A final post for today (hopefully): a round-up of some interesting things found recently
Less is more for University websites says Gerry McGovern. Well, yes, we could have told him that. In fact, we could have written this article, several years ago. Still it's good to see that ideas such as these are garnering a wider audience. Jakob Nielsen has conducted a usability review of the email newsletters of Bush & Kerry, currently fighting out for the position of most powerful man in the world. Both fail generally to make use of what could indeed be a good campaign tool. I think it will be a while before we see email, or the web for the that matter, used well by our local politicians. Cameron Adams has posted about designing for different screen resolutions and a way in which he believes the problem can be solved. It's both fixed and flexible width. Or neither. Read it yourself. A little while back Louis Rosenfeld posted his information architecture heuristics. For the rest of us, that means, a set of questions he uses to evaluate the IA of sites. As usual Rosenfeld has supplied some very useful tools to that can be adapted to the stuff we do at Sydney. On the subject of Louis, via his discussion of IA guidelines I found a link to the Best Practice website used by PBS (telly station in the US) to disseminate knowledge and guidelines to a distributed audience. It is a good example of the sort of thing we may be able to achieve on the Web Services site.
Ok, I can hear my son waking from his afternoon nap so it's ciao for now.
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