On this page the following entries were made in the “November, 2004” time-frame.
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User-centric GUI Design Explained to All
Again with the slashdotting. But this is a continuation of a topic from last week, and here is some links to a few good articles. Enjoy, and I swear, no more slashdot links for at least a month.
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Browsers as test platforms
There is an interesting article from accross the pond about how to use browsers to develop and debug html structure, javascript, CSS etc. Read it and discuss below.
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Accessible Links
Some guidelines for accessible hyperlinks that I emailed to someone awhile ago…
Most important, make sure the actual link is descriptive (not just the surrounding text). Users of screen readers can tab through links and the screen reader reads only the linked content. If the link reads “Click Here” or “Download Now.”
If a graphic is really […]
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Are Usability & Security Opposites in Computing?
Not that Slashdot needs the traffic, but they are discussing something that might be of interest to this crowd. “Instinct tells us that computer security and computer usability are inversely proportional to each other…However, there have been plenty of cases where both computer security and computer usability went hand in hand with each other and […]
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Firefox is here!
I’ve used Firefox as my primary browser for development for the past year and it has performed great. I highly recommend it for you and your organization. From mozilla.org:
The wait is over. Firefox 1.0 empowers you to browse faster, more safely and more efficiently than with any other browser. Join more than 8 million others […]
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For profit, or not for profit
Having attended SXSW Interactive and the IDEAS conference this year, it was interesting to compare how the profit world and the non-profit/government world push design and usability forward. The profit world seems to be motivated by profit and market share, they government world by Section 508. Both have had their successes (wired.com, Library of […]
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Online Portfolios
I’m not yet super informed on electronic portfolios, but I had a few thoughts that I wanted to throw out and hopefully get some feedback. If you’re at all new to portfolios you may be asking yourself, “So how exactly is an online portfolio different from a regular old website?” My impression is that […]
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