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:: Wednesday, July 23, 2003 ::

Web Rank’s “Search Engine Compatibility and the Top 100 New Zealand Company Web Sites” has hit the media outlets and may be surprising to some but not to me. I worked with many web design teams or companies that don't have a working knowledge of SEO nor are willing to incorporate optimization techniques into their pages. One web design company designed their sites completely as graphics! No text. The content is first converted to an image and then put on the page.

Kalena Jordan, of WebRank, says "Websites are often a very large expense for these companies, ranging from a few thousand to hundreds of thousands of dollars. To invest such a massive amount of time, money and effort into an online presence and not ensuring it can be found [in search engines] is like constructing a storefront without any doors." Read more >>> Search Engine News Blog


Never gave it much thought before today, but some health clubs in the US are forced for ban cell phones because the new ones that have cameras have been used in locker rooms and have become a privacy issue~! Watch your butt out there.

Yet another people-powered search engine has been launched. Sniff out Netnose.com

"Many of the "PDF Usability Crimes" you cite have nothing to do with Acrobat or PDF but are the result of poor design choices. Most of same arguments about poor navigation, large file sizes, and excessive text blocks can be used to describe poorly designed HTML as well. There are some very valid reasons for using PDF's online as opposed to HTML." Read more in "To: Dr. Jakob Nielsen From: Robert McDaniels, Adobe Systems"

User personas are valuable tools for usability testing during a build process. Cre8pc.com website evaluations use "user characters". This new article talks about why this approach is useful. Personas: Setting the Stage for Building Usable Information Sites By Alison J. Head

Here's one for ya. Someone searched the Cre8pc.com site for "tummy tuck". Ooohhhhkayyyyyeeeee...

Quote: "We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done." Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

:: posted by Kim Krause Berg on 7/23/2003 11:28:35 AM

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