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10 Blog Usability Guidelines

Saturday, March 29th, 2008

As someone who has studied usability analysis, I've come up with 10 usability guideline which all new bloggers should abide by to help generate subscribers and interest in their site. Clean, simple design - With the hundreds of widgets and scripts now available, a lot of bloggers clutter up their sidebar with numerous bits of functionality, which is fine as long as you don't go over the top. The user is most likely reading your blog to find information which is written in the posts - not the sidebar. Linking - You should insert many links across your posts to encourage users ... Read Article »

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Flickr Video

Tuesday, March 18th, 2008

It has been rumoured that image-sharing Internet giant Flickr will soon be launching a user video-uploading service that could rival YouTube's monopoly on the current market. This type of diversification isn't unknown for Web 2.0 companies as we've often seen expansion into other market areas as part of their natural progression and the strengthening of their userbase. Google has already made a head start with its purchase of YouTube and companies such as Yahoo! are losing ground. Despite Flickr having the advantage of a huge userbase to get off the ground with, I can't believe all of its users will ... Read Article »

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Gestalt Law of Proximity in Web Design

Sunday, March 16th, 2008

Including Gestalt laws of user psychology can go a long way towards ensuring that your website caters for your user's usability needs as they navigate through it. Psychologists have determined that the brain acts in a certain way when perceiving objects on a computer screen, and knowing this can help ensure your site is more concerned about the user's needs than your own. In the next few days I'll go through each gestalt law; Proximity, Similarity, Continuity and Closure, one by one to show how they can be advantageous to website design. I'll start with proximity. Proximity This law refers to the observation ... Read Article »

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What’s Feedburner?

Thursday, March 13th, 2008

A lot of people want to know what's the point in Feedburner? Why use Feedburner? And what does Feedburner do? I attempted to find out... Feedburner is a feed management system that was launched in 2004 and has now recently been acquired by Internet colossal Google. I’ve been trying to figure out what the point in Feedburner is for a while now and this is what I’ve come up with. Basically if you own any type of RSS feed whether it’s from a weblog or a Podcast or otherwise, Feedburner is a service that consolidates that feed so that a ... Read Article »

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Web… who?

Thursday, March 13th, 2008

I was browsing Web 2.0 news on May 8th when I found out about a recent study by Princeton University, which discovered that only 8% of US adults are users of Web 2.0 technologies despite 73% of them have Internet connections. Why is there a disinterest in Web 2.0 among adults? The survey didn’t include teenagers, though I’m sure if it did we’d be looking at a higher percentage as it does seem to be that generation that dominates discussion boards and data sharing sites such as YouTube. On CRN Australia it was reported that “the report doesn't offer much ... Read Article »

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