Red Herring Chief Back in Action

After Red Herring sank into the dot-com morass last year, Tony Perkins considered resurrecting the magazine that helped establish him as a Silicon Valley sage.The new venture, AlwaysOn.

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Making Your Content Management System Work for You: An Interview with Jeffrey Veen

"I find that businesses don't treat their web site as a publication, especially those organizations developing standard content, such as product and service descriptions. Instead, they view their site as a software project -- a product that undergoes a development process and needs to be 'released'." (Christine Perfetti - User Interface 9 Conference)

Personas: Practice and Theory

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"Personas is an interaction design technique with considerable potential for software product development. Personas are more engaging than design based primarily on scenarios." Read this artice by John Pruitt and Jonathan Grudin - Microsoft Research.

A decade of good website design

The web looks very different today than it did 10 years ago.

Back in 1994, Yahoo had only just launched, most websites were text-based and Amazon, Google and eBay had yet to appear. Read Mark Ward's article of the BBC.

The Most Hated Advertising Techniques

Studies of how people react to online advertisements have identified several design techniques that impact the user experience very negatively.

Bridging the Gap Between User and Business Goals

The Web is slowly but surely growing up. For Web professionals it’s becoming more and more important to understand not only how various disciplines interact with and affect each other, but also the impact of business objectives on Web projects. D. Keith Robinson's article covers how to best deal with clients and stakeholders on getting a better handle on business objectives and how to meet goals.

Looking for a Xmas gift for that novice web designer?

I'm always interested in looking for books that offer help in web design. With Creating a Web Page with HTML, Elizabeth Castro puts together a simple guide to getting started with a web site. Look here.

Web Design Training and Certification

Are you wanting to get certified in the field of web design, Flash, or Web Project Management? Check out the HTML Writers Guide web site for various programs, classes/times.

Microsoft jumps onto the Blogging wagon

Microsoft now had jumped into the the world of Weblogs, with a new free service called Spaces. It requires users to create a Microsoft Password account.