Cooperation, Content Management, and copy that sucks.
This week’s collection is really UI heavy I think. The founder of the web has an article pointing out that cooperation is needed on the web. Tech companies need to give a little in order for everyone to benefit from the web.
Making Your Content Management System Work for You: An Interview with Jeffrey Veen look at issues surrounding CMS. I like the first and second questions. Choice quote: When asked about the difficulties of adopting a publication mindset – Most designers I’ve worked with know how publications come together and understand their own role in the process… But… Most often, I find that businesses don’t treat their web site as a publication… It is really worth a read.
Two of the best articles this week appeared in my RSS today. If your copy sucks, people will think your service sucks, too. Such an obvious statement but one that is often ignored in the ‘get it on the web now’ hysteria that grips many areas of campus web sites. We all need to work on our writing skills. Now, What’s Wrong with (Almost) All web sites is a decent look at the general state of bad design on the web. Sure you have 30-50 great sites you can think of, there are likely hundreds of thousands of good sites. Just some of the more popular ones can really suck. Maybe they need to take a look at this recipe for web design, yum stir fry.
Some other interesting things:
- Integrated Web Design: Strategies for Long-Term CSS Hack Management
- PHP Login System with Admin features
- Web Standards with a twist
- How To Create Web Information Maps
- ADA undercurrents
- Livesearch – search while you type
- Create easy-to-view tables
- Deisigning for Web Revisitation: Exploiting Structure from User Interaction and Navigation
- 5 things to know about users