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Related Links: Slate goes widescreen 10th anniversary redesign. Jake says: For one thing, we're no longer owned by Microsoft, which for some reason seems to make it easier for us to build a site that works as well in Firefox and Safari as it does in Internet Explorer. And now that larger computer screens and broadband have become commonplace, we felt Slate could do more to take advantage of both. The new home page, for example, is wider than the old one and has graphics so numerous that a dial-up modem would have choked on them. We've used the additional real estate to give permanent homes to Explainer, the Has-Been, Doonesbury, Today's Pictures, and our editorial cartoons[~]regular features that have sometimes been hard to find.I love that remark that suddenly Slate can work in non-MS browsers now. [Paul Boutin] read more: Soup to Nuts Learn how to build a CSS-based layout from start to finish. From design in-flight, which used to be a pay-for PDF magazine only. Nice to finally add some of Nathan's work to this portfolio. He (et al.) does some outstanding work over at web-graphics.com. read more: Usability Five new links: "Graphics on Link-Rich Home Pages", "Label Placement in Forms", "SAP Design Guild Articles", "Simplicity Demands Difficult Choices", and "Personable 'About Us' Page Lifts Ecommerce Conversions 30 Percent". read more: Interactive and Animated Pictures: Mere Visual Stimulation or Better Clarity? Digitalisation has revolutionised the creation and editing of graphics, and ushered in new forms of technical communication on the visual plane. Ballstaedt, Steffen-Peter read more: Become An Expert Web Designer! Video tutorials and stunning templates show you how to create your own websites and graphics from scratch in the next hour! read more: Fort Lauderdale Graphic Design Firm Gains Event Marketing and Meeting Management Firm as Client S.MARK Graphics Florida Inc. has been awarded the graphic design account of American Meetings, Inc. (AMI) in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The work includes the development of on-going services including logo identities, invitations, signage, web site development and maintenance as well as marketing campaigns and advertising. (PRWEB Jul 5, 2006) Trackback URI: http://www.prweb.com/zingpr.php/SG9yci1Db3VwLUluc2UtUGlnZy1JbnNlLVplcm8= read more: New Titan Poker Gets Rave Review In Categories of Bonus and Graphics The newest online poker room, Titan Poker, is getting good reviews among Titan poker players. Players review the graphics, bonus, and overall quality. [PRWEB Nov 7, 2005] read more: Browser security versus virtual autism I tend to ignore articles on security because I don't have a lot of respect for the security companies. As far as I can tell, most security stories are credulous regurgitations of these companies' misleading press releases. Their vested interest in FUD, their conflict of interests with their own customers, their alarmist and uninformative tendencies: all these things make it hard to take them seriously. Just this last week there was one or other of this motley crew claiming 'Windows more secure than Linux'. The numbers were blatant nonsense, counting any Linux vulnerability once per distribution, for example, and I'm not interested in that non-story. In amongst the usual stream of commercial effluent, I found myself reading a couple of interesting papers on phishing. If you're anything like me (and I hope you're not) you receive several hundred spam messages a day. For my home account, one of the mod3 Solaris zone hosting dudes set up a greylisting system that pretty much squashed the problem. Work uses a commercial filtering system that doesn't work nearly as well, and doesn't even let me say 'drop anything in any non-European language', which would be a very effective work-around for me. I'll admit to having been nervous about the greylisting idea ('but won't it delay genuine mail?'), but I've only been inconvenienced once so far, and that wasn't for long. I waste far much more time wading through the obvious spam at work every day than I did on the one occasion I've had to wait for a web site to retry its confirmation mail. Anyway, given the amount of spam that gets through at work, I see quite a lot of phishing attempts. Some would be worryingly convincing if I had any connection with the alleged institutions, many are fairly obviously bogus if you give them more than a second's glance, and some are laughably bad. That last class has always interested me the most. My assumption was always that such mails wouldn't fool anybody, leaving me wondering why the prospective phisher didn't try a bit harder? Now I'm starting to wonder if the criminals aren't just being clever, expending no more effort than necessary to fool the foolable. Reading Why Phishing Works, I was shocked by the lack of acumen displayed by the experiment's subjects. The sample size was, I felt, small: only 22 people. I'm also not sure how representative of the general public university staff and students are. All the same... Even if you don't care about security, if you're a programmer it's worth reading the paper just to see how far out of touch with technology many users are. In particular, they have no idea what's easy to fake and what's hard to fake. That text and graphics inside the page are more trusted than text and graphics in the browser's own UI shows you just how much the disconnect between the user's model and system's model can cost. It's also interesting to see how much of the browser people just ignore. I was thanked for adding a 'new' feature to Terminator the other week when all I'd done was add a tool tip to draw attention to a feature that had been there much longer. That was understandable because the feature was otherwise invisible and only enjoyed by people who had just assumed it would be there. This paper, though, suggests that browser features that you and I probably consider highly visible just aren't seen. Or they're seen and misunderstood, which is potentially worse when they're security features. Not all of the problems identified in the paper are anything to do with technology, though. Except insofar as they suggest that people are bad at transferring real-world common sense to the 'virtual' world, or bad at realizing that they're the same world. I wonder if the woman who 'will click on any type of link at work where she has virus protection and system administrators to fix the machine, but never at home' would agree to be beaten by said system administrators with baseball bats in the grounds of a local hospital. Presumably that would be fine, because the hospital can fix things up afterwards? So no harm done, right? And there's the woman who types in her username and password to see if a site's genuine. Presumably she'd be happy to give me her life savings to see whether I can be trusted to return them? I do hope those two are now starred out. But I know they aren't, and I know there are millions like them, sharing LANs (or even machines) with us. I showed the paper to my girlfriend. She didn't know about https: versus http:, didn't know there was a padlock icon anywhere (and I'll admit that I had to look for it in Safari; I'll be switching to Firefox completely as soon as it has spelling checking), or what the padlock means, and definitely didn't know anything about certificates. It had never really occurred to me before that there were millions of people out there typing their financial details in to HTML forms without the vaguest idea of which end of the firestick the boom comes out. We've accidentally created a whole race of virtual autists, devoid of their usual ability to infer trustworthiness. If you think that's an over-statement, read the paper and look at the cues the participants were using. In ignorance of the high-tech stuff the browser was offering, they were falling back to tried-and-tested visual cues, despite the fact that it's trivial to copy any image, text, or video on-line. The authors have a suggestion, if you're not too depressed to keep reading. The Battle Against Phishing: Dynamic Security Skins describes a way of improving the browser's security indicators, but I didn't really get how it's supposed to address what seems to be the more fundamental problem: people just don't know what they're looking for. If Firefox's yellow location bar is as invisible as it appears to be, is that battle not already lost? read more: PyMOL PyMOL is a molecular graphics system with an embedded Python interpreter designed for real-time visualization and rapid generation of high-quality molecular graphics images and animations. read more: R System for statistical computation and graphics; an interpreted computer language which allows branching and looping as well as modular programming using functions. read more: Get a free copy of Graphics Server .NET: Widgets Edition You can download a free copy of Graphics Server .NET Widget Edition over on David Johnson's blog until January 16, 2005. The Widget Server edition has a lot of graphical meters & indicators that can be significantly customized for use in monitoring programs. It can be used on both WinForms and WebForms.  read more: Shuttle's future rests on Discovery NASA says another major incident in launching the space shuttle would cast doubts on the program NASA is ready for a second - and likely last - attempt to recover from the 2003 Columbia disaster and resume ...[Via Science / Technology - Topix.net]  read more:Ready to rise again Nearly one year since the last shuttle launch and 3 1/2 years after the Columbia disaster, NASA is primed to return to human space flight Saturday with the liftoff of the Discovery orbiter and its crew of ...[Via Science / Technology - Topix.net]  read more: User Experience Software The list of software tools available for user experience professionals continues to grow. From card-sorting applications for Information Architects to prototyping applications for Interface Designers, here are a few tools I?ve been exposed to recently. Drop me a note if you have any interesting additions. Update: I'm only including software specifically built for a particular user experience methodology like card sorting, user recruiting, requirements gathering, etc. General purpose software like Photoshop, Visio, Flash, and Omnigraffle are therefore omitted from this list. Microsoft Expression Interactive Designer Deliver exciting next generation user experiences that leverage the full capabilities of the Windows platform to provide greater overall performance, improved usability, and increased customer satisfaction. xSort xSort is a card sorting application for Mac OS X developed to streamline the workflow of user experience professionals and social scientists. Axure Axure RP enables application designers to create annotated wireframes, interactive, browser-based prototypes, and professional functional specifications for applications and web sites faster and easier than creating static mockups with their current tools. Intuitect Intuitect creates a single unified structure that holds all the information about your website project. The three Intuitect views are: Navigation (sitemap) View, Wireframe View, and Flowmap View. Aurora An adaptable WinFX-based graphics authoring tool that generates instant XAML documents. It can be used as a development tool to create fresh user interfaces for Windows and Web applications. GenoPal A color picker and color matching software. GenoPal mimics intuitive ways of referring to color: starting with your best guess it presents options and allows you to refine choices. Morae Morae Usability Testing for Software and Web Sites enables product teams to observe actual users, giving these teams a clear picture of where problems exist and stimulating ideas for fixing them. Ethnio Recruit users live from your website. Capture feedback from users as they use your site or application. [thanks Geof] WebSort A web-based software tool that enables researchers to perform remote card sort studies. Create a study, send a link to participants, and analyze the result. [thanks Jed] GUI Design Studio A graphical user interface design tool for Microsoft Windows that you can use to rapidly create demonstration prototypes without any coding or scripting. [thanks John] iRise iRise Studio is used for new custom applications, portals, enhancements to existing systems and Web-based front-ends to packaged software. [thanks Parker] uLog Enables you to log computer events such as mouse clicks, scrolling, and keystrokes, the recording of text strings, the resizing of windows, pop-ups, which windows and applications are active, and more. [thanks Dave] Serena Composer By providing a shared visual taxonomy for defining application requirements and prototypes, Serena Composer helps business and IT work better together. [thanks Dave] GUIguide Contains industry standards for effective GUI and web design and for meeting Rich client and HTML standards compliance. [thanks Dave] stpBA Storyboarding A Microsoft Visio based GUI storyboarding and prototyping tool to visually validate requirements with business users. The tool generates HTML storyboards, screen flow diagrams, reader friendly UI specifications, functional specifications and test scripts. [thanks Sam] MindCanvas Though not a software package you can run yourself, MindCanvas (part of Uzanto?s research service offering) enables researchers to gather insights about customers' thoughts & feelings through Game-like Elicitation Methods (GEMs). Tags: user experience, windows, wireframes, microsoft read more: Start with the assumption that you cannot predict the access needs of your audience. This weeks tip: start with the assumption that you cannot predict the access needs of your audience. For example, a person with Dyslexia may need a particular combination of text and background colours to comfortably read text on a web page. You could contact a person with this particular impairment and ask them about their preferred colours; but do all people with Dyslexia have the same access needs? Unfortunately ? from a web designers point of view ? the answer is no.A better approach is to design pages so that the presentation of content can be changed by the end user; in the case of the above example, ensure that each person can change the colours to suit their own needs (e.g., via browser preferences or a style switcher). This approach can be applied to all presentation aspects, whether it be text size, layout, or the choice to leave graphics on or off. read more: New Address! The web-graphics RSS feed has a new address, please update: http://web-graphics.com/index.xml read more: Jesus wept! Daily Sucker for Monday, July 10, 2006 Submitter's comments: Note the inept use of frames, the clumsy navigation, and especially the conflicting boxes full of text that scrolls in different directions (and takes far too long to load, at least over my cable connection), the lack of proofreading, etc. Vincent's comments: It uses a lot of Java and my browsers just hate Java. It also uses graphics ... read more: StopattheShop.com's Horrible Reliance on Graphics A small chain of audio/video stores burdens its web site with graphics to the point where search engines would have... read more: Graphics & Photo:Home Print & Web Publishing:Video Creation & Editing Search in Graphics & Photo:Home Print & Web Publishing:Video Creation & Editing read more: Computers & Internet:Web Development:HTML, Graphics, & Design:Adobe Photoshop Search in Computers & Internet:Web Development:HTML, Graphics, & Design:Adobe Photoshop read more: Macintosh:Graphics & Photo:Image & Photo Editing Search in Macintosh:Graphics & Photo:Image & Photo Editing read more: Graphics & Photo:Document Capture & Scanning:Document Capture & Conversion Search in Graphics & Photo:Document Capture & Scanning:Document Capture & Conversion read more: Macintosh:Graphics & Photo:Desktop Publishing Search in Macintosh:Graphics & Photo:Desktop Publishing read more: Macintosh:Graphics & Photo:Art & Illustration Search in Macintosh:Graphics & Photo:Art & Illustration read more: Macintosh:Graphics & Photo:Document Capture & Scanning Search in Macintosh:Graphics & Photo:Document Capture & Scanning read more: 256GB Geometrically Encoded Paper Storage Device jrieth50 noted that a method of using geometric shapes combined with color to store up to 256GB of data on a sheet of paper or plastic. The article says "Files such as text, images, sounds and video clips are encoded in "rainbow format" as coloured circles, triangles, squares and so on, and printed as dense graphics on paper at a density of 2.7GB per square inch. The paper can then be read through a specially developed scanner and the contents decoded into their original digital format and viewed or played."[Via Slashdot]  read more: Cascade Precision Daily Sucker for Thursday, December 28, 2006 Submitter's comments: Please, PLEASE review this one. It is really bad. Vincent's comments: For a site that initially looks mediocre, there are a couple of things that are seriously wrong. The home page -- and most, if not all, of the other pages -- consists of images and not text. Never use graphics as a replacement for text. As this search engine s... read more: Website Developer Website Developer. freelance services: website development We are an outsourcing company from situated at the Philippines. We offer services such as website development, graphics and autocad design and 3d. . . read more: Speed Tweak of the Week Learn how to optimize XHTML, CSS, Javascript, graphics and more to increase performance, visitor satisfaction, and retention. The title is a bit of a misnomer, which is a good thing, since all of the techniques are listed by title with descriptions. read more: Your Website Pages Streamline Squeezing the most efficient performance from your web pages is important. The benefits are universal, whether the site is personal or large and professional. Reducing page weight can speed up the browsing experience, especially if your visitors are using dial-up internet access. Though broadband access is the future, the present still contains a great deal of dial-up users. Many sites, ecommerce sites especially, cannot afford to ignore this large section of the market. Sites with a large amount of unique traffic may also save on their total monthly traffic by slimming down their web pages. This article will cover the basics of on-page optimization in both text/code and graphics. read more: Troubleshooting: how search engines can misunderstand your web pages This is a common problem. Your web designer has created a beautiful page with nice graphics, great content and great Flash animations. Unfortunately, it seems that search engines won't list your website no matter what you do. read more: ALA 260: Bolton vs. Boulton In Issue No. 260 of A List Apart, for people who make websites:Writing an Interface Style Guideby JINA BOLTONEver designed or developed a beautiful interface only to find your hard work ruined months later by gaudy graphics or invalid markup? With proper documentation you?ll have a better chance at seeing your interface stay beautiful. Jina [...] read more: A Carved Wine <<<{ BOTTLE ] An Impressive Gift (Salem) $3545 Looking for that unique and special gift, they will admire. I do bottle etching for occasions,events,charities,corporate. The bottles are hand painted, I also etch glass for the home. I have stock graphics and fonts I use for bottles and windows. For your questions call and I will fill in the details. Jack Walsh cell 978-289-0372 http://dancingsand.com read more: Writing an Interface Style Guide Ever designed or developed a beautiful interface only to find your hard work ruined months later by gaudy graphics or invalid markup? With proper documentation you'll have a better chance at seeing your interface stay beautiful. Jina Bolton guides us through the process of developing an interface style guide.
Hide Your Shame: The A List Apart Store and T-Shirt Emporium is back. Hot new designs! Old favorites remixed! S, M, L, XL. Come shop with us! read more: Site Relaunch - Burco Well, this is a first for me—I’m pleased to announce the relaunch of a site that I relaunched in the past - http://www.burcoinc.com. When I first started Boyink Interactive some six years ago now, Burco was one of my first clients. The site was done - by client request - in MS Frontpage. Their hope at the time was that they’d be able to make changes to it internally, but as time went on that never really happened. The intermingling of content and design in the FrontPage interface was both overwhelming to get through and risky - one wrong mouse click and you could delete the entire navigation bar from that page. So I was happy to re-pitch the project and catch them up to current technology when it comes to small business sites, and get them implemented on a database-driven site using ExpressionEngine. The design was provided by Burco’s current graphics designer, and Boyink Interactive did the ExpressionEngine implementation. The site is driven by 8 EE weblogs, and all navigation is created through the use of EE’s relationships. The locations functionality and the online catalog are handled through the use of an iFrame - this approach let us build and host the site externally while leaving some current business applications and work processes in place. Currently in development is a consumer-oriented version of the site, which will use ExpressionEngine’s Multi-Site Manager to allow Burco to manage both sites from one EE install. read more: Solution Standards: Web Design, Web Development, Graphic Desgin Solution Standards: Web Design, Web Development, Graphic Desgin . web content management system: content management system
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