Here is an easy one. Everyone loves lists right? Well, where I work numbered lists are a daily occurrence, and those lists are often more than 10 items long. What makes them even crazier, being one that prefers notepad to make edits, is when a client asks me to update “number 8″ with new content. Trying to figure out which one is which, referencing only <li> can be a pain. Continue reading »
Robert Campbell
Content is crap, and bells and whistles are everything.
Thinking more and more about how people use the web, and how reading (more than a couple of sentences) has simply become a thing of the past. I wonder how valuable content really is unless it’s simply screaming look at me!
Take this half a million dollar hunk of clay for example. It’s a monument at the Cesar Chavez Park in the city of San Jose, CA. Continue reading »
Apr 202010
Those of you that use Google Webmaster Tools, good news! They are now graphing top search queries, revealing clickthrough ratios.
Looking at my old road rage site, MonkeyMeter.com, I found my best keyword was really “road terms”, and not road rage, though I get more hits for road rage type searches. When Google users search road terms, 7 out of 10 of them will visit my site. That’s a number I like to see. Continue reading »
Doing some testing on a news feed that automatically scrolls, results point to…let it scroll. A large client of mine has a scrolling news feed on their portal, and there were a few that thought the scrolling should just go. Here is what I found.
Watching Users
Watching users use it, there appeared to be no problems at all, as long as the had the option to control the scroll. A looping feed with no control resulted in frustration for the user, and actually, frustration for the guy watching them, me. Without the control the feed took nearly a minute to reload. Continue reading »
Apr 162010
So who is up for helping me run a contest? Who would like to be in a website building race? Racing to make my deadline yesterday, got me wondering how fast some of you are at coding. I would love to know how fast a page could be developed based on a Word Doc, something I was doing at the time I thought of the idea.
We could make certain rules, like no tables for layout, formatting must be done with a CSS file, and the code must pass W3C validation. You could use any software or service offered online to help you build the page, we just want to see results, and we want the fast. Continue reading »
Apr 062010
Jakob Nielsen released a new report to day: Horizontal Attention Leans Left. His findings indicate that web users spend 69% of their time on the left hand side of the page.
Here are the top posts and pages viewed on Best Web Image for the month of March, 2010.
Something that I had been dealing with a lot lately is main content width, and reading content getting pushed off to the right which imposes horizontal scrolling on the reader. Here is a recent post I wrote about it: Watch that Image Size. Another item I was hoping to get some comments on was my post Your Intranet Guideline. Continue reading »
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