3 Posts found for Source: A List Apart

Over at A List Apart, Robert Hoekman Jr. has written an article, “The Myth of Usability Testing,” which argues that usability evaluations are good for many things, but determining a team’s priorities is not one of them. The Molich experiment proves a single usability team can’t discover all or even most major problems on a site. But usability testing does have value as … [ Read more ]

Author: Robert Hoekman Jr. | Source: A List Apart | Subject: Site Design (Architecture, Coding, UI, etc.)

There are two popular approaches to positioning with CSS: float and absolute positioning. Both approaches have their pros and cons. Eric Sol offers an article on A List Apart, “Faux Absolute Positioning,” which describes a new positioning approach that gives us the best of both worlds.

Author: Eric Sol | Source: A List Apart | Subjects: CSS, Site Design (Architecture, Coding, UI, etc.)

Dean Frickey has written an interesting article titled “A More Useful 404.” In it he describes how he uses a perl script to provide relevant information to the user while also providing immediate feedback to the developer so that, when possible, the problem can be fixed. I have done something similar on my sites for quite a while, but I use PHP instead of Perl.

One … [ Read more ]

Author: Dean Frickey | Source: A List Apart | Subject: Site Design (Architecture, Coding, UI, etc.)