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  • 5 Tips For Developing A Website For Your Audience


    Make Money OnlineAuthority Authority: 129
    Developing a website is important if you want to be a player in ecommerce . However, you don’t want to just develop a website any old way. Instead, you want to develop a website for your audience. When doing research online you have probably seen generalized information on how to develop a website, however it is ...
    14 hours ago
  • User Interface Design Is Not About Lorem Ipsum And Pretty Boxes.


    ThousandtyOne! - .NET, Life and Logical Thoughts By Rajiv PopatAuthority Authority: 460
    Wikipediadefines Lorem ipsum in a website design proposal as - generally incomprehensibleplaceholder text allows viewers to focus on the visual elements, rather than the content. Lipsum - theonline Lorem Ipsum generator is bullish about the Lorem Ipsum history and future: Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text ...
    1 day ago
  • EverydayUX morsels (November 19th – November 21st)


    EverydayUXAuthority Authority: 522
    Four Key Principles of Mobile User Experience Design – Boxes and Arrows: The design behind the design Nice thorough walk through some important high level concepts to consider when designing for mobile. 100 Strangers Project – a set on Flickr I absolutely love this project. Always wanted to do something like ...
    1 day ago
  • New Middle Web Sites: Techmeme and Google News


    Wap ReviewAuthority Authority: 513
    Techmeme , the popular tech news aggregator, launched a new mobile site yesterday.  The official announcement is here . I like what Techmeme has done,  The site, while targeted specifically at the iPhone, Android and Palm WebOS phones, isnt turning anyone away .  You can visit techmeme.com/m with any browser ...
    2 days ago
  • How to Write an “About Me” Page


    Best Web Image - Web Usability and DesignAuthority Authority: 127
    Whether visitors are on your blog or your business website, they expect to find an “About Me” or “About Us” page. For a blog it offers credibility, and a way to get personal with your audience. With a business website it can enhance credibility, it can present a better picture about your core functions, SELL, ...
    2 days ago
  • You Are Not Your User


    Marketing Technology BlogAuthority Authority: 530
    If you are an expert in your business, you know more than almost anyone about what you do and about the details of your product. Your product, by the way, can be a service, a website, or a tangible good. Whatever constitutes your product, you can likely see your expertise and genius in every part of it. The problem ...
    2 days ago
  • Full Frontal ‘09: Todd Kloots on ARIA and Acessibility


    Ajaxian Front PageAuthority Authority: 618
    Todd Kloots is talking accessibility and ARIA, with examples showing how YUI nicely supports these techniques. He explains how to improve in three areas: perception, usability, discoverability. Can We Do ARIA Today? Yes. Firefox and IE (he didnt say which version) have really good support for ARIA. And Opera, ...
    2 days ago
  • The Website Experience Nexus


    Web Developer and Content Management Expert Duo ConsultingAuthority Authority: 112
    Often in the creation of websites there is a tension between the tasks visitors want to accomplish and the messages companies want to market or the information they want to gain. With the exception of some social networking or entertainment sites, people expect a certain level of anonymity, and want to remain in ...
    2 days ago
  • Death to the file, long live the URL


    Jerz's Literacy WeblogAuthority Authority: 127
    Part of an Ars Technica review of Googles new operating system. Longtime Ars readers may be familiar with my periodic rants aboutthe increasing disutility of the "volume/directory/file" metaphor formodern networked machines. Saving files, copying them, syncingthem--this is all pointless clerical work that I want ...
    2 days ago
  • Daily Links for November 18th through November 20th


    Akkam's RazorAuthority Authority: 126
    All excerpts are quoted from the respective link(s). How Food Preferences Vary by Political Ideology - The data in this report shows a consistent pattern for conservatives to trend towards “homey”, familiar, comfort foods and meat-heavy options. They are more likely than liberals to indulge in fast food and ...
    2 days ago
  • 3 Guest Posts Of Mine


    SEO ROIAuthority Authority: 116
    @Search Engine Land: How predictive heatmap tools work and how they can lift your conversion rates . I write for SEL’s Just Behave (Usability/Conversion Optimization) column once a month. @Wolf-Howl: Why Google HQ Really LOVES Thin Affiliates . I write at Mike Gray’s site periodically, when I have something ...
    2 days ago
  • IDEO’s Human Centered Design Toolkit


    Simon WhatleyAuthority Authority: 110
    IDEO’s Human Centered Design Toolkit is a free innovation guide for NGOs and social enterprises. Human-Centered Design ( HCD ) is a process used for decades to create new solutions for companies and organisations. HCD can help you enhance the lives of people. This process has been specially-adapted for ...
    2 days ago
  • Solving Beer Estimation Difficulties


    the Human Factors BlogAuthority Authority: 118
    T he subtle change in the diameter of a glass can hide large changes in volume. Unfortunately for us, we’re terrible at estimating this, even when we logically know it to be true. For example, a few millimeters at the top of a pint glass equals an ounce of liquid, while the same height measure at the bottom of the ...
    2 days ago
  • How Many Books Dance on the Head of an e-Pin?


    The Scholarly KitchenAuthority Authority: 550
    Can the model used in the Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records be extended to embrace e-works? Or should it be trimmed instead?
    2 days ago
  • Four reasons why new websites flop


    Web CreativeAuthority Authority: 121
    Four reasons why new websites flop
    2 days ago
  • Use Gmail as Your Default Mail Application (Quick Tip)


    Firefox FactsAuthority Authority: 123
    There are a lot of Firefox features that don’t get much press, or are quickly forgotten about.  For example, did you know that you could switch to using Gmail or Yahoo! Mail as your default mail client (to handle those mailto links)? To chance your settings, go to Tools, Options and then click on the Applications ...
    2 days ago
  • Organic Textures VS Photoshop Brushes and Grunge Fonts


    Best Web Image - Web Usability and DesignAuthority Authority: 127
    With graphic design resources becoming increasingly available online, the allure to use them can be overwhelming. Talented designers from all over the world are consistently distributing new (and often free) graphic design tools – including, but not limited to, Photoshop brushes i.e., Splatter Brushes and grunge ...
    3 days ago
  • Online Persuasion in the Holiday Season, Part 1: Rule of Reciprocation


    VKI Studios BlogAuthority Authority: 466
    I recently wrote a post on the rule of reciprocation . The principle is simple enough: when someone does us a favor, we feel a strong impulse to give something back. Today Id like to examine a few ways in which we can use this principle to increase sales or leads over the holiday season. ...
    3 days ago
  • Industrial Ecommerce Merchandising with Images


    Industrial Search Engine MarketingAuthority Authority: 116
    As industrial ecommerce sites see more customers coming their way from the search engines, the need to have high quality, interactive images will increase. B2C sites are already using product zooms, multiple product views, interactive personalization, and other image techniques to increase time spent on site and ...
    3 days ago
  • 9 resources to create better HTML forms


    dzone.com: latest front pageAuthority Authority: 169
    Forms are a pretty boring piece of the Internet, it’s not fun to create and it’s not fun to interact with. Yet this is mostly our only way to communicate. We should strive to make better forms and make them as painless as possible to complete.
    3 days ago

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