Luke Wroblewski’s new book Web Form Design: Filling In the Blanks comes with illustrations that are freely available on Flickr. More over here.
Or learning what not to do…
I went to a Drupal trainingsession yesterday at the University of Antwerp. I was familiar with the concept but I hadn’t seen it in action yet. (Drupal is a free software package that allows an individual or a community of users to easily publish, manage and organize a wide variety of content on a website. “http://drupal.org/about“)
UK-based web design company Message carries out an online survey which aims to answer some fundamental questions about usability on the web. The company found that ideas about what constitutes ‘readable’ text are based on tried-and-tested rules from the world of print. The survey is aimed at building a statistical picture on the subject.
The second post on the brand new GWO blog announces that in the future Google Website Optimizer will also be available outside of AdWords. The standalone version will have a slightly different interface, but the functionality will be very similar to the integrated version.
Great news, because you now can use Website Optimizer to A/B test both your AdWords landing pages and landing pages from other channels such as Yahoo! and email marketing campaigns.
These past two years we’ve seen the emergence of Web 2.0 and all it’s associated dangers. It’s easy to fall for what’s cool instead of focusing on what’s good. Fortunately, these 5 sites know how to use CSS and JavaScript to improve the user experience instead of relying on them to provide that experience.
