Articles in the Usability Category
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Damn it, I can be so clueless sometimes! I annoy myself that I didnt know about this sooner. Where have I been?! Well, somewhere where you dont hear of big news like this.
I made the switchover to Firefox last summer, I only use Explorer to test my sites, make sure they are working and look right cross browser. So thats why I didnt really stumble upon it myself first hand. That and I havnt really been using flash much in the past couple …
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All right, all of my procrastinating and protesting has finally come to an end, and I am now going to be validating the HTML of my sites from this point forward.
Strange how before, not having my sites validate only bothered me and convinced me that validation was pointless and nothing for me to strive towards. But yesterday I bit the bullet and set out to make sure that all of my new sites validate. It took a bit of a while to get the hang …
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http://www.useit.com/alertbox/reading_pattern.html
Here is a good article about the patterns our eyes make when web site users scan through text in websites. I like reading about this. I wish that most clients who type up content were aware of this. They seem to think that absolutely everyone is going to pour themselves over every single word on their site. And most people aren’t. Though there will be those few whom will, but the majority of users scan text. I actually didn’t realize I scan this …
