CHI*A presents its monthly event. This month it’s AJAX. AJAX: Time for the Transformation of Web Applications Steve Benfield of ClearNova delivers a presentation on AJAX and its business applications. When: Thu, Sept 22, 6:30 p.m. Where: Macquarium, 1800 Peachtree St, Suite 250, Atlanta How much? FREE
[12 Sep 2005]
While searching the SURL site, I noticed that many of the page titles were cut off. I won’t go in to what makes a good page title, or why page titles are important. But perhaps Google should add the title attribute — featuring the complete page title — to each link. When a user moused-over, [...]
[27 May 2004]
This month’s newsletter discusses “Some Considerations for Doing Usability in the Global Markets,” featuring links and other groovy analysis about how culture and language affect usability efforts. Of particular interest is the link to Hofstede’s Dimension of Culture Scales, which give you a sense of how hierarchical and individualistic (among other traits) a particular society [...]
[3 Apr 2004]
I was trying to log in to check my account balance on my Fleet Bank-issued credit card. I entered my user name and password, and … nothing. So I tried again, and nothing … I realized at this point that the log in I was using just wasn’t working. But I couldn’t figure out why [...]
[10 Mar 2004]
Mark Hurst over at Good Experience discusses goal-centered user patterns. His claims have launched a nice debate about whether a goal-centered approach to design is the best. IndiaCHI offers a nice overview of the debate, and ideas about the middle ground. More on “The Page Paradigm” from… Christina Wodtke Michael Angeles Peter Merholz
[3 Mar 2004]
In case you missed it: Joshua Porter suggests using media-specific CSS to serve up different information based on the device used. Porter writes: The medium is the message: Imagine providing unique information exclusively for people who read your site via a web-enabled cell phone — then crafting a different message for those who are reading [...]
[23 Feb 2004]
At the newspaper site I work for (ajc.com), our style is to open external links in a new window. It’s a pretty standard web convention. Yahoo! mail and Hotmail.com do it. Most newspaper sites do it. Heck, I’ve even done it on my own site. But based on accessibility standards and my own experience as [...]
[14 Feb 2004]
Aetna’s DocFind® allows members to search its database of doctors by zip code, city and county (in addition to name and specialty). If you want to search by "ZIP code", you are forced to choose a state as well. View a larger version At the next screen, you’re prompted for your zip code, a distance [...]
[4 Jan 2004]
UPDATED to fix a broken link and correct some technical issues. I recently switched from dynamic URIs to faux-static ones. Here’s how to do the same on your site. I’m going to assume that you’ve already got your own PHP/MySQL-driven publishing system in place, and that you currently use dynamic URIs on your site. Step [...]
[22 Dec 2003]