Call me a cheap bastard or an intellectual socialist, but I can’t seem to swallow the idea that I should be paying to read a research paper that was so prominently marketed to news agencies from a university study. After reading Seth’s post the other day on a story about a study entitled, “Attention web [...]
Seth points us to Web users judge sites in the blink of an eye, a post on a new study that shows that you your website doesn’t have eight, five or even three seconds to wow the visitors to your site, you have about 50 millisececonds.
I guess design and the above-the-fold content better matter.
Sounds like Ontario is the likely place to hold a Web Conference — at least for Canadians wanting to meet in the middle. Mr. Kim Siever over at hotpepper.ca mentioned that he has received feedback that the best place for a Canadian Web Dev and Design Conference might be in Southwestern Ontario (The Golden Horseshoe).
I [...]
To all the Canadian developers and designers for the web, I noted a post on [thelist] the mail list of evolt.org wanting to know if their are any Canadian Web Developer/Designer conferences. It seems as if this is an unheard of event. If anyone out there knows of any other event besides Flash In [...]
I received and email from someone whose site I reviewed in the Web Standards Group mail list, thanking me for the comments and complimenting me on my site. In her comments she suggested that I use “a serif font for your body text (not headings) for readability.”
This surprised me. I had never heard anyone [...]
I just read a great post by Roger Johansson at 456 Berea Street entitled A Web Professional can Never Stop Learning.
In it he talks about the idea that people who build websites using old, outdated methods should not be considered web professionals. Citing several recent post by other standards, and accessibility advocates, he points to [...]
Usability guru, Jakob Nielsen, posted Top Ten Web Design Mistakes of 2005 today. It reinforces many of the views that I hold regarding website design in the post “pretty-is-better” era.
If you are looking for great information on usability, interface design and other progressive web design issues, Signal Vs. Noise is definitely a great hub and resource for anyone.