From a favorite email list, now you can have your very own project timeline How to Build a Web Page in 25 Steps Download a piece of Web authoring software ~ 20 minutes. Think about what you want to write on your Web page ~ 6 weeks. Download the same piece of Web authoring software, because they [...]
Business 2.0 - How To Succeed in 2003 is a gallery of advice from the best in their fields including Michael Dell, Tina Brown, Dean Kamen, and even Kathy Ireland (yes, the girl with the body). Jeremy Anwyl hit the nail on the head with his Build a Better Website advice.
Christopher Schmitt, author of Designing CSS Web Pages, has written a tutorial for changing your headlines from drab to awe in Making Headlines With CSS.
Remember Googlefight? Meet SpellWeb, which is Spellfight version of Googlefight. Find out if "Email" or "E-mail" is more popular. Alas, capitalization makes no difference since it’s not case sensitive. The point here is not to argue over which way to spell electronic mail is correct, but to see which is being used more often. Therefore, if [...]
Kenneth Tibbets has written a thorough review on Opera 7 at Webreference. The review covers five basics: JavaScript gotchas, NodeLists, style gotchas, keyPress events, and display and scrollTo gotchas.
I typed a long ramble about processes sparked by an email from Steve Pilgrim. Today, I went to go post it through my PDA (big mistake) and lost it all. So @#($* @#$(* about it. Instead of rewriting the rambles, I’ll direct you to Digital Web Magazine’s new topic for December: IA Navigation. Starts with an [...]
The Gnome Knows is a case study from New Architect that explores the leap into paid newsletters.
In Improve Usability and Double Your Return on Investment, Jakob Nielsen says, “There are two big areas of improvement that would double customers’ ability to effectively use the design, thus doubling the company’s benefits from offering the features to the customers. The application must be better integrated with the website, and the Macromedia Flash design [...]
Just took care of my assigned gift receiver as part of the fun Secret Santa project. This is my second year participating and it’s wonderful doing something for someone with whom I am not acquainted. No revealing who the good kid is until the present has arrived.
“Taxonomies have recently emerged from the quiet backwaters of biology, book indexing, and library science into the corporate limelight. They are supposed to be the silver bullets that will help users find the needle in the intranet haystack, reduce ‘friction’ in electronic commerce, facilitate scientific research, and promote global collaboration. But before this can happen, [...]