Recently I came across an article on CMS Usability by Sydney based CMS guru James Robertson. In his article, “11 usability principles of CMS products” he outlines the key principles a CMS should have to be truly usable. A usable CMS will: minimise the number of options be robust and error-proof provide task-based interfaces hide [...]
Archive for the 'Web Standards' Category
With Google’s recent statement they were going to give increased importance to the loading times of a website’s home page (and penalise accordingly slow loading sites), could we be seeing the return of the Splash Page? Here’s a favourite Splash Page of mine - Ginko Gardens Splash Pages – Counter to ‘Usability’ and [...]
A client recently approached us with the plan to render most of their website in AJAX (otherwise known as Asynchronous JavaScript and XML), a web development technique used in online forms and other interactive web apps. For Responsive Webpages and Forms AJAX is designed to make web pages more responsive – it allows for a [...]
A very interesting article from Milissa Tarquini of AOL on how the long held rule of the “fold” is being de-bunked by web analytics and user testing, as well as how this will impact design and development processes based on screen resolution and browser compatibility.