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.

Go to AlwaysOn

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.

So what's a blog?

A blog is a personal diary. A daily pulpit. A collaborative space. A political soapbox. A breaking-news outlet. A collection of links. Your own private thoughts. Memos to the world.

Your blog is whatever you want it to be. They come in all shapes and sizes, and there are no real rules.

In simple terms, a blog is a web site, where you write stuff on an ongoing basis. A blog is a web page that contains brief, discrete bits of information called posts. These posts are arranged in reverse-chronological order (the most recent posts come first), so your visitors can read what's new. Then they comment on it or link to it or email you. Or not.

Some additional information on blogs can be found here.

Want to start your own blog site?

Looking to start your own blog site? Here are some blog sites that offer ways to get you started:







desktop weblogging application for Mac OS X.

Companies that do blogging well

Here's a list of a few companies that do blogging well:

1- Google [of course].
2- Monster
3- Sun Microsystems [Jonathan Schwartz]
4- Java.blogs

EBay bid for blogger hits $1,500

Wright also writes the Ensight.org Weblog, concentrating on business and technology. He founded the blog and says he has sold it to an American company for $15,000! Read more about it here.

Case Study: Re-architecting PeopleSoft.com from the bottom up

Chiara Fox's article covers how in December 2001 PeopleSoft, a large enterprise software company, relaunched its public website, and customer and partner extranets, Customer Connection and Alliance Connection. It took 11 months and more than 60 people to redesign and build the information architecture and graphic identity, build the technical infrastructure, migrate and rewrite existing content for the new content management system, test it, and finally publish the new site live.

An introduction to personas and how to create them

Before embarking on any intranet or website design project,it is important to understand the needs of your users. Tina Calabria's article offers some great tips on what personas are and how they can help make your web site successful.

Hicksdesign web site

Check out Jon Hicks web site...the creator for the Firefox logo.

Usability...again

Here's a web site by Anitra Pavka. Interesting thoughts on Web standards, usability and accessibility. Oh, and she’s really nice too! Her home page is a Weblog of breaking Web accessibility news, articles, and upcoming events. Since accessibility is an integral part of usability, she also tiee in major usability resources and information. Check it out here.

For the photographer buff

Browse around Adam Polselli's web site. Terrific use of photos and a very unique and appealing design. Go here.

Return of Design

Let’s start talking about the “design” part of Web design again. Read the article here.

Article courtesy of Asterisk.

The Internet is fun...again

Firefox has launched it's long awaited broswer version 1.0. Download it here and rediscover the web.