The Return on Usability Testing

Subha Subramania offers insights to the benefits of usability testing.

Registration is now open for Web Essentials ‘05, to be held in Sydney, Australia, September 29-30, 2005. WE04 delivered 14 sessions - this year’s edition expands to 22 sessions with 7 International speakers, and 10 Australian speakers.

Everything I’ve heard about WE04 is that it was, quite simply, an oustanding conference.

Ajax: A New Approach to Web Applications

Jesse James Garrett discusses the technology of Google's Ajax. It’s really several technologies, each flourishing in its own right, coming together in powerful new ways.

Tableless CSS driven template

Bluewater Island website was developed for a resort in Vanuatu. This is a database driven site, featuring a sophisticated yet easy to use custom built CMS.

Through the use of tableless CSS driven template, it was possible to significantly cut down the size of XHTML files and increase amount & size of images, subsequently making the site so much more attractive.

The site has been developed with the latest standards in mind allowing for maximum accessibility. Written in XHTML this website can even be accessed from most browser capable mobiles.

Completely Rethinking the Web

Dirk Knemeyer, Innovating the Web Experience Columnist at Digital Web, stretches our imagination with his insight on why the Web is broken. Read

Good book on web usability

Read this Book: Site-Seeing: a Visual Approach to Web Usability by Luke Wroblewski

Google's Web Accelerator hits the brakes

Google says it has reached the maximum number of users for beta software, which has come under criticism by privacy advocates and technology researcher Gartner.

Flash Tips

Actionscript: Mouse Movements In this month's ActionScript walkthrough, Tom Knowles demonstrates how to use the Flash Player to record and play back a visitor's mouse movements

W3C launches mobile push

The Web's leading standards body has launched a ground campaign to promote its mobile Web protocols in the real world.

Webby Awards nominees announced

The Webby Awards--known to its publicist as the International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences--announced nominees in more than 60 categories for its June 6 Web site awards ceremony.

Nominees include Boing Boing and Yahoo's Flickr site in the Blog category, Skype in Telecommunications, 43 Things in Social Networking, Burger King’s Subservient Chicken in Humor and Weird, Alexander McQueen in Fashion, the New York Times on the Web in Newspaper, and Rtm86.com in Personal Site. Google, Yahoo, AOL, News.com publisher CNET, PBS, the BBC, Pfizer, SK Telecom, Turner Movie Classics and others got nominations in multiple categories.

Through April 29, the awards show is soliciting votes in its People's Voice Awards.

The Webby Awards unveiled a new designation, "Webby Worthy," which the awards group said applied to less than 20 percent of more than 4,000 entries received this year.

Creating a Site Design Plan

If you’re a small (or one-person) shop, the many approaches to planning a Web site can be dizzying. Wouldn’t it be nice to have some guidelines to make design decisions easier? Karen Morrill-McClure guides you through creating a site design plan by outlining business and user needs and defining goals.

Web Style Sheets

Style sheets describe how documents are presented on screens, in print, or perhaps how they are pronounced. W3C has actively promoted the use of style sheets on the Web since the Consortium was founded in 1994.

Other style sheet information: Effective Use of Style Sheets, by Jakob Nielsen