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New Usability Newsletter  

:: Monday, February 02, 2004 ::

The first issue of Sucessful Sites made its debut and demand has already caused it to be a bi-montly pub rather than monthly, as originally planned. You can read the first issue online >>> Welcome to the Successful Sites Newsletter!

Published by Scottie Claiborne of Right Click Web Consulting, "Successful Sites was born from a need to address everything that makes a site great- usability, copywriting, design, marketing strategy, content and more. We will cover a wide variety of topics with easy-to-follow advice and strategies that you can apply to your own site."

The first article is written by expert Christine Churchill, founder of KeyRelevance, a search engine marketing firm. She writes Improve the Readability of Your Web Page

Sign up for Successful Sites is totally free!

Another handy usability resource is from FalkoWeb, where the emphasis is on research and usability. Sally Falkow writes a newsletter every month with interesting articles such as "E-Branding, What Is It?" and "Finding Your Site in the Haystack". These and other valuable articles are located here at FalkoWeb Newsletter. Sign up is free.

If you're an Orkutaholic (or Orkut "slut" as some people are now calling it, referring to the "Run out and grab every person you know to increase your friend count" thing), Cre8asiteForums started a new Community at Orkut called "Holistic Web Design". The mission is:

"Web sites should be built to be usable by visitors and indexed easily by search engines, while adding value to the site's owners by fulfilling business objectives.

This forum is intended to allow a cross pollination of ideas between usability and user experience engineers, information architects, search engine optimizers and marketers, interaction designers, captologists, accessibility experts, and site owners."

That's it for today. I'll have more tomorrow. You'll have to come back. (This is my version of those "Be Back in One Hour" signs you see on business doorways.)

In the meantime, we're still deciding if we even like Orkut here Social Networking for Business and if you're starting out and want a few shoulders to lean on, try On starting out and finding clients - Some ideas

:: posted by Kim Krause Berg on 2/02/2004 10:04:11 PM

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