Usability: Designing and Sorting Information

November 12, 2006

Usability has become quite the hot topic. Seems it's on everyone's lips of late. If it interests you, I'd like to bring a couple things to your attention. First, Tuesday, November 14th is Worldwide Usability Day. There are 206 events in 39 countries this year. That's pretty impressive. Find a usability event near you. One [...]

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In the Aftermath of Adobe MAX

November 8, 2006

It's been a full week since returning from Adobe's MAX conference and I think I've finally recovered. Adobe did a nice job taking it over and things were pretty similar to previous years. The venue was beautiful and the evening events were well done. I got to see lots of old friends and made a [...]

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It's He-ere – Internet Explorer 7 – Final Release Version

October 18, 2006

I will reserve final judgement until I can properly view all my sites (I'm on a Mac and BrowserCam does not yet have the final version available), but for those waiting in anticipation, Internet Explorer 7 has arrived. An 8 pound-10 ounce bouncing bundle of joy — or so we hope. Call me naive, but [...]

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Safari Bug – Red Links Galore!

September 20, 2006

In light of sharing this information quickly, I'm going to tell you the story of a little bug without a demo. (The site I'm working on is still NDA, so I can't illustrate it with that either.) I'll try to get one up soon. The Backstory This site is using the new version of Nifty [...]

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Zabasearch – Great new tool or invasion of privacy?

September 5, 2006

I usually keep the personal stuff out of here. But since this rant relates to Zabasearch, a web site, I'm going to spout off for a minute. Please bear with me. Zabasearch is touted as "The #1 Free People Search and Public Information Search Engine." And whether it's number one or not, I can't say, [...]

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Paid Advertising in the Yahoo! Search Returns?

July 10, 2006

I have a problem with Yahoo!. Had I not been verbally attacked by a man in a neighboring city, I wouldn't even realize this interesting issue existed. And though it benefits my clients, it really bugs me personally. The back story in a nutshell is — I have a client in the moving industry. A [...]

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Annoying Flash Banner Ads

June 27, 2006

Good grief. I really don't have a problem with Flash banner ads at all. In fact, many times they're the best way to showcase a product. What I am greatly annoyed by though, and they're starting to pop up everywhere, are the ones that move down over the active part of the page. Sure, they're [...]

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Update – MAX

June 9, 2006

Announced just yesterday! MAX details: When: October 23 – 26, 2006 Where: Venetian Resort Hotel, Las Vegas, NV Adobe will have over 90 different hands-on and workshop sessions presented by Adobe experts and other industry leaders on best practices and coming technologies. Currently, there are six tracks: LiveCycle and Acrobat Web Development Rich Internet Applications [...]

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sIFR 3.0 Alpha Released

May 23, 2006

For those of you that have been following the development of, or even using sIFR, this post is for you. Mark Wubben has announced the release of the alpha of the next version of sIFR. I just got back from TODCon, so I haven't had time to play with it yet, but the feature list [...]

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Dealing With The Looming Internet Explorer 7 Release

April 25, 2006

Dave Shea makes some good points in his post at Vitamin about the upcoming IE7 release and browser hacks. I started to weigh in amongst his comments, but I got a little long-winded so I figured it was better written on my own blog instead of using Dave's bandwidth. A question was raised in his [...]

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