Category: Usability

March 21, 2009

Styling visited links in web sites

Filed under: Usability,Web development - 21 Mar 2009

I don’t have a consistent approach to this yet… I’ve been hunting around today reading articles on different techniques for styling visited links on a web page.

I agree with this comment on usability advantages of styling visited links differently from …

February 26, 2009

iStockPhoto now has royalty-free Audio

Filed under: Resources,Usability - 26 Feb 2009

A great resource if you are looking for audio for web site projects.

At CodeGeek.net, we’ve used iStockPhoto for several years now for low-cost, high-quality stock photos for many of our web site developement projects. We were excited to learn …

June 9, 2008

Improving Website Navigation

Filed under: Articles,Usability - 09 Jun 2008

Better navigation for your site

Is your web site easy to navigate? Would you like to make it even easier for your web site visitors to find their way around? Here are a number of ideas to make your …

Attracting Clients is not Rocket Science

Filed under: Creating Content,SEO,Usability - 09 Jun 2008

Attracting visitors, i.e. potential clients, to your website is easier than you may think. Here are a few points to keep in mind when developing your website:

It is imperative think in terms of your client. This has been …

March 1, 2008

A giant leap forward for web accessibility

Filed under: Accessibility,Resources,Usability,Web standards - 01 Mar 2008

As of 26 February 2008, the WCAG Samurai errata for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 are available. The WCAG Samurai was a group of developers, led by Joe Clark, that publishes corrections for, and extensions to, the Web …

December 9, 2007

Microsoft to rollback “Click to activate this control” for embedded content in April 2008

Filed under: Flash,Usability - 09 Dec 2007

Flash developers take note. The incredibly annoying “Click to activate this control” problem in Internet Explorer is going away soon.

“Microsoft has now licensed the technologies from Eolas, removing  the ‘click to activate’ requirement in Internet Explorer.” This will improve the …