Category: User Experience

  • Ajax apps that don't break the Back button

    This stuff’s all over my head, but it seems to be talking about tricks to get the performance of Ajax applications in the browser without trading off the standard browser experience your users (and Jakob Nielson) have come to expect (Developing Ajax Applications That Preserve Standard Browser Functionality): To provide the traditional Web usability features,…

  • It's not nice to fool Mobhappy blogger

    The How Not To Deal With Blogs: A Case Study entry by Carlo Longino at MobHappy provides a perfect object lesson in how to get on the bad side of bloggers when dealing with them straight would have been much smarter.

  • Keen CMS Observations

    Anil Varma of Refinery makes some intuitive points regarding success factors for implementation of a Content Management System in this white paper (Four success factors for a Content Management System). As I frequently work with Extractable’s clients during the early stages of Content Management System evaluation, I strongly believe that understanding the business and user…

  • American First Credit Union site launches!

    We’re pleased to announce a successful site launch: American First Credit Union. Congratulations to the team that designed, developed, and deployed the site!

  • Google Code Analyzes the Markup of a Billion Pages

    The folks at Google Code have published some interesting analyses of HTML markup statistics and trends, complete with nice bar charts for us visual learners (Google Code: Web Authoring Statistics): In December 2005 we did an analysis of a sample of slightly over a billion documents, extracting information about popular class names, elements, attributes, and…

  • On the Usefulness of Meta Tags

    One of the oldest rules of Search Engine Optimization is the importance of meta description and keyword tags. They help search engines understand the content and context of each page they query. On my drive in to work today I thought a bit deeper about a strange occurrence I’ve begun to notice. I recently spent…