Much more than your home page or even your website. unless your an entertainment site, your site isn’t a desitnation, your content is. googleability / search friendliness is key. more people find you via google. only a handful of day to day destination sites ( google, amazon, yahoo) presence is being part of a 2 […]
I quietly launched Soccer Blogs earlier this month but, after some useful critiques from my design friend Nam-ho, I tweaked the layout and added aggregate RSS and Atom feeds. I’ve been working on this, as time and World of Warcraft addiction allow, since mid summer. I wanted to try out aggregating feeds and, this is
Scott Berkun, who designed and worked on the development of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer versions 1 to 5, explains why he switched to Firefox. He has great praise for the design team, particularly those who have kept the browser focused on appealing to the mainstream user. “Firefox feels to me like what IE 6.0 should have
In case you haven’t heard yet, the Google Maps API has been made public. This opens up their mappping capabilities to more developers without having to rely on the hacks and workarounds you may have seen earlier. Here are my ideas for some useful applications: A map view of an address book type list. It
Message Overload: The people who visit your site dont care about it nearly as much as you do. Im thinking specifically of message areas. At best, if you’re providing your own messaging system, you should open it up so that users can get to it from outside your site. Email is probably a safe choice
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I haven’t been able to post much in the last week. On top of trying to get enough work done so that we can go to LA for the MLS Cup, one of the hard drives on our server had to be replaced last Friday. Since then, I’ve been recovering/learning about how to install the
Thunderbird 0.9, the mail client from the Mozilla project, is now available. If you’re wondering what’s new in this release, Asa details two of the most useful new features available: saved searches and message grouping. Evolution, the outlook clone from Ximian, has saved searches/virtual folders too. It’s a feature I didn’t quite use as much
If you’re like me and eventually want to find the time to try building a rich, XUL based application
It’s not everyday I recognize something from the Human Factors courses I slept through: mezzoblue § Fitts’ Law. Now, if only we can make use of Therbligs to analyze motions during user interaction… A larger clickable area means less precise mouse movement is required to focus on the link. Without impacting the design in any
At least in sales pitches? From DivaBlog: What if Mozilla were to win in the end? Anyway, the presenter was doing his pitch in a polished way and at one point he said he wanted to show us a “really cool” feature and he looked up into the audience and said “Show of hands…How many