205 posts tagged readability
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Web Design Best Practices (part 2): Accessibility
http://blog.bsl.com/ 2008/ 05/ web-design-best-practices-part-2.htmlIn addition to acknowledging that users have developed habits of interaction over the years, every well designed site should be accessible to the largest (target) audience possible. But accessibility goes farther than that.
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Transmission 1.2 released
http://apple.rockerreport.com/ transmission_1_2_releasedThe new dock badges provide greater readability of the transfer in progress. Transmission is freeware and can be downloaded from their website.
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What’s Your Geek Rating? Take The Blog Readability Test And Find Out Now.
http://80feetroad.blogspot.com/ 2008/ 05/ whats-your-geek-rating-take-blog.htmlHey all you blogger’s out there. Want to know whether your postings is for people with the geek bent of a mind or plain Jane’s and Jack’s can read and understand them? There is this site offering a tool that somehow determines the intellectual level that is required for reader’s reading your posts.
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The truth about hyphenated domain names
http://www.websy.net/ blog/ Domain-Name/ 2008/ 05/ domain-name/ truth-hyphenated…The truth about hyphenated domain names May 10, 2008 – 2:06 pm There is a lot of confusion about the use of hyphens being used in domain names. While researching hyphenated domain names I found a lot of conflicting information so I will give you a distilled view of what is currently believed to be the facts regarding hyphens in domains.
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Shorter sentences and shorter words
http://clear-writing-with-mr-clarity.blogspot.com/ 2008/ 05/ shorter-sentences-a…Your common sense says so. And psychological research has proved it. In general, long sentences are harder to read than short sentences. And long words are harder to read than short words. So, another easy way to produce clear writing is to keep your sentences and words short. Here’s what not to do.
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Arithmetic
http://blog.clayvalet.com/ dev/ 2008/ 05/ 08/ arithmetic/Arithmetic May 8th, 2008 by Ken Harris Just when I was beginning to think that maybe Ruby’s slight edge in readability made up for its big loss in consistency, I needed to use rational numbers: Ruby: Rational(3,5) Lisp: 3/5 Languages like Ruby and C are basically infix for arithmetic, and prefix
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algorithms
http://awaitinganame.wordpress.com/ 2008/ 05/ 08/ algorithms/I remember learning about algorithms in maths and thinking how they would never have any interesting use for me. And now I’ve been proved wrong. I found this website which has a Readability Test. It uses algorithms to calculate how easy it is to read a webpage. So here are the results for the very page your eyes are reading now..
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Getting people to read key information
http://readability.wordpress.com/ 2008/ 05/ 08/ getting-people-to-read-key-infor…On your web pages you want to connect with your reader - but did you know that people don’t read web pages? If you’re wondering what the point of writing killer copy if people aren’t going to read it, then here are some tips to make the words connect as much as possible.
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Writing code for human beings: IN, OUT and INOUT
http://blog.radvision.com/ codeofcontact/ 2008/ 05/ 08/ in-and-out-in-radvision-…Checking the searches that lead people to this blog revealed that they search for “Radvision INOUT”. Thus, on public demand, I will explain the super-secret-non-more-secret parameter guidelines. From RADVISION’s common type definitions: /* Some "empty" definitions that we can use for readability of
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Can You Understand This? or Learning Internet Style
http://biskupfamily.blogspot.com/ 2008/ 05/ can-you-understand-this-or-learning.…The internet is fascinating. Approximately an hour ago I was checking my email when I came across a person's blog that I wanted to check out. As I was reading some of her posts, I happened upon a stylish banner graphic on her right sidebar that indicated her blog's readability score.
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