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:: Thursday, October 30, 2003 ::

Put your footer where your page is. Put your footer down explores the real life and times of your web page footer. Does it want to be there? What possible use could that string of stuff at the bottom of a web page be for? If you've been keeping up with me, you'll know it has value for both usability and SEO. But, one study says many people may never see it!

I've been reconnecting with some friends I first met online starting in 1995. They know me by the name "Dancing Thunder". That's because when PCs were starting to blend into everyone's kitchen (ok, that's where I put mine for years!), nobody dared to admit their real name. I wonder why that was! Anyway, I could travel newsgroups and lists as DT and walk out my door and nobody knew Kim was DT. That was really fun. So, now I go back to a favorite list as Kim and it feels really boring to be her. Can we bring back those fun names we used to call ourselves?

If you love Ammon (aka Black Knight) - most people still know him as that Black Knight guy - you'll love his The State of Cloaking Today

Creeping up...October 2003 Bandwidth Report - US Broadband Breaks 40% That still means 60% are crawling the 'Net on the back of their modem turtles and not waiting for your BIG pages to load. There's some news in the article about British users too.

What is big deal about User Testing versus Heuristic Analysis? Well, since you asked.

"Task analysis is by far the better choice for testing, but it's time consuming. The method I developed for the usability evaluations I conduct for clients is a combo approach.

Step one is to determine the business objectives of a website based on what I see that they've done so far. If I don't see obvious causes for a website's existence or purpose, then they need to reevaluate how they met their perceived goals.

Step two is to offer feedback on who I think their target market/audience is based on how they designed their site. They see if this matches what they intended.

Step three is develop a user persona and I assign this user a specific task, such as "find blah blah". As I conduct the steps this user takes, I can detect problems and defects very quickly.

Third is the heuristic evaluaiton, which is based on my experience testing software and websites. I go way past the surface stuff and check for elements that are both common, and uncommon, to websites." -- I wrote.

My buddy Peter DaVanzo (picture handsome guy from New Zealand with a really smart SEO blog), found this and I'm still cracking up >>> Andrew Goodmen on Corey Rudl . I've tried numerous times, unsuccessfully, to rid myself of CR spam emails tooting his own horn. How can THAT MUCH EGO fit into one human being, anyway?

Personal Note to Robert C. and Chris S. We're still here!!! (hint hint)

:: posted by Kim Krause Berg on 10/30/2003 01:19:00 PM

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