Here’s a little pattern I made for«homework» about the integration of usability in a website. Now that I’m nearly on holiday I found the time to transform it for Flash only. This pattern is more developer oriented (but can overlap the designer work). Also these are the kind of thing « a bit boring »… Read More »
Interesting webcast from bitpipe. Half of presentation is more publicity than something else but there still are some nice things to learn from this. 0 Kudos Don'tmove!
Nearly two month ago I published my Flash Stats Engine, now here are the result I get from it and the use of other stats engine. Data was gathered from more than 6000 different IP. On system that did already have Flash Player 7 installed and javascript enabled, this is the first bias. The second… Read More »
After months of patient waiting I finally received an invitation code for Google Analytics. It gives a lot of useful statistics about different views from Marketing Optimization and Content Optimization. I warmly suggest it if you aren’t happy with your statistics tools. There even is a stats about Flash version. Google Analytics tells you everything… Read More »
Interesting article about designing pages for Google found on informit.com by J. Gonzalez. It explain how to use the Flash Search Engine SDK (win/lnx only). Flash Search Engine SDK emulate how would Google analyze your swf. 0 Kudos Don'tmove!
It’s not often that I speak happily from Internet Explorer (IE) because of all the time they make me loose … But this time they have made a nice update to IE (only for Internet Explorer 7), the QuickTabs (Ctrl + Q) button will, once clicked, show you all the tabs you have opened in… Read More »
In no particular order here are some link to usability resources, don’t hesitate to complete it 😉 Flash Usability Alertbox: Jakob Nielsen’s Newsletter Heuristic Evaluation Usability News Usability News 2/ Usability News 3/ Adaptive path » user experience publications Web Pages That Suck Web Design from Scratch InfoDesign Guidelines for Accessible and Usable Web Sites… Read More »
Finally I managed to finish (or something that look like finish) the new version of my website. My old one was really a mess ! I hope this version is clearer than the old one. I hesitated a lot before publishing it, as always doing new project gives me new perspectives to webdesign, and the… Read More »
Nice method to build dynamic width pages for widescreen webuser. See the tutorial. 0 Kudos Don'tmove!
I have just reinstall Opera since it is free and I want my website to be cross platform. I used it a bit, and went to labs.macromedia.com and I noticed that even them had trouble with Opera. Normally we shall see this: With Opera (8.5 on mac and pc) we see this: When will we… Read More »
According to Trenton Moss of Webcredible (http://www.webcredible.co.uk), there are seven reasons to make your website accessible : Your website will be easier to update Your website will be compatible with new browsing technologies Your website will appear higher in the search engines You will not have to incur legal fees The download time of your… Read More »
Just a few words about a website I dicover yesterday. It’s all about web statistic, I often ask myself about the people (you) who use my website, what is their average resolution, what is their favorites browser, where they come from, how long do they stay on the site? Recently I get tired with my… Read More »
I’ve just read this little essay about the immaturity of homepage and I must say that I agree with the content, I guess you may find it interesting too. You’ll found six steps to help your homepage grow up Meet monthly with team responsible for messaging Think every pixel as dynamic content Divide the homepage… Read More »
I’ve found a nice article about the eye attention on a webpage. It talk about: The hompe page layout Want people to read, not scan ? Partial viewing of headlines What creates “hot spots” Where’s your navigation? What about article layout Advertising Text for facts, multimedia grpahics for unfamiliar concpets Read this article 0… Read More »
Website redesign, 10 golden rules According to Kelly Goto & Emily Cotler in their book Design web 2.0 , the 10 golden rules to redesign a website are :