Thinking about going to Web Design World? #highered discount available!
Web Design World is coming soon (very soon) – October 18-20 in Las Vegas – and if you’ve never been before (or even if you have and want to attend this year), they have a great deal to pass along to you! I know it’s late in the game for #highered but I thought I [...]
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Mobile users are either repetitive, bored, or urgent
In a recent article Google Lays Out Its Mobile User Experience Strategy. In it they bring attention to something we don’t often think about. Mobile users are either repetitive, bored, or urgent. Repetitive Someone checking for the same piece of information over and over again, like checking the same stock quotes or weather. Google uses [...]
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Avoid frustrating users with tabindex
Even if you can use a mouse most of the time its easier to use a keyboard to fill out web forms. HTML has a nifty attribute called “tabindex” which allows the site creator to dictate how the user will navigate through the forms or links on the page. The default tab order is usually [...]
In: accessibility, thoughts · Tagged with: form, tabindex, usability, web
Live review of higher education web sites #2
Working through technical issues, I changed my screen resolution to better match the HD requirements of some sites and I tried to buy a new mic at Target (We had gift certificates) but it totally sucked and didn’t work with my computer. Anyways next episode and three new sites reviewed. Check them out and let [...]
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Live review of higher education web sites
In the last few posts I talked about my passion to critique higher education web sites via EduStyle.net. I decided to take it one step further and actually show you what I look for when reviewing these sites. Again this is the first time I am doing this whole video thing, you actually get to [...]
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