Robert Denton

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Archive for March, 2004

Paper Prototyping Graphics (Design Usability Resources) – Information & Design

Thursday, March 11th, 2004

Paper Prototyping Graphics (Design Usability Resources) – Information & Design Usability Resources > Design > Paper Prototyping Graphics Many resources here.

Get yer ApacheMods Here

Wednesday, March 10th, 2004

Some very interesting and dynamic mods for apache listed at webthing.com. mod_accessibility is particularly interesting. It can be used with any Apache 2.0 server, and works as an output filter, transforming documents as they leave the server. This means it can be used with any content-generation software (such as CGI, PHP, mod_xml, or as a […]

Card Sorting

Wednesday, March 10th, 2004

Back in 1994 Jakob Neilsen, et.al. did a card sorting exercise for the Sun web site. This article “1994 Design of SunWeb – Sun Microsystems’ Intranet” explains the process.. Jorge A. Toro at CardZort Zone offers links to the topic of card sorting but also offers CardZort, a computer application to aid in card sorting […]

Table Striper

Monday, March 8th, 2004

Dom manipulation of a table — make mine striped please. The code below goes in the head of your document. All you need to do next is tag your table with an id=”something” and add an onload trigger to your body tag. <script language=”JavaScript” type=”text/javascript”> var TABLE_ROW_COLOR_DEFAULT = “#FFFFFF”; var TABLE_ROW_COLOR_HILIGHT = “#CCCCCC”; function stripeTableRows(tableObject,startRow) […]

NBS: The beginning of the end of the page

Thursday, March 4th, 2004

NBS: The beginning of the end of the page Incidentally, in the long view, I think the page paradigm will go away. It’s an artifact of the earliest HTML spec, and once we have a platform where Flash-like capabilities are widespread we’ll all be doing interaction design (interactions designers will need to learn information architecture […]