Archive for April, 2007

28 Apr

Bloggers Share Step-by-Step Tips for Increasing Blog Usability

Twenty Usability Tips for Your Blog — Condensed from Dozens of Bloggers’ Experiences is a great step-by-step guide on how to improve the usability of your blog, and improve your visitor’s experience.
I’m particularly fond of the About Page point.
But I also have long been a fan of “Archive by Topic Not Date” and […]

16 Apr

Validating Multiple Pages on Your Blog

Validating one web page full of code on your WordPress blog doesn’t help you find all the errors that may be hiding out among all the various pages and page views on your blog.
The W3C Canada Validator validates multiple pages on your blog, tracking down errors across the different pages and page views. You can […]

11 Apr

Experts Discuss the Future of ?Ease of Use? - Simplicity vs. Functionality

PALO ALTO, Calif. — A panel of experts on “ease of use” whose experience ranges from technology design to behavioral psychology agreed rather ruefully Wednesday (April 4, 2007) one of the most complicated challenges in electronic engineering is simplicity.Their conclusions echoed the irony of one audience member—an attorney with Silicon Valley law firm Wilson, Sonsini, […]

10 Apr

Helvetica Font turns 50 Years Old!

The Helvetica font is a widely used sans-serif typeface developed in 1957 by Swiss graphic designer Max Miedinger. Originally called Neue Haas Grotesk, the typeface’s name was changed in 1960 to Helvetica — derived from Helvetia, the Latin name for Switzerland — in order to make it more marketable internationally.
Here’s how popular the font has […]

07 Apr

Blog Design: How Many Columns?

Mark from Weblog Tools Collection offers Two or Three Columns?, his perspective on how many columns a blog should have.
I personally prefer one column themes with a minimal second column. Most information that is put on my sidebar(s) is extraneous and could be placed elsewhere. I have also found that some of that information deters […]

07 Apr

Wackiest Product Warning Labels

To highlight the wacky side of usability, here’s a CNN/Money article on the wackiest product warning labels. With the stupid things people do and the litigious society we live in, you have to wonder how we came to arrive at this point in time.
Toilet brush wins wacky bowl
Michigan anti-lawsuit group gives out “awards” for wackiest […]

05 Apr

Lorelle is Naked

Oh, no. Don’t look, Ethel!
Yes, Lorelle is naked. Well, at least Lorelle on WordPress is naked.
Today, April 5th, is CSS Naked Day, a day bloggers and website owners can honor web page design and designers around the world by turning off your stylesheet for the day.
UPDATE: Over 1600 sites are listed as participating on […]