Archive for November, 2001

Usability guru shoot-out 5 (ok,

Thursday, November 29th, 2001

Usability guru shoot-out
5 (ok, 6) usability evangelists drive their ponies to the OK corral and basically agree that pages should load fast.
Really not a bad read to summarize the tenants of Andrew Chak, Alan Cooper, Robert Davis and Paul Laroche, Jakob Nielsen & Jared Spool
ZDNet: d e v e l o p e r: Church of Usability

Uncle Sam and usability Your

Thursday, November 29th, 2001

Uncle Sam and usability
Your tax dollars at work! The U.S. Gov has a team of researchers working on projects you can download and use to determine and map various metrix of a new or existing site.
NIST Web Metrics Home Page

Avatarnets moving along… Peter Small

Tuesday, November 27th, 2001

Avatarnets moving along…
Peter Small has come a long way with his avaters as a group resource/info sharing medium. His concept of a “virtual cafe” is being used to some extent at:
Agent control panel
His main site give all the background data at:
http://www.avatarnets.com

Please sign your emails You

Wednesday, November 21st, 2001

Please sign your emails
You know what annoys me. People who put include really handy signatures in their e-mail, but only now and then, so when you try to find their number by looking at the bottom of the last mail they sent you you have to sort through 6 months of posts.
No biggy, just a peeve.

WebTANGO:Automating Web Site Usability Evaluation

Wednesday, November 21st, 2001

WebTANGO:Automating Web Site Usability Evaluation
The Group for Interface Research at UC Berkeley are working on a tool to automate the assessment of a web sites usability. Like an automated Jakob Nielsen!
BAILANDO Project: WebTango

progress on my Wiki Yesterday

Monday, November 19th, 2001

progress on my Wiki
Yesterday I finally got my Wiki styled over to the look of my main site and am using it to handle the existing content and future growth (at least for now!) of my book reviews, external links and deisscussion pages.

All that’s left is to migrate about a digital ton of static pages over to the Wiki… then decide where to go with it.

More to follow.
Much more!

Happy Birthday Steve!!Tomorrow is my

Tuesday, November 13th, 2001

Happy Birthday Steve!!
Tomorrow is my brothers birthday. His site which is dedicated to “Entertainment and Education” is located here:
smt homepage