Warmest Greetings,
:: Friday, October 31, 2003 ::
Robert Clough didn't need any horse's head. He just needed me to publically throw a huge hint online (see yesterday's blog entry) a little...>>> How does SEARCHENGINEWATCH choose it's forum highlights?
So Robert, (who is a great sport!) at least, from Search Engine News decided to feature a thread from Cre8asiteForums in his Oct 30 issue. Not sure yet what I have to do to sweet talk Search Engine Watch.
Not that I want to compete with Jill Whalen or anything. (cough, wink, wink, duck)
I was notified that Cre8asiteForums were well spoken of in a UK web magazine called Web User
It reads:
"This excellent site has a real community feel, combining helpful advice with a lightness of tone sadly lacking in many web building forums. Picture profiles accompanying many users' messages and a casual approach to naming threads ('I have a misbehaving navigation button') help create an amicable atmosphere, making it easy to jump into discussions. There are separate message boards for website design, programming, online marketing, search engine optimisation and many other useful topics, plus tutorials penned by members on specific tasks. Particularly useful is the Website Hospital forum, where you can put your site up for (constructive) criticism, if you dare."
To view a scanned version of the article, click here. (Thanks Cheester!)
Thank you very much Web User! May you gain many new subscribers for your kind words on behalf of Cre8asiteForums.
Okay. On to some news.
I could go into Google stuff, but Andy Beal is doing such a great job of it in his blog, I'll just send you to SearchEngineLowDown. He gets the meaty stories!
Former and present Google, Paypal and Yahoo! guys are interested in dating >>> "Friendster may be the hottest dot.com to show up since Google."
Most people and companies invest thousands to prep homes and businesses to meet Section 508 requirements, or simply make it easier to use a facility by special needs, handicapped and disabled persons. It only costs $100 to learn what needs to be fixed in your website for those same people. If you sell anything online, don't forget these customers! If you help them, they'll send their friends and become loyal visitors. It's attention to these details that can be more cost effective than banner and text ads.
As a follow up, free usability testing is offered here. Smart people take the time to learn how to do things right. It's empowering to pull your own wagon, isn't it?
Happy Halloween and related Autumn festivals, bonfires, etc.
:: posted by Kimberly Krause on 10/31/2003 09:54:04 AM
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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 Kimberly Krause on 10/30/2003 01:19:00 PM
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:: Wednesday, October 29, 2003 ::
DID YOU MISS ME???????? 
If you wondered what the heck happened to Kim, I've been out of body since the night of Tues, Oct. 21, when I came down with a sudden "headcold". It knocked me down cold, no pun intended. Today is day 3 of being on antibiotics for what the Doctor says is an "acute sinus infection", but I still have a low grade fever and still can't breathe.
But, I could finally crawl to my office.
One of the things that's cheered me up is the crazy gang at Cre8asiteForums. I had asked for some fun Halloween season changes to our logo.
But the moderators and now many guests are having tons of fun with their avatars.
Speaking of forums, my friend Bill Slawski found this great blog about online communities called Everything in Moderation.
While sick, I've caught up with my favorite soap opera, General Hospital.
Every other week Sonny is having a nervous breakdown or being shot, and his wife is kidnapped, in car accidents or being shot. Now, one of the latest guys to kidnap her has fallen in love with her, despite her being married and about to deliver her husband Sonny's baby. One stormy night last week Carly and Sonny have another fight, she runs off, falls down a flight of stairs and labor starts. Her husband, and the bad guy who also loves her, rush to find her. The bad guy gets to her first. Meanwhile, her sister in law nearly gets killed in a car accident (her second on less than 2 months) also on the way to save Carly. Sonny nearly gets killed trying to find her too. When he does, he shoots the bad guy who loves his wife and is delivering the baby while Carly's screaming bloody murder. So Sonny shoots the bad guy who loves his wife AND he manages to also shoot his wife in the head.
The baby lives.
And I'm feeling miserable because I have sinus infection.
:: posted by Kimberly Krause on 10/29/2003 10:20:21 AM
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