Over the years, a typical organisation’s web site grows like a garden.
Some parts of the web site flourish, becoming lush with useful content and links. Other areas suffer from neglect, developing bare patches or sprouting thickets of weed-like content that is outdated, superseded or simply not appealing to visitors.
Eventually, minor niggles add up to a [...]
Monthly Archives: November 2007
Before starting a web redevelopment project, you need to be able to answer questions like these:
Which pages or subsites are important enough to warrant immediate attention?
What, specifically, is wrong with those pages? (Consider both the organisation’s perspective and the end-user’s perspective — they may not match!)
What problems can be fixed at minimal cost to the [...]
M’colleagues Usability Guy and Zeebleblibbet are running an online survey this month. Inspired by the recent A List Apart survey, it’s designed to find out some basic information about who ‘does web’ at this university.
Usability Guy commented on an internal discussion list:
We… spend much money on technology, hardware, processes, buildings etc. but how much time [...]
Toolkit: SnagIt
03-Nov-07 Over the years, I’ve built up a toolkit of essential software, gadgets and reference material. This ‘toolkit’ series introduces some particular favorites that you, too, might find useful.
SnagIt
A lightweight, easy-to-use application that takes snapshots of what’s displayed on your computer screen.
Great for writing web site reviews, manuals and technical documentation for software systems, reports [...]