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There was a large amount of interest in last month’s Web Application Form Design article, so I decided to provide some additional details.
- Label Placement in Forms :: UXmatters uxmatters.com
Evaluating label placement in forms with eyetracking.
1. How is FeedBurner impacting on the way we understand media? 2. What kind of information about their readers do media and advertisers want? 3. RSS and television 4. How can RSS be developed?
Broken Windows Theory and Your Web Site says visiting a site with broken links, misleading navigation, or missing images is like visiting a neighborhood where “you get the feeling that no one cares.”
It turns out that most of web page performance is affected by front-end engineering, that is, the user interface design and development.
Designed to satisfy the curiosity of webmasters, surfers and web marketing professionals seeking a better metric to quickly assess a site/page's relative importance and visibility.
- IE expressions ignore CSS media types | 456 Berea Street 456bereastreet.com
The problem occurs when you use Microsoft’s proprietary CSS expressions. Any declarations that contain an expression will be applied when printing.
- Click here and other meaningless link phrases | 456 Berea Street 456bereastreet.com
"One of those things that you have to keep educating clients about: writing good and informative link phrases." About 5 or 6 times a day, normally.
Not a full fledged comparison of both products, but I thought it might be of interest for other people as I came out with some interesting differences that might help someone else make their mind about them.
A jQuery plugin for embedding Flash movies.
- Natalie Downe » Blog Archive » Inline image quotes notes.natbat.net
A block quote [...] with speech marks at the front and termination of the text but without the nastiness of inline images.
- XFN - XHTML Friends Network gmpg.org
A simple way to represent human relationships using hyperlinks
- wg:Printing CSS background images (sort of) web-graphics.com
Using list-item to display images in print stylesheets.
- Adactio: Extras: Getting Microformats adactio.com
Big list of microformats resources
The following will build a successful site in one years time via Google alone.
A few weeks ago, npemap.org.uk launched. It's an interface for browsing scans of out-of-copyright maps from the 1950s. The site asks people to enter post codes based on that old mapping data, which can then be placed in the public domain.
Summary of accessibility legislation by country.
Mix any number of RSS feeds into one unique new feed.
- No Man's Blog: 10 Questions with Jonathan Harris nomansblog.typepad.com
Asi interviews Jonathan Harris, "the artist behind such great recent projects as Yahoo! Time Capsule, We Feel Fine, Loveliness and Phylotaxis".
- CSS: Browser testing order | And all that Malarkey stuffandnonsense.co.uk
Unless we are working to support a client's specific browser matrix (which might include odd combinations of older browsers), this is the order in which we test our CSS in browsers.
- BarCamp / minibar barcamp.org
A chance to snaffle some free beer while discussing p2p, Creative Commons, web applications, social networking and general Web 2.0 mayhem & fandango.
Some interesting figures from social networking company executives here at the Web 2.0 Summit1. Cyworld and MySpace are, more than ever, heads and shoulders above the competition.
- BookMooch: a community for exchanging used books (book swap and book exchange and book trade) bookmooch.com
A community for exchanging used books [...] lets you give away books you no longer need in exchange for books you really want.
Choose LEGEND text that is:Concise: between 1 and 6 words; Relevant: to every single form field in the FIELDSET; Seamless: in that the words chosen for the LEGEND should make sense when joined to each label phrase.
- Joe Clark Micropatronage joeclark.org
I’m appealing to supporters to donate small amounts to support me while I start up a research project.
The biggest barrier in the networked world is convincing groups of people, not just individuals, simply to use (or even try!) your software.
Topics: 1. How designing for the web has changed / 2. How to measure the impact of usability checks / 3. Life at Google - and how Measure Map is playing out / 4. The state of the industry
- Masuga Design » Unobtrusive AJAX Star Rating Bar masugadesign.com
A rating bar script done with PHP and mySQL
- POW | Firefox Add-ons | Mozilla Corporation addons.mozilla.org
Turn the web on its head with the Plain Old Webserver (POW), which adds a server to your browser.
My CSS Framework and Modular CSS articles touched on maintainability but here I am going to expand on those ideas, and attempt to suggest some guidelines to make team CSS coding and maintenance easier.
A Javascript + CSS replacement for Flash photo fading slideshow. Inspired by Richard Rutter's image fade demonstration.
- Interface elements for jQuery - About Interface interface.eyecon.ro
A collection of plugins for jQuery java script library
- Tetris with jQuery fmarcia.info
- Juicy Studio: Firefox 2.0 and Access Keys juicystudio.com
"Firefox 2.0 uses Shift+Alt as the keystroke combination to invoke access keys. On the surface, this appears to be a great idea, as it avoids clashing with the shortcut keys used for the browser. Unfortunately, the new behaviour has been poorly implemente
- Accessibility statements or Site help pages? | 456 Berea Street 456bereastreet.com
Are we supposed to stop providing them now? No, not really, but perhaps we should replace them with something better.
If some javascripts are only used by a small percentage of your visitors - why load them each time? It will only cost you bandwidth and your visitors download time [...] Lazy loading is the key. Or dynamic loading of .js files if you will.
- Server Switcher | Firefox Add-ons | Mozilla Corporation addons.mozilla.org
Allows you to easily switch between sites on your development and live servers.
How useful accessibility pages provided on a selection of UK Web sites were to users - in particular older people without significant impairments, but who may soon benefit from accessibility information.
One-click access to various services that provide information about the web site you are viewing.
- Technology For Marketing 2007 - TFM Awards t-f-m.co.uk
Technology For Marketing Awards
"For many sites that reference dozens of external objects, the majority of the page load time is spent in separate HTTP requests for images, javascript, and stylesheets. AJAX probably could help, but speeding up or eliminating these separate HTTP requests
- Abbreviations, Acronyms, Initialisms | mono larsholst.info
Ignoring <abbr> in favor of <acronym> is wrong for two reasons.
"I've picked one lucky website [...] and one of their primary keyword phrases "snowboard equipment" [...] to illustrate how you should perform searches that will result in high quality link acquisition targets."