Once upon a time, I was worked with a company that hired 37signals to do web usability and design work. It really wasn’t that long ago that they only did consulting.
The ship has changed course. They are now a software company: “Simple softare to help you get organized.” Indeed, it takes effort to find their consulting page, which is really just their old home page.
Personally I think this move by 37signals is smart. They have talented developers and designers, but they have less skill with hard core usability. Don’t get me wrong, they are good but they never really did focus on “usability” as most people think about it: research and testing. Although they don’t do usability deeply, they most definitely understand usability. Their work is excellent.
“After producing a list of the top 100 folder names subscribed to on bloglines I found the usual suspects at the top “Blogs, news, tech, people, politics” etc. etc. But then at number 37, I found a folder called “Knitting” that had been used for 2,085 feeds.”
Read the article…
Can wiki pages be locked when being edited by others? Is there any check in, check out capability? I can’t find any solid answers.
Speaking of wikis, do you have any favorite web-based, collaborative, document management tools? How do you share a document, or series of documents, with others, while providing them with editing and revision access?
A Computerworld article tells about a recent study in which some repeating patterns in both user motivations and questions have been found. “When we saw the patterns of users’ questions unfold, we realized that many of today’s sites are only dealing with a small portion of what users need. This research gives us new insights on ways to meet and exceed the expectations of every visitor to our site.”
Read the article…
My Yahoo! now allows users to read RSS feeds. I learned about this a few days ago but didn’t think much of it. As it turns out, I’m getting a small bit of traffic from My Yahoo now. It’ll be interesting to see if traffic picks up even more.
“Can you take a simple list and use different Cascading Style Sheets to create radically different list options? The Listamatic shows the power of CSS when applied to one simple list using samples from Eric Meyer, ProjectSeven, SimpleBits, Jeffrey Zeldman and others.”
Listamatic is a very useful resource. Highly recommended if you need help with creating or understanding lists.
Visit Listamatic today…
Don’t miss:
Listamatic2
Listutorial
Floatutorial
Selectutorial
And while we’re talking about lists, check these out too:
CSS List Properties
CSS Design: Taming Lists
Do you like ReadPrint better than Project Gutenberg?
“The IA Library is a selection of resources related to the field of information architecture. The collection includes articles, books, blogs, and more.”
WebWord isn’t included. Should it be?
Visit the library…
After months of hard work and planning, Mobile Gadget News and WebWord announce Zip-LinQ.net!
(Am I happy to announce this? You bet!)
What is Zip-LinQ.net? Simply put, it is a site dedicated to selling Zip-LinQ products at very low prices.
Zip-LinQ products are primarily for mobile users. Zip-LinQ products are easy to use, compact, and light. Zip-LinQ retractable cables are fantastic. They are great. Really. Once you’ve used Zip-LinQ cables, you won’t go back to bulky, tangled wires and cords again. Road warriors and laptop users, rejoice!
We have a great relationship with the supplier, and we pass the savings along to you. Shipping is extremely fast, and fairly priced.
Right now we have five items in stock:
Even if you are not interested in Zip-LinQ products, please do me a small favor and visit Zip-LinQ.net. Please post any feedback here, or if you want, send a note to me privately: john(at)zip-linq.net
Thank you for reading this posting!
(Remember, when you buy Zip-LinQ products from Zip-LinQ.net you are supporting WebWord. Wink, wink.)
trueFresco.org — “To list referrers to your site all you need to do is to copy/paste a single line of JavaScript code (below) within the page you want to track. You can place this code on as many pages as you wish – it will produce custom referrers list specific to that page – referrers will inherit colors and font type from the defaults of your page!”
I’ve seen it work and it seems very clean. Take a look!
UPDATE: There’s been a lot of traffic to this blog posting. If you have a second, would you please post a comment below telling me why you are here and what you are looking for? I’m very interested. Thanks!
Check out Languagehat if you care about language. Interesting postings with great links.
“A9.com, Inc. researches and builds innovative technologies to improve search experience for e-commerce applications. A separately branded and operated subsidiary of Amazon.com, Inc., A9.com opened its Palo Alto, California, doors in October 2003. A9.com’s technology will power search on Amazon.com and other web sites.”
Visit A9.com
(They are hiring too.)
