Just wanted to note this. We vetted the reasons why we can’t use a horizontal menu bar at the secondary, or departmental level navigation. Anyway, I was looking at this essay seven resolutions for 2004 and noticed how nice their navigation is… wishing we could somehow build and/or enforce a stricter sense of IA on […]
Is Navigation Useful? First bullet point: “users comment on the content first; if the content is not relevant, then they don’t care about any other aspect of the design” Link this to the discussion of the “page paradigm” and the recent mention of a survey (user testing?) done with location of search input fields vs. […]
Virtual Byron Love the masthead — what a great way to give you context and sense of place.
There is a need across campus to present galleries of photos which draw upon databases of photos. Several tools present photos and allow you to maintain a desktop catalog — iView is probably the strongest of the smaller applications. Others have template restrictions or don’t allow for the robust catalog management. How do you implement […]
Summary: Recent studies have shown that while the use of breadcrumb trails to navigate a website can be helpful, few users choose to utilize this method of navigation. This study investigates the effects of “mere exposure” and training on breadcrumb usage. Findings indicate that brief training on the benefits of breadcrumb usage resulted in more […]
Good Experience – The Page Paradigm Like another thought about bread crumbs wherein it is posited that people who use them tend to be the regular users of the site and not the visitors who are there just looking for something. Another thing I noticed and emphasized in a page design (currently re-worked by someone […]
AT&T Feed Room — Love the enormous grid and columns representing a topic area. This is sort of gutsy but maybe a feed room is meant to be just this straight forward. It works. But gosh RealPlayer is a stinky thing. Rueturs has the same layout. And their site works with Safari better.
This place has a lot of schools under their belt. I like the graphic design overall with reservations about details. Maybe more later — this is mostly a link spam. SilverPoint, Web Solutions for Schools
Metadata? Thesauri? Taxonomies? Topic Maps! Great resource for keeping it real.
Very interesting and probably the first time this has raised its head in the wild. Village of Pittsford web site It does extend the reading area while allowing for a glory shot. Would be very interesting to determine if anyone uses the feature..