What does it take to be successful on the Web? The answer to that is simple and yet not so simple: Provide relevant information. Make it easy to discover… >>> Read the rest of this guest article on Dr. Terry Etherton’s blog at
blogs.das.psu.edu/tetherton.
Aside from the usual reasons why it’s silly to duplicate static content from Web page to Web page, here is yet another: Read the rest of this entry »
Soliciting Web site user feedback. Posting online surveys. E-mailing listservs. Pulling together focus groups. Is this the long and the short of the plan for guaging the effectiveness of your Web site?
If so, you will be rewarded with a wide scattershot of commentary, much of which is neither accurate nor usable. Read the rest of this entry »
While usability testing lab software and equipment is great if you have it, screen-capture software can take you pretty far in recording usability test data and sharing it with others. Read the rest of this entry »
The following series of videos are of an informal usability study that I conducted using plone.org as the subject. These videos were captured using Camtasia screen recorder…
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Here’s one that’s been buzzing around universities for the past several years: The desire to make the Web presence and brochures look like “a family of publications.”
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Pick a higher education Web site. Any higher education Web site.
Likely what you’ve got is the agglomerated result of battling needs, wants, and not a little politics.
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Last week I quite thoroughly blew up the Ubuntu installation on my test server. This was after repeatedly taking various approaches to installing Zope/Plone on Dapper Drake (both by apt-get and Synaptic installer) and getting the same I/O error over and over and over and over and over…
IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied
Meanwhile, threads on the Ubuntu Forum point to a bug in Dapper Drake that makes it seriously difficult to set up Zope/Plone.
I recently heard tell of the following activity, parading as content migration to an enterprise level content management system. I am not making this up:
When I heard this, something inside me snapped.
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