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:: Monday, June 30, 2003 ::

For the latest update on website accessibility adherence, grab a printer or curl up with your laptop >>> Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0W3C Working Draft 24 June 2003

Cre8asiteForums discusses it, and "flicker rates" >>> WCAG 2.0 (Accessibility Guidelines Draft

If you can't get your site into DMOZ (Open Directory), Cre8asiteForum's new DMOZ forum moderator, Jean Manco, may be able to offer suggestions. We welcomed Jean recently to the Cre8asiteForums team.

Coming in for a landing. "A landing page is the page where visitors from specific places, or with specific interests, will first land on your site. As such, whether or not it needs to be optimised for ranking, it absolutely must be optimised to make a good first-impression, and to engage the visitor, thus beginning the conversion process."
Ammon Johns talks about Landing Paths

User testing site of interest, that offers 5% off to Cre8asiteForums guests >>> Site-report.com

Some are saying "shove this." Google Toolbar 'BlogThis' Rankles Rivals .

Jakob Nielsen outdid himself with this one. Information Foraging: Why Google Makes People Leave Your Site Faster. Learn about "Informavore navigation behavior", hunting, scent, foraging...

"...eventually too many Americans will be having fun. This is unacceptable." A bit of marketing fun by Panasonic >>> People against fun

Which reminds me of the wedding I attended on Saturday. It was an outdoor picnic/wedding ceremony on a large country farm in New Jersey attended by people ranging from corporate execs to programming gurus specializing in MIVA and JAVA to the guys who hang out at the local bar to regular folks who collect antique cars, drink lotsa beer and don't visit the Dentist that often.

The ceremony itself lasted 5 minutes. The bride and groom read their vows and sweated in the hot sun along with the local town Mayor. The rest of us gathered around in a large group around the couple, wearing shorts, t-shirts, sandals or no shoes, straw hats and baseball caps and were holding beers, bottled water and soda cans. Everyone cheered and applauded when the couple were pronounced "husband and wife". The groom, in his 50's and marrying for the first time, took as his bride one of the most graceful, down to earth, supportive women I've ever met, who is at least 15 years younger than him. When in the presence of true devoted love, it's easy to have hope for ourselves.

Within a half hour of the ceremony, a laptop appeared with a slideshow of all the digital photos taken so far. It was one of the highlights of the wedding. Everyone could see themselves and re-live moments that just occured, in the presence of those who also experienced the same things.

We had the setting for a really good TV commerical.

:: posted by Kim Krause Berg on 6/30/2003 12:28:16 PM

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