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Steve Krug IF YOU HAVE TO GET ONE WEB DESIGN BOOK, MAKE IT THIS ONE. An amazing look at Web usability and user-centered design. I call it “the Bible”. (note, this is the second edition, which is not out yet. I have read the first edition, and I’m sure this second one is only going […]
37 Signals A must read for Web application developers. “How to improve error messages, help, forms, and other crisis points”.
Jefferey Zeldman This is the starting point. If you are looking to learn about Web development, start here.
Andy Budd wrote up a handy little guide to installing PHP5 and MySQL on a Mac for a nice testing environment. Thanks Andy.
It was only a matter of time. Spyware takes aim at Mozilla It’ll be interesting to see what comes out eventually. Note that this does not currently affect Firefox. Sjouwerman said that “stealth spyware” targeted at Firefox is “bound to happen” as hackers are currently working hard trying to find security holes in the open-source […]
This isn’t exactly news but I thought I’d link this here for your benefit. How to activate cleartype on Windows XP It will make everything look prettier. I don’t know why default isn’t “on”. If you haven’t done this, do it now.
Sound advice So you want to be a consultant Or: Why work 8 hours a day for someone else, when you can work 16 hours a day for yourself?
This is a helpful starting point for developing for Web accessibility. Accessibility from the Ground Up. Yes, Web accessibility is growing up. Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 was released over five years ago, in May 1999. This year, the W3C Web Accessibility Initiative will release Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0. WCAG is the international standard […]
Free PHP RSS Agregation Script from FeedForAll. A nice little gadget that will come in handy at some point.
Jared Spool of User Interface Engineering has some interesting commentary on What makes a design seem intuitive. The distance between current knowledge and target knowledge has a technical name: “The Gap”. (Subsequently, an entire chain of clothing stores was named after it!) The Knowledge Gap is where design happens. We don’t need to design to […]
Scobel has compiled a nice list of arguments about RSS copyright issues.
The U.S. National Cancer Institute recently did a user study of screen reader users. The Communication Technologies Branch of the United States National Cancer Institute (part of National Institutes of Health and Department of Health and Human Services) has been conducting usability testing with people with disabilities, specifically blind and lowvision users, to * understand […]