Posted by Tommy on 19 Feb 2010 | Tagged as: Usability, Web Development
Never break the browsers back button. It’s one of Jakob Nielsen’s top design mistakes from 1999 and it still holds true over ten years later.
The back button is the web users fail-safe, it’s something they can draw comfort from when they’re lost in the depths of a website. I’ve observed many a test where users [...]
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Posted by Tommy on 11 Feb 2010 | Tagged as: Accessibility, Web Development
Not Google wave, but a free web accessibility evaluation tool from Webaim. Particularly useful for those of us working on Intranets as it can be installed as a Firefox add-on.
http://wave.webaim.org/
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Posted by Tommy on 20 Jan 2010 | Tagged as: Accessibility, Humor, Usability, Web Development
[Rant alert.]
My focus is mostly Intranets, however I sit next to our Web Team so often hear their grumblings of discontent, therefore I fairly confident what I am about to write translate to the world wide web as well.
We rely on subject experts to create and write content, often these subjects experts are policy officials [...]
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Posted by Tommy on 03 Dec 2009 | Tagged as: Usability, Web Development
Gerry McGovern in his book ‘Killer web content’ says:
“Here lies a major irony of the age of mass communication: the more communication people are exposed to, the more they are shutting off and depending on their gut instinct.”
Web users are impatient and ignore banner ads and pointless marketing content. It’s one of the reasons [...]
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Posted by Tommy on 24 Nov 2009 | Tagged as: Web Development
I have moved my website to a new (and hopefully more reliable) host….Wordpress have a great product here, which made migrating content simples (like a meerkat!)
I have also taken the opportunity to re-do the theme. I love my coffee and most people will be reading while drinking the stuff, so there is some logic!
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