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"[With eyetracking] we can see that a user may navigate the page of an interface that houses the info she wants," she said, "but if the text is poorly presented, or the navigation is cluttered, or there are too many superfluous images so she cannot easily

"In terms of your career, this means that you should be setting aside time for training and development — some of which is focused on making you better at your current job and some of which is focused on getting you towards the next step in your career

Here’s a catalog of career refactorings you can apply to help move yourself towards your own vision of what you want to be doing next.

How to Download FLV (Flash Video) from Flash Video sites

You can then quite easily subscribe to individual Tube lines and get updates via whatever means you deem appropriate as you would as a Twitter user.

The process of assigning either unique version names or unique version numbers to unique states of computer software.

JavaScript code to Detect available Fonts using JavaScript and CSS.

JavaScript library that facilitates handling Wiimote keycodes

This article shows some of the new functionality of the proposed form chapter of HTML5: Web Forms 2.

While Ask & Google use the title and meta description directly from Netflix, Yahoo! and MSN are pulling data from the Yahoo! directory and DMOZ (respectively).

Opera now includes a developer console that can be added into the browser with many new features. The developer console includes new tools including DOM inspector, JavaScript inspector, CSS editor and HTTP header inspector.

RoboBraille automates the translation of text documents into Braille and speech. The service is available free of charge to all non-commercial users.

swfIR gives you the ability to apply an assortment of visual effects to any or all images on your website.

Identifies the problematic parts of your message and makes recommendations for changes.

Short, simple bits of knowledge for better Web design, authoring, and use, on quality issues related to W3C technologies such as HTML, CSS, HTTP.

Here’s a detailed overview of the process we use for carrying out multiple assessments for projects like Better Connected, with some of the background about how we developed this process.

WhatWhat Status was designed to eliminate massive status reports that had to be completed weekly by developers, then condensed by project managers, and eventually delivered to senior management.

Products for project planning, system administration, usability testing, collaborative development, and web services.

PNGGauntlet is a .NET program that uses Ken Silverman's PNGOut to optimize PNG files.

Planix is a hosted application that enables project teams to consistently and accurately estimate the resources, scheduling and cost of their software development projects.

Hosted subversion with built-in deployment and Basecamp integration.

If you want to become involved in something worthwhile and whose purpose has been woefully mischaracterized, become a Web quality activist and lend some of that communication skill to this worthy social cause.

"My opinion is still that using % in the body and em for units is superior is it allows for text resizing in IE/win, is less browser specific (both methods are foiled by the typographical workings of IE5, but the Keyword Approach stumbles in some versions

To implement a successful content management system, we have to go beyond business process and technology and understand how the organization, as an organism, interacts with and uses its content.

On any given Web page, users will either: 1. click something that appears to take them closer to the fulfillment of their goal, 2. or click the Back button on their Web browser.

A gathering of open source tools, plugins, APIs, and code for use with RedDot CMS.

Community site for users of Open Text's RedDot Content Management System.

It’s common for people to ask for improvement figures, and usability just doesn’t work quantitatively, so it’s good to have some defensive arguments up my sleeve.

FeedBlendr will grab all the feeds you enter and blend them up into a nice, thick, 'river of news' smoothie. You'll get a URL where you can subscribe to everything all at once.

Neither intranets nor extranets are offered to the general public and if software is a product then it's not a service – so you might think they're all irrelevant to the DDA. Not so.

The forces try new tactics to entice fresh blood

Truwex manages website compliance with web accessibility, online privacy, quality standards.

Microsoft may have abandoned it, but the original Xbox still has some life left. Here are six ways you can maximize your investment.

find blogged photos, show flickr score, discover photos in explore and much more...

The closing date for tenders to run the “targeted help” scheme to help the elderly and disabled in the switchover to Digital TV from analogue has now passed.

Building a green PC means you can be part of the solution by using all lead-free parts that are also more energy-efficient.

A set of well proven professional collaboration tools made easy to be usable for everyone.

Write notes, sketch drawings, upload pictures, share files... Everyone sees the same screen

If you think your website is [AAA compliant], then I’m sorry to tell you - you’re almost certainly wrong.

RedDot tracking on CMS Watch

The Integrated Public Sector Vocabulary (IPSV) is an 'encoding scheme' for populating the e-GMS Subject element of metadata.

Is page source order important to screen reader users?

Javascript is becoming increasingly popular on websites, from loading dynamic data via AJAX to adding special effects to your page. Unfortunately, these features come at a price.