Web Experience in a Bubble

Recently I was telling you that I found a book by John Lenker titled Train of Thoughts. The published book talks about assessing your website from a more general point of view. As you know, designing a professional website nowadays isn’t just about the conceptual design but more than that.

Currently, it requires more analytical thinking than slapping physical beauty onto a website. I’ve spoken a bit on this analytical data in User Experience Design. While planning out a website fo a new client, something hit me and I started sketching my analysis of ‘Web Experience in a Bubble’.

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Web Standards Solution

Earlier this month, I reviewed the book by Dan Cederholm called Bulletproof Web Design. In his book, there were lots of coloured pages and well-written guided CSS codes for you to pick it up. At that time I also mentioned that the next book I’ll try to review is his other book, Web Standards Solution.

But here’s an extra treat for everyone, I found another interesting book at MPH Mdvalley that is quite good though very thick and I didn’t get to finish it.

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Is XHTML and CSS easy?

Joshuaink forwarded that question to all his readers in a single entry. It was simple and straight forward to determine if everyone really understood both of these standards based language.

It was really interesting reading all the comments left on his entry, Is XHTML and CSS easy?

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User Experience Design

A title such as this sound quite related to either Jakob Nielsen or Jeffrey Zeldman. Both people if I’m not mistaken has spoken about the above topic. The user experience used to broken up to only 3 main parts, which is the context, content and users.

It was made even into the ‘3 circles of information architecture’ that I found back from Semantic Studios. And to believe that this article was written by Peter Morville actually in 2004. Gosh, website design and development was taking a huge turn now.

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Comment Moderation changes

This might not be that important but it’s best to inform new commenters. I’ve switched off my new comments email notification because of the junk that’s flooding into the blog almost daily. Though the spam control in MT is successfully filtering most of it, the notification is beginning to annoy me because half the time … Read more

Apologies Again

I’m really sorry for the lack of updates the past 2-3 days. It’s really beginning to become habit or a bad practice. However, just a quick update is that I’ve finally pulled my computer out of my box and it’s up and running.

I’ve got quite a number of works on hand at the moment. I also need to get in touch with a few clients regarding their projects. I need to remind them about pending projects or enquire the status of projects.

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Adsense Preview Tool

When building a new weblog or website, the common ads you’ll want to put is Google’s Adsense. But the problem with Adsense was that you need to await approval before you could display them on your website. Also, it’s only after approval that you can see what kind of ads will be hosted based on your site’s content.

Well, here’s a handy dandy tool I picked up from Sitepoint.

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Under Construction Page

I’m sure everyone remembers when they were building a website, most of you liked to have an Under Construction icon with a text saying just that. Well, practicing that is a really bad thing because as much as the sign means something to you labeled undercontstruction.jpg, it might not mean anything for the new user of your website.

Adding to the error most of us have done and maybe still do, we tend to be lazy and leave the page with just those two words. However, there have been new approaches to deal with the lack in communication when there’s a webpage like this nowadays. I’d like to share with you what I’ve found working and not really working.

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RM471.73 per WordPress Template

That’s the rough amount you might have to pay for a designed and coded template. These aren’t my rates but one of the offers I found from the Sitepoint Contests forum thread.

I believe most of you who are reading this are already wondering, why would anyone pay for just a blog redesign? Well, other than being able to fund for it, some people actually recognize the difference when hiring a professional to help them out.

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