Articles tagged with ‘usability’

July 2010

Mon 5th

The arrogant curveball

In which two popular browsers confound all expectations.

November 2009

Fri 27th

More about link ‘footprints’

A bit about link ‘footprints’, ‘block-level’ links, and HTML 5.

May 2009

Fri 22nd

Fixing boagworld’s wobbly menu

Presenting a greasemonkey script to fix the sidebar menu on boagworld.com.

April 2009

Thu 2nd

“Don’t duplicate link text in the title attribute”

A brief response to a 456 Berea Street post.

March 2009

Mon 30th

The fallacy of ‘the fold’: part two

Even if we had a universal, predictable fold on the web, it might not even be of that much use anyway.

Thu 26th

The fallacy of ‘the fold’: part one

The ‘fold’ is a far less important concept on the web than it is in print. This article describes the first set of reasons why.

Mon 23rd

The ‘expanding columns’ problem

Microsoft Windows still leads the way in flouting principles of usability.

Fri 20th

A flexible homepage

Recent changes to the fma homepage have, hopefully, created a ‘best of all worlds’ layout.

September 2008

Wed 24th

Content, identify yourself

Another simple method to encourage in-bound linking.