A fantastic book to learn Flash from. Flash 8, The Missing ManualBy E.A. Vander VeerPogue Press, O’Reilly, 2006ISBN: 0 596 10137 6 The Missing Manual books are, from my observations, universally the best books I have seen on a given topic, when you are looking for a real understanding of how to use a piece …
Newsletter usability has increased since our last study, but the competition for users’ attention has also grown with the ever-increasing glut of information. In his latest report, Jakob Nielsen takes an indepth look at email newsletters and how readers use them. The short version can be read here.
In his report he identifies that many B2B web sites are not as user friendly as consumer oriented web sites and that this is impacting on the success of the web sites. Do we take as much care in keeping B2B web sites as user friendly and up to date from a user interface perspective …
Latest Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox draws your attention to eye flow patterns. In the latest Jakob Nielson Alertbox newsletter he discusses the results of tests done on tracking eye movement over typical web pages. It is quite interesting and potentially very useful information for web site designers. The report can be seen at this link.
In this tutorial we examine how to create a web page by using the slice tools in Photoshop and ImageReady. In this tutorial we are going to use Photoshop and ImageReady to create a web page using rollover buttons and the slice tool. Note that this is only one way of many that can achieve …
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Neat game, worth a look to see just what can be done. GAME http://www.samsung.com/au/theinsidejob/
WatchMouse research shows that 71% of IBEX websites availability is below industry standards Press Release Of the top 35 funds listed on the Bolsa de Madrid (IBEX), 25 havewebsites with poor to dramatically poor availability. Many of the sitesare badly accessible or unavailable for more than an hour per month. The worst site, that of …
Airservices Australia and Tequila lead Australian success at the 2005 MAX Awards Press Release Macromedia today announced the winners of the 2005 MAX Awards, whichrecognise the top digital experiences built with Macromediatechnology. The judges at MAX 2005 selected Airservices Australia as the winner inthe ‘government experience’ category for its ‘Flying Around’project. Created by Airservices …
Jakob Nielsen has new advice for web site developers Jacob Nielsen’s excellent useit.com web site has an new alert on how todisplay non-web documents, like PDFs, on your web sites. He advisesthat non-web documents should not display in a web browser, but ratherin another application to make it clear to users about what they arelooking …
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Jacob Nielson’s site offers some good advice Jakob Nielson’s web useability site has a new alert article on thedesign of web sites to suit an international audience. Definitely someuseful points in here. http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20050808.html useit.com isdedicated to providing useful information of web useability andeffective web site design principles. There is a free newsletter alertof when new …
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