Monday, December 14, 2009

Jakob Nielsen

According to usability expert Jakob Nielsen, people rarely read web pages word by word; instead, they scan the page, picking out individual words and sentences. Nielsen suggests using scanable text on web pages: highlighted keywords; meaningful sub-headings; bulleted lists; one idea per paragraph; and half the word count of conventional writing.
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Sunday, December 13, 2009

HotScripts.com

HotScripts.com is geared toward webmasters and programmers who are looking to enhance their Web sites and intranets with dynamic development tools, scripts, books, and other resources. HotScripts provides web developers a centralized, convenient collection of quality programming information and resources. Over 35,000 resources in over 1,000 categories.
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Saturday, December 12, 2009

Webmaster

The official Geek.com definition of webmaster is "a blanket term that refers to the person responsible for running a website. It is associated more with server administration and HTML coding than other Web development, such as CGI scripting."
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Friday, December 11, 2009

Search within a site

Use Google's "search within a site" syntax to search within a specified website. Use the following syntax at the Google Search text box: site: siteyoursearching.com search text. For example site:cnn.com Florida elections will search the CNN website for the text "Florida elections". See google.com/advanced_search for more Google advanced search methods.
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Thursday, December 10, 2009

Wiki

A "Wiki" is software that allows users to freely create and edit web page content using any web browser. Wiki supports hyperlinks and has a simple text syntax for creating new pages and cross links between internal pages on the fly. The result is a large collaboratively edited domain of reference web pages. The best-known wiki on the web is Wikepedia at wikipedia.org.
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Wednesday, December 9, 2009

America Online

Steve Case started America Online (AOL) on May 24, 1985. AOL began as Quantum Computer Services, offering an online connection from Commodore 64 microcomputers to the Internet under the service name Q-Link. AOL went public in March 1992 and later was part of an infamous merger with Time Warner in 2000, which created the world's largest media company.
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Tuesday, December 8, 2009

Usability testing

Usability testing is done to measure how well people can use a web site for its intended purpose. It measures how well web users respond in four areas: time, accuracy, recall, and emotional response. Web developers can improve and retest cases where people have had difficulty understanding instructions, manipulating parts, or interpreting feedback.
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