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- Apply 'thought design' methods to your Web design
- This article originally appeared as a Design and Usability Tactics e-newsletter.By Jim KukralI think moreWeb designers need to practice what I like to call "thoughtdesign." Thought design is the practice of identifying, separating,and displaying your site objectives in a clear and understandableway on your Web site. Thought design enables you...
- Tags: Channel management, Web site development, Web design, Jim Kukral, Web
- Technical articles 2003-09-29
- How to sell your Web design to the boss
- This article originally appeared as a Design and Usability Tactics e-newsletter.By Jim KukralYou devote hours to building the perfect Webdesign for your company's new Web site. The colors are dead on;your navigation couldn't be any clearer; the words read perfectlyand jump off the page. But you aren't done: You still...
- Tags: Channel management, Web design, Web, Jim Kukral
- Technical articles 2003-09-29
- Operate on the less-is-more philosophy
- Tags: Channel management, minimalist, Jim Kukral
- Technical articles 2003-09-29
- Keep customers happy with error handling
- This article originally appeared as a Design and Usability Tactics e-newsletter.By Jim KukralImagine that you're watching someone tryingto buy a widget from your Web site. The user fills out the creditcard information, hits Submit, the screen refreshes, and nothinghappens. The user thinks there must be an error but doesn't knowwhat...
- Tags: Channel management, Error Handling, Jim Kukral
- Technical articles 2003-09-29
- Strategies for successful portal design
- This article originally appeared as a Design and Usability Tactics e-newsletter.By Jim KukralWhen you design an informational Web site fora specific audience, you're building a portal. Some types ofportals include displays for a Web phone, an e-marketplace, or anintranet. While I won't be able to touch upon everyaspect...
- Tags: Portals, Web technology, strategy, Yahoo! Inc., About Inc., Jim Kukral, portal
- Technical articles 2003-09-29
- Design call-to-action statements that get results
- This article originally appeared as a Design and Usability Tactics e-newsletter.By Jim KukralBrowse your Web site as though you're apotential customer. Do you feel like you're wandering aimlessly, ordo you have a clear sense of how to navigate the site? Thedifference can mean generating sales and/or gaining a valuedcustomer, or...
- Tags: Channel management, Web site development, call-to-action, Jim Kukral, call-to-action statement, Web
- Technical articles 2003-09-29
- Learn how to chart a better site map
- This article originally appeared as a Design and Usability Tactics e-newsletter.By Jim KukralAs a Web designer and HTML builder, one ofthe first places I visit on a Web site is the site map. The sitemap shows an entire overview of the structure of the site, and moreimportantly, indicates how much...
- Tags: Channel management, Web technology, Jim Kukral, site map
- Technical articles 2003-09-29
- Resources to find design inspiration
- This article originally appeared as a Design and Usability Tactics e-newsletter.By Jim KukralCreativity is what motivates designers'decisions and molds our final sculptures. It's not only our key tosurvival, but it also separates us from the pack. Oftentimes, themore creative a designer is, the more successful they become. ...
- Tags: Channel management, Web technology, Jim Kukral, inspiration
- Technical articles 2003-09-29
- Designing with photography and online photo resources
- This article originally appeared as a Design and Usability Tactics e-newsletter.By Jim KukralWeb design can only go so far usingselections from Microsoft'sDesign Gallery of clip art. As your site or intranet "growsup," design expectations will mature, and let's face it: Clip artoften makes designs look amateurish. A good photograph, on...
- Tags: AbleStock, Corbis, Comstock, Getty Images, FreeStockPhotos.com, image, photograph, online photo, Jim Kukral
- Technical articles 2003-09-29
- Make the right color choices
- This article originally appeared as a Design and Usability Tactics e-newsletter.By Jim KukralLet's face it, not everyone has an eye forcolor. If you're one of those people, you need to either rely on aprofessional designer's opinion, or learn how to pick and use coloryourself. Another alternative is to use the...
- Tags: Jim Kukral, primary color, secondary color
- Technical articles 2003-09-24
Additional Resources
- SAN Lessons Learned
- When Brocade Director of IT, Jim Ravelli, implemented a SAN last year, he went through many of the same steps you might encounter in migrating to a SAN architecture. In this FREE webcast "SAN Lessons Learned," Jim will describe the Brocade IT environment before the SAN, and the steps involved...
- Tags: Brocade Communications Systems Inc., SAN, Storage Area Networks (SAN), Storage Management, Storage, Hardware
- Webcasts
- Close the sale with persuasive design
- This article originally appeared as a Design and Usability Tactics e-newsletter.By Jim KukralWeb designers must learn how to motivateusers through persuasive design techniques. It's one thing to makeit easier for a user to add an item to a shopping cart usabilitydesign; it's another to actually get users to click the...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Web site development, Channel management, persuasive design, technique, Andrew Chak, Web, Web site
- Technical articles 2003-09-29
- 10 things you should know about Windows XP's System Restore tool
- Revert to restore point from O/S CD boot?Does anyone know of a way to go back to a restore point if you boot from the Windows XP installation CD and go to the "recovery" console (e.g., a command prompt)?Thanks,JimHow to restore Windows XP registry from a restore point using the...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows XP, Jim, restore point, windows, troubleshooting, Thanks Jim, jfs-tr@..., hardware, Microsoft Windows, tool, system restore
- Discussion threads 2006-03-14
- How do I... Use BootVis to improve XP boot performance?
- BootVis.exe is a free Microsoft utility that can help users boot their machines and access the operating system more quickly. Jim McIntyre shows you how it works. by Jim McIntyre
- Tags: Boot Process, Disk, Performance, Driver, File, Defragmentation, BootVis, BootVis.exe, Layout.ini, Figure C Here, Figure D BootVis, Figure F, Figure G BootVis, Microsoft Windows XP, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Jim McIntyre
- Blog posts 2008-07-22
- Make sure project managers accurately convey your ideas
- Tags: Team management, team
- Technical articles 2003-09-29
- Is Flash more usable than it was in 2000?
- This article originally appeared as a Design and Usability Tactics e-newsletter.By Jim KukralMacromedia's Flash is an amazing technology.It can bring a boring Web surfing experience to life through soundand animation, all in a short download. Though Flash is deservedlyconsidered a killer application, is it usable? In October 2000,...
- Tags: Channel management, Nielsen, Macromedia Flash, Web
- Technical articles 2003-09-29
- Cull vital statistics from log files to analyze user trends
- This article originally appeared as a Design and Usability Tactics e-newsletter.By Jim KukralWhen your Web server is set up to record yourWeb site's log files, you have access to usage data. This data canhelp you increase sales, expand readership, enable higherclickthroughs, and more. A log file stores...
- Tags: Web site development, Web technology, Channel management, Web site, Web
- Technical articles 2003-09-29
- No, I do not need a hug
- It's happened to me twice. Once I had just launched a new project after a couple of months and it was a big success. My male boss hugged me. The second time was when I accepted a lateral job offer in the same company. My new male boss, who also...
- Tags: hug
- Blog posts 2006-03-02
- Jim Yilmaz
- blog root
- Tags: Blogging, Horixon
- Discussion threads 2006-01-04
- Preempting data warfare: The art of comprehensive vulnerability management
- This sample chapter, taken from Larstan's the Black Book on Corporate Security, discusses the importance of comprehensive vulnerability management. Comprehensive vulnerability management reduces exposure and risks from security incidents that might otherwise occur as a result of having longer time intervals between inspections.This sample chapter, taken from...
- Tags: Corporate Security, Vulnerability Management, Security
- Book chapters 2005-12-02
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