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. […]
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 […]
Stopdesign | Using Background-Image to Replace Text Nice roundup of image replacement techniques for keeping typographic control over headers yet still delivering text for the viewers who can’t see images.
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information architecture for designers – the site for the book New book to buy? This book will likely be a lot like Don’t Make Me Think! which provides a lot of basic reminders with many unique connections made as well. It claims to be a practicum for IA rather than a study of theory. To […]
mezzoblue – Positioning and the Cascade Positioning and the Cascade Something to add to the library? In the next few days I want to get my sandbox in better order. Perhaps over this weekend my puttering work will be about my tool kit rather than silly sites at the college.
Cross browser function for retrieving global/external CSS properties Cross browser function for retrieving global/external CSS properties
3-col layout via CSS 3-col layout via CSS Purports to fix the column length problem in CSS but I am skeptical. The best solution may be to simply add a background image to a fixed column width.
peterme.com: The Oversimplification of Mark Hurst The Oversimplification of Mark Hurst In his latest “Good Experience” email, Mark offers a series of notes for successfully addressing what he refers to as “the page paradigm.” Unfortunately, he’s misguided as often as he’s on target. Mark is basically correct when he states: – – – – – […]