sysops – For Windows Administrators – We have seen three rounds so far, and Vista clearly won two of them (Security, Manageability) with knock outs and lost the last one (Reliability) on points, mostly because the old champion XP just picked up lots of experience in its countless fights over the last 7 years. Let?s see if the old man can also outlast the young challenger when it comes to elasticity and smoothness. ... read more
Getting the word out; SEO for PDF Files
2008-05-16 02:00:00 A great way to add value to your customer's visits to your website is to offer content in the form of .PDF files. The acronym stands for "Portable Document Format" and represents an Adobe PostScript file.
Usability; The Future Of SEO?
2008-05-06 07:06:00 Most businesses when they decide to invest in SEO services expect results almost instantly. Granted with efficient SEO techniques this is almost possible but it is all pointless if the host website is not user friendly. Usability is becoming increasingly the buzzword in the search engine optimisation industry as how a website services its customers ...
Rewriting the Beginner?s Guide Part VI: How Usability, User Experience and
2008-05-06 00:00:00 Posted by randfish I’m currently working on re-authoring and re-building the Beginner’s Guide to Search Engine Optimization, section by section. You can read more about this project here. How & Why "Great" Sites Rise to the Top of the Search Results The search engines are in a constant quest to better their results by providing the "best" possible ...
Building Online Communities - Usability and Design
2008-04-30 18:34:00 I decided to bundle these two issues together. Although usability and design already play a big part in websites in general, they play an even bigger part in online communities. Design Your design, is your identity. Your users will feel how much work you put into your site’s branding and identity. If your forum uses a common ...
Usability Testing Hardy Heron With a Girlfriend
2008-04-28 19:34:00 toomin writes “Reviews of the latest Ubuntu version, 8.04 Hardy Heron, are everywhere, but most of them are undertaken by geeks familiar with Linux. This guy sits his girlfriend down at a brand-new Ubuntu installation and asks her to perform some basic tasks. Some of them are surprisingly easy, others frustrate and annoy. There are ...
By: Pundit
Technological Change: Its Impact on Usability
2008-04-28 00:00:00 The Web has changed drastically since it started as a collection of physics papers in 1991. The first two years, it was a small type-only hypertext system used by a bunch of researchers, but in 1993 the first major GUI to the Web was introduced with the Mosaic browser. Our research into users’ interaction with ...
Complying with Design Conventions and Usability Guidelines
2008-04-28 00:00:00 The entire concept of “Web design” is a misnomer. Individual project teams are not designing the Web any more than individual ants are designing an anthill. Site designers build components of a wholeespecially now that users are viewing the Web as a single, integrated resource. Unfortunately, much of the Web is like an anthill built ...
Google Mini Search
2008-04-23 02:00:00 Search is important on the Internet, shouldn't it be important on your website or intranet? The Google Mini has been deployed on a wide range of websites built by Wiliam providing the best search in the world.
Technological Change: Its Impact on Usability
2008-04-15 07:33:00 The Web has changed drastically since it started as a collection of physics papers in 1991. The first two years, it was a small type-only hypertext system used by a bunch of researchers, but in 1993 the first major GUI to the Web was introduced with the Mosaic browser. Our research into users' interaction with Web sites and intranets has continued as the Web has evolved through generations of technologyfrom the gray pages in Mosaic through the colorful pages with table-based layout in Netscape to the multilayered, functionality-rich pages in Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE), which uses JavaScript and ever-growing Cascading Style Sheets (CSS).When we began our research in 1994, home users accessed the Internet primarily by dial-up modems with 28.8 kilobits per second (Kbps) throughput, while today most home users in the United States and many other countries have so-called broadband connections running at a few megabits per second (Mbps). (We refer to current cable modems and Dig...
Complying with Design Conventions and Usability Guidelines
2008-04-15 07:24:00 The entire concept of "Web design" is a misnomer. Individual project teams are not designing the Web any more than individual ants are designing an anthill. Site designers build components of a wholeespecially now that users are viewing the Web as a single, integrated resource. Unfortunately, much of the Web is like an anthill built by ants on LSD. Many sites don't fit into the big picture and are too difficult to use because they deviate from expected norms.Defining Standards and ConventionsStandard: Eighty percent or more of Web sites use the same design approach. Users strongly expect standard elements to work a certain way when they visit a new site because that's how things almost always work.Convention: About 50 to 79 percent of Websites use the same design approach. Users expect conventional elements to work a certain way when they visit a new site because that's how things usually work.Confusion: With these elements, no single design approach dominates, and even the most ...
Keep Evaluating Usability
2008-04-14 06:00:00 Website usability is a concept that is related to all of a site's visitors, not just those who need the assistance of screen readers. Usability is the dressed up term for how user friendly a site is and allows for measurability. How usable is your website to your citizens? Do you even know? Or have you heard some complaints or whisperings about how your visitors can't find what they are looking for? Website administrators and content managers need to always be thinking about usability. Just as the content of a website is always a work in progress, so is the usability. While some usability issues can be huge, and best implemented when a redesign of a website occurs, some adjustments can be smaller or more subtle. The latter can be implemented all the time. If you're curious as to how usable your site is, invite a random sampling of users to come in for a test. Outline some tasks that you would like them to complete., Sit with them as they do the tasks and note the following: 1) Su...
Compatibility and Usability of Microsoft VISTA and Wireless Adapters
2008-04-12 23:00:00 Those who have knowledge about the windows software, Microsoft VISTA and computer accessories, wireless adapters are not something new to them. Every person, whether a student or a business man, knows about these two things in their own way. Would you like to get proper information about them? We will tell you about them in brief, using the most simple language. First of all, do you know what Microsoft VISTA actually is? It is basically a series of graphical operations that are used on all personal computers, desktops as well as laptops. By November 2006, it was introduced to the computer hardware and software companies in the three stages. By 2007, it was introduced worldwide for the general masses. As it is made available for downloading on the Microsoft website, it is also known as Microsoft Window VISTA. The usability of Window VISTA can be judged by the fact that it is comprised of thousands of new and old features. For example, it includes the graphical user interface in the ...
Don?t Hurt Your Blog Usability
2008-04-07 09:19:00 The following is a list of things that can help you in increasing your blog’s usability. Navigation: There are variety of templates to give skin to your blog. But choosing the best template is a critical job. Templates with scroll down to the bottom of the blog to navigate are not the best choice. Stick to standard ...
VERTU V9 Constellation Hands on Usability Review: Should I Buy One?
2008-04-06 15:27:00 As promised an update hands on review of the VERTU V9 Constellation mobile phone, before I talked about the ?Unboxing the VERTU V9 Constellation Copy: Hands on review plus pictures? (See Here), and today I will let you know how I have got on with the handset after the last week or so. Many of you ...
By: Phones Review
Where To Put Your Links: Enhancing Website Usability
2008-04-01 07:00:00 The Internet is what it is because of connections, bridging one computer to a host of others. Because of this we are able to access information at a click of a button. The things we click are called links, and they can be likened to the synapses of a brain - connecting the user from ...
By: Resources zone
Can I use it? Evaluating Usability through Quick-UX.
2008-03-31 18:32:00 The first of the 3 primary components of Quick-UX, of which I will be discussing in greater depth, is the one of Usability. Put simply, Usability is a measure of how easy something is to use. In sticking with the primary goals of Quick-UX (quick assessment for summary, directional guidance, and quantitative comparison) the variables ...
By: The Product Guy
Use META DESCRIPTION as your advertisement copy!
2008-03-31 08:58:00 <META DESCRIPTION>- tag lost its shine after the emergence of off-page factors (like link popularity) for rankings in SERPS. In fact it lost its purpose to a great extent when Google started using contextual content from within the page as the description of the URL in its SERPS. However in an interesting turn of events, <META DESCRIPTION>- is back in business! Most ...
10 Blog Usability Guidelines
2008-03-29 10:32:00 As someone who has studied usability analysis, I’ve come up with 10 usability guideline which all new bloggers should abide by to help generate subscribers and interest in their site. Clean, simple design - With the hundreds of widgets and scripts now available, a lot of bloggers clutter up their sidebar with numerous bits of functionality, ...
Image Quality and Usability with Check 21
2008-03-24 14:54:00 Quality At the forefront of Check 21 are issues of image quality and usability and how to ensure that standards are met. Image quality refers to specifications that determine if images are: ? partial or heavily skewed ? piggybacked-an image scanned onto part of another image ? folded or have torn corners ? have excessive spot noise ? ...
By: Personal Finance
How To Optimize Images For Search Engines, Social Media and People
2008-03-15 15:49:00 Optimize your images for search engines: Keywords in alt text, text around the image, image name, page title; Preferred image formatting - jpg; Separate SE accessible image folder; Image freshness. (SEW suggests re-uploading your images to keep them fresh); Enabled image search option at Google webmaster tool. Reasonable image file size (see the discussion at WW) Limited number of images per page; Popular ...
[e-Learning Blog ] [cartoon] That’s usability
2008-03-15 00:00:00 Danke, da braucht man nicht mehr viel erklären: (via StuffThathappens und Communixx) ...
By: BlogNews
What is Information architecture?
2008-03-14 01:00:00 Everybody wants it, everybody says they do it, but what is Information architecture?
Usability: from caviar to sliced bread in just a few years?
2008-03-05 16:09:00 "Assuming a continued dedication by Yahoo to seeing its patent through (and similar inroads by its competition), usability experts will be a very well-fed group in 3-5 years' time."
Search engines opening up!
2008-03-03 08:42:00 Yahoo announced that they are opening up their search results for third party data integration. This will allow third party to contribute to Yahoo search experience and make it more useful for their users. It will be interesting to see how other webmasters use this open search platform to gain popularity by sharing data with Yahoo, while still retaining ...
Another iPhone usability study - InUse says that iPhone is easy to use,
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2008-02-26 05:42:00 To beat this particular cat to death, research firm InUse has just published another iPhone usability report. The iPhone's user-interface (which defines the user experience) is the most unique and arguably the most attractive on the market, but ju...
Information Architect / Usability Expert
2008-02-22 15:49:00 One of Sydney's leading web development firms operating at the cutting edge of technology and technique is looking to recruit an experienced Information Architect to take on the challenging role of ensuring our clients achieve the best solution to their business objectives and users' needs.
Usability Guidelines: Web Design for Users With Disabilities
2008-02-19 12:42:00 Free stuff! Slightly outdated (2001), but still useful stuff nonetheless. Provided by Nielsen Norman Group, apparently it's richly illustrated, which isn't strictly true, but the content offers some sound research about how people with disabilities access websites and how we as website designers should accommodate their needs. Download it now. Thanks to Matt Bailey for the link.
By: Sponge Project
Novarra Internet Update 7.0, iPhone Usability Rises
2008-02-14 08:15:00 iPhone World: Novarra, one of the mobile internet providers aimed at improving the experience (as well as smoothen the distribution of ads), and transcoder for both Vodafone UK and US Cellular, just released an upgrade for their platform. Updates include faster streaming, better handling of net code, improved Javascript support, among many other ...
By: iPhone World
Aperture 2 Announced, Speed and Usability.
2008-02-12 16:59:00 When Apple online store is down, there is always a chance that something new would pop up when it goes up. Same thing happened in the morning, Aperture 2 is for sale now. Aperture 2 ought to be the next major release of its professional photo editing and management software with over 100 new features ...
Mobile Game Usability and Design Guidelines
2008-02-11 17:46:00 Me and my colleague had a long conversation about mobile game design some time ago. It all started when I was sitting in a bar and cursing some mobile gambling game which had very inconsistent menus and behaved very irrationally after someone had tried to call me while I was playing a game. We started browsing ...
By: Mobile Gambling
Enhance Windows' usability with DM2's unique features (Must Have)
2008-02-07 17:10:00 DM2 is an open source application that packs several Windows enhancement features together that can help you greatly in your every-day work. Let us see what features DM2 can provide you. Minimize to floating icon This is one of the nicest and most popular features of DM2. DM2 can minimizes open windows to "floating icon". Floating icons are small floating semi-transparent rectangles (icons) that represents minimized windows. When a window is minimized to a floating icon, it doesn't appear in... ...
By: Instant Fundas
Calls To Action Follow-up: Who and Where?
2008-02-06 16:23:00 [Off topic] Mark Dykeman has just posted an interview with me so I decided to share it with my readers right away, please check it out: Catch the brainwaves with SEO Smarty! My previous post on calls-to-action attracted a number of comments asking for advice on my readers’ current website design. I am not a ...
Examples of Web Usability
2008-01-28 18:40:00 It’s not uncommon for someone to have questions about web usability. It does apply to a lot of facets in web design and development. Generally speaking, the definition of web usability refers to how usable a website is to a user. Good usability would be a site that’s relatively easy to use. In this article, ...
New York Financial Post Usability Study Paying $125
2008-01-27 03:16:00 For those of you who live in New York City or who are planning to visit the Big Apple in early February (hey, who doesn't want to visit NYC in February?)...The NY Financial Post is sponsoring a usability study. They are in need of participants for a usability test. The study will take place on January 31st, February 1st, 4th & 5th in New York City. This study is being conducted to learn how people use the Internet to conduct financial activities online.The NY Financial Post and the market research company says that the participants' info will be completely anonymous and held confidential.The people who are chosen to participate will receive $125 for a 75 minute usability session. To qualify for the study, you need to complete this survey form - http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.a-spx?sm=r4kRUzczGi27bTfKDbA5KQ_3-d_3d
Improve Usability of Your Website
2008-01-25 20:04:00 No matter how brilliant your website design is, if it is hard to reach the content of your site then your site is as useful as an empty shell. Here are some tips to improve the usability of your website to ensure it serves its functions optimally. The first method is to make sure ...
Project management softwares reviewed
2008-01-25 08:10:00 Proper project management is key to a successful project. To manage multiple projects and teams which are geographically spread across the globe, you need a quality project management tool. As a medium sized web development company, we looked around for some quality software which suits our requirement and does not burn a hole in the pocket. Here is our ...
Usability or User-Experience?
2008-01-25 04:53:00 Stoney deGeyter recently wrote a great post on when usability is more important than SEO. Stoney ends by stating “By fixing usability issues you can sell more while without having to spend a lot of money always trying to bring in a lot of new traffic. A little goes a long way. Once you are ...
Drive paid search ad conversion with basic usability principles
2008-01-24 14:36:00 What’s nice about using paid search advertising to promote your products and services is that programs like Google AdWords give you a vast amount of analytical insights and optimization tools. With a reasonable budget to get the campaign off the ground, its manager can cover it from every angle: well-chosen keywords, smartly written ads, and well-tailored landing pages. The irony is that usability, often one of the most overlooked bedrocks of a well-oiled e-commerce machine, has the ability to single-handedly derail the whole effort. In a recent article by Stoney deGeyter pitting usability vs. SEO, we are introduced to a fairly common scenario. A small business owner has a large base of potential customers, but only a small proportion are buying anything. Does she try to get in front of more potential customers, or does she try to convert more potential customers into actual paying customers? In Stoney’s article, at the heart of the matter is the notion that SEO (searc...
15+ essential plugins for wordpress usability and minimalism
2008-01-24 05:25:00 There are so many wordpress plugins out there, it is very easy to get lost and crazy. Actually, there is a plugin for everything (even battlestar galactica!). But having many plugins slows down the performance of your blog and it just clutters it with visuals, which distract the reader from the content. This is a list of the 10 Zoom(s)
Metal-Music-Videos.Com Developing - New Theme With Higher Usability
2008-01-23 14:33:00 I am glad to inform that I have found a good theme for Metal-Music-Videos.Com blog. It took me a while to crawl through the net and find a suitable theme. I am satisfied with this theme. I figured out that my previous theme and the whole layout sucked, so I decided to make some changes. ...
Open-source products are great. But know the limitations before you use it.
2008-01-23 09:25:00 Apart from doing software / web development on Open-source platform, Indus Net Technologies also customize and implement open-source products for clients on demand. Some popular (and free) open-source products are SugarCRM, Drupal, osCommerce for CRM, content management and e-commerce respectively. IMHO, these are some limitations that I have observed. It is important to know them before ...
Manual Seo for Wordpress Optimization
2008-01-17 18:28:00 Wordpress is an excellent, efficent blogging platform to create the foundations of what could be a very successful website/blog. Wordpress it's self has many plug-ins, with more & more being created on a weekly basis covering all aspects of Seo (search engine optimization) & other useful things. More on towards the Seo (search engine optimization) part of Wordpress, many new webmasters may not truely understand Seo; what it does & what it can really achieve, however for the minority that do understand Seo you will already know that Wordpress is least impressive for it's Seo with its "factory state" settings. Below the Resonate Seo Consultancy has made some excellent techniques to which will bring your un-impressive optimized Wordpress to a very good standard ready for search engines. The two instances given below are the most important & effective "on-site" optimizations you can do to better optimize your Wordpress blog for the search engines. ... |
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