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Web and New Media: January 2006
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Web and New Media. Friday, January 20, 2006. Drop-down menus and accessibility (or lack of). Thanks to Hannah Watson for posing a question about drop down menus and accessibility that prompted me to find this page. Dropdown menus for navigation are a bad idea and cause serious usability problems. Posted by Paul Bradshaw at 11:19 am. Links to this post. Thursday, January 19, 2006. Internet users judge Web sites in less than a blink. Posted by Paul Bradshaw at 12:30 pm. Links to this post. Sign up at http:...
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Web and New Media: April 2006
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Web and New Media. Wednesday, April 26, 2006. This from the latest email newsletter to USABILITY-NEWS@JISCMAIL.AC.UK:. LATEST NEWS - - -. Honda Website gets Impromptu Test and comes out Poorly. Source: UN, 24 April 2006. William Hudson of Syntagm asked members of the London Usability mailing list to try the following task, after his own experiences with the Honda website. Http:/ www.usabilitynews.com/news/article3074.asp. Young British People neglect Health and Lifestyle through Impatience. Http:/ www...
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Web and New Media: July 2006
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Web and New Media. Monday, July 31, 2006. Here's a very clear tutorial on using CSS to customise the appearance of links. Including styling specific links within other styles (e.g. if you want links on the navigation bar to look different to links elsewhere). Posted by Paul Bradshaw at 12:46 pm. Links to this post. Wednesday, July 26, 2006. Fix Your Site With the Right DOCTYPE. If this doesn't make much sense, read the much more extensive and better-written article by Jeffrey Zeldman. Links to this post.
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Web and New Media: June 2006
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Web and New Media. Wednesday, June 14, 2006. Teens turn away from e-mail. Typing, clicking, and waiting for a reply is " too complicated", apparently. As instant messaging and SMS increases their appeal. Posted by Paul Bradshaw at 11:13 am. Links to this post. Tuesday, June 13, 2006. New Online TV Network Aims for Young, Affluent. Another day, another new online TV station. Brandweek reports. On "Code.tv, an online television network set up by two former executives at MTV. Links to this post. F-Shaped Pa...
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Web and New Media: August 2006
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Web and New Media. Tuesday, August 15, 2006. Here's a great tool from AuditmyPC.com which will create a site map for you. It's a Java applet so you'll need Java enabled, and your site needs to be live for it to crawl. Oh, and another thing: it uses page titles to create the map, so make sure all your pages are titled meaningfully. And for those who want to target Google, they do another site map maker specifically for that search engine. Posted by Paul Bradshaw at 11:26 am. Links to this post. Screaming ...
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Web and New Media: March 2006
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Web and New Media. Friday, March 31, 2006. Great web design site. Thanks to Mindy McAdams. For pointing out this one: Web Design From Scratch. Is an excellent resource for all aspects of web design, from the design process itself to graphic design, site architecture, HTML and CSS. Posted by Paul Bradshaw at 8:50 am. Links to this post. Monday, March 13, 2006. PAS 78 Guide to Good Practice in Commissioning Accessible Websites. Posted by Paul Bradshaw at 1:46 pm. Links to this post. Links to this post.
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Web and New Media: February 2006
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Web and New Media. Thursday, February 23, 2006. Social bookmarking site Ma.gnolia. Has helped me find OnlyWire. A site that allows you to simultaneously bookmark to a dozen or so sites, including Del.icio.us, Blinklist, Furl, Spurl, and too many to list here, most of which I wasn't aware of. Well worth a try. Posted by Paul Bradshaw at 9:39 am. Links to this post. Tuesday, February 21, 2006. Jeffrey Zeldman has written one of the best articles I've read on the hype surrounding Web 2.0. Links to this post.
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Web and New Media: September 2006
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Web and New Media. Friday, September 29, 2006. Serving up content for mobiles. If you're producing content for mobile consider using a mobile style sheet to present it. A comment. By Staci Wolfe, however, says " it might not be as easy as it sounds. Http:/ www.htmldog.com/ptg/archives/000055.php. Http:/ www.macedition.com/cb/resources/handheldbrowsercsssupport.html. Posted by Paul Bradshaw at 11:24 am. Links to this post. Thursday, September 28, 2006. 12 Lessons for Those Afraid of CSS and Standards.
