Category: User Experience

  • Trellix and Blogging, Part 2

    Per Scriptingnews, here’s a discussion of the integration of Blogger with Trellix, a step toward folding the blog model into more full-fledged content management system solutions.

  • Dreamweaver Installed Base vs. User Base

    Scot Hacker jots in his personal blog about going to a Macromedia demo in S.F. and still preferring his native coding environments to Dreamweaver MX. He wonders if the large numbers of developers installing Dreamweaver are actually using it day-to-day. Read his post and some followup comments to find out more.

  • plasticbag Slags and Defends Dreamweaver and Blogger

    Also from plasticbag.org, a twist on the anti-webtool attitudes you sometimes see from hardcore or longstanding hand-coders. Tom Coates makes the point that the tools used to make work easier or to enable shortcuts are not responsible for the lousy design that may result. At worst, shortcuts facilitate laziness and open the doors to more…

  • Traction Targets the Business Market

    Following my referer log to McGee’s Musings on klogs, I stumbled across yet another blog tool—Traction—this one specifically aimed at the enterprise market. I haven’t investigated the feature set and pricing yet, and I’m curious about how it might differ from ordinary blog software. I was just talking to a business client today about using…

  • B2E Corporate Blogging

    In a column (Blogs are HUGE) at the Macromedia site, Ed Krimen discussed the way they are using blogs to promote their products: While most of the feedback about the blogs has been positive, there has been some concerned feedback, especially from the blogging community. Companies like Macromedia don’t normally use blogs to communicate with…

  • Corporate Weblog Pros and Cons

    Blunt Force Trauma cites this Seattle Times article on corporate blogging.