Web users “getting more selfish”, hate widgets

Posted by John Lampard on Tuesday, 27 May, 2008 to the technology subset

Web users “getting more selfish”
Website users are more interested in cutting to the chase, that is seeking whatever information they are looking for, and then moving on.
This means they don’t particularly appreciate efforts by a website owner to encourage them to stay and look around, according to usability expert Jakob Nielsen.
Bloggers will also be [...]

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Fluster

Posted by John Lampard on Thursday, 27 September, 2007 to the comment subset

The recent launch of BlogRush goes to show just how easy it is to generate a load of hype and bloated levels of expectation over what is really only a blogroll. Blogrush, blogroll, see?
Hailed by its creators as a “Cooperative Syndication Network”, the BlogRush widget lists recent posts from blogs that are part of its [...]

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Abridged

Posted by John Lampard on Monday, 13 August, 2007 to the blogs subset

I may not be a luddite, but there’s no denying disassociated.com is pretty lo-tech. There’s a definite lack of gidgets and widgets, twitter chat boxes, and whatever other uber cool web apps, going on around here.
Deciding to migrate disassociated.com to the Wordpress blogging platform (how do you like my IT speak?) was like a “giant [...]

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RTS

Posted by John Lampard on Saturday, 28 July, 2007 to the technology subset

I always like to think I learnt web design by “the book”.
And back in 1997 it wasn’t a very big book, but in those early days there were a couple of basic tenets that “designers” adhered to. Or were meant to adhere to.
1. Manually code your HTML. Never use WYSIWYG webpage editors. They “inserted” all [...]

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