During Thursday’s class Dr. Piercy had us optimize a link directory page for iPhone usability. Though he led us to water by pointing us to Jonathan Stark’s “Building iPhone Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript,” that doesn’t mean I can drink. It is a tremendous source of information, and does an excellent job boiling down [...]
Archive for November, 2009
Teamwork Rules – Optimizing for iPhone
Posted in Uncategorized on November 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
E-Commerce breakdown
Posted in Uncategorized on November 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Last week in class we scratched the surface a bit about e-commerce. As Dr. Piercy demonstrated in class, e-commerce is characterized by six major criteria: 1) ubiquity – it’s everywhere even if we don’t realize- downloading a ringtone, ordering online, getting a hot app.. 2) global reach – the internet is everywhere. So is internet [...]
SEO DON’Ts
Posted in primary, tagged SEM, SEO, Sherpa on November 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
You know your do’s, but do you know your SEO DON’Ts? On Thursday David Felfoldi of Atl-based Sherpa Web Studios talked about the do’s and don’ts of SEO/SEM. Many people are somewhat familiar with the basic do’s (I wrote a research paper on it, available here), but what of the don’ts? I realized I hadn’t [...]
Is your site found, or Findable? The Big Difference.
Posted in primary, tagged accessibility, accessible web design, credibility, desirability, findability, information architecture, SEO, usability on November 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
According to ancient lore and Wikipedia, “findability” is “the ability of users to identify an appropriate website and navigate the pages of the site to discover and retrieve relevant information resources… The focus on findability is on facilitating and enhancing the user’s overall experience with an information resource.” Peter Morville, author of Ambient Findability, literally wrote [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on November 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Ipone apps are cool, we got it. But what are the best practices for developing web sites for viewing on an iphone? Find below links to sites that assist development in key areas: General iPhone Web page best practices 6 Steps to Building a Better iPhone app – Mashable.com Working with the viewport Define a [...]
