Jeffrey Zeldman Presents The Daily Report Great entry on Clarendon’s cool retro look. Just as we are leaving it behind. I hope to wrangle Mrs. Eaves together to create something nice for the masthead. As delivered I am less than happy with it. Also this sent me on a journey on the worn look tour. […]
Our Documents – Executive Order 9981: Desegregation of the Armed Forces (1948) Very nice use of flash. Site to note!
Ray-Ban official website The worst flash implementation ever? No, it’s not horrible but it’s annoying and slow, so I guess it is horrible. At the end of the day html would have been better, faster, more accessible, as feature rich, and easier to use. As it stands navigating the Optical Collection is done by scrolling […]
Start-up shrinks PC to palm size | CNET News.com I want this in a bad way… Easy to read with, light to carry, plenty of muscle for web/email/cmd line coding or probably even a simple text editor which is all I will probably use on WinXP. Wonder if it runs Linux!!?
I regularly read stopdesign. Haven’t read in a while but found an entry like this one. 1. Grab the nearest book. 2. Open the book to page 23. 3. Find the fifth sentence. 4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions. And well I think that is kind of […]
How much human support does your website need?: April 26, 2004: New Thinking by Gerry McGovern Even vending machines require refilling and maintenance. McDonalds could not be run without its staff. The Web is often compared to a library. Well, where would a library be without its librarians? This is an interesting angle on a […]
Been thinking about the home page, and the site with regard to a search field on every page instead of a link to a search page. What comes first? Giving people the easy way to search or attempting to get them into your content? Some studies show that people look in the middle of the […]
Search Engine Optimisation and Accessibility
Navigation Study on Current University Websites Ken Kelleher prepared a useful overview of IA challenges on University web sites. Our main points he describes: – varied audiences – site architecture (taxonomy) vs. faceted view (audience gateways) He also lists a lot of the references I have in my bookmarks. This is a paper I have […]
Brown has an interesting entry point into their course web site pages. Essentially turns browsing course web pages into an application for viewing the data in different ways. You can filter based on department and semester. Very easy to do (given the right background architecture and likely increases the usability a lot.