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Alternate approaches to styling a You Are Here button: In this week's Design and Usability Tactics newsletter, author Michael Meadhra compares two techniques for styling a "You Are Here" button and explains when you might want to use each one.Which of these two techniques do you prefer and why? Can you suggest other applications for the little-used cursor...; Tags: ARE HERE, Newsletter Editor, programming, Usability Tactics newsletter; Discussion threads 2004-11-23
Debunking the myth of style defaults: This week's Design and Usability Tactics newsletter debunks the myth of style defaults. What default styles cause you the most trouble due to inconsistent implementation in different browsers? Do you have a list of styles that you routinely add to your style sheets in order to counteract browser defaults? If...; Tags: Web browsers, Usability Tactics Newsletter, Usability Tactics, Design; Discussion threads 2004-10-26
Design a CSS layout with an interesting header: This week's Design and Usability Tactics newsletter demonstrates how to create a CSS layout with an interesting header.Do you have any suggestions for other ways to achieve the same effect as the example? What about other examples of using absolutely positioned elements within a relatively positioned element? If you aren't...; Tags: CSS, Design, Usability Tactics Newsletter, Usability Tactics; Discussion threads 2004-10-12
10 must-read CSS tips: In this week's Design and Usability Tactics newsletter, author Michael Meadhra offers a quick reference list of tips from Trenton Moss' article, "Ten CSS tricks you may not know," complete with the corrections and qualifications that have appeared elsewhere.Do you have a favorite CSS tip that wasn't included in this...; Tags: CSS, Usability Tactics Newsletter, Usability Tactics; Discussion threads 2004-10-05

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Does anyone know what happened to ..: the "Design and Usability Tactics Newsletter," from Builder.com?It seems to have unceremoneously replaced by the "Software/Web Development Netnote Newsletter," from TechRepublic.com.The content of the latter seems to include none of that of the former.Winding Down?Browsing around at www.builder.com.com it looks like Builder.com did not generate the response expected.I finally found...; Tags: newsletter, deepsand, programming; Discussion threads 2005-03-20

Developing a CSS strategy: This week's Design and Usability Tactics newsletter talks about developing a CSS strategy. What strategies do you use for developing and maintaining your CSS style sheet files? Do you have a favorite tip that helps you organize your styles? Let us know.If you aren't subscribed to the free Design and...; Tags: CSS; Discussion threads 2004-11-02
Produce indented navigation lists: This week's Design and Usability Tactics newsletter describes how to create indented navigation lists. How do you like to organize long lists of links? Do you prefer outline-style indents like the ones in this technique, a collection of separate lists, or some other solution?another great onethanks Michael.I like to include...; Tags: Newsletter Editor; Discussion threads 2004-12-07
CSS: To hack or not to hack: In this week's Design and Usability Tactics newsletter, author Michael Meadhra explains why he avoids using hacks whenever possible. He also offers how to select a hack when there is no other way to achieve an acceptable result in today's major browsers.How do you deal with CSS hacks? What hacks...; Tags: CSS, hack, Newsletter Editor, programming, standard solution; Discussion threads 2004-11-09
Build better Web forms with these eight user interface tips: Web forms are an excellent way to gather and exchange information with your Web site's users, especially when that exchange is part of an e-commerce transaction. However, a Web form that users don't complete is a waste of everyone's time. These eight interface-enhancing tips, originally published in TechRepublic's Design and...; Tags: Web, TechRepublic Inc., Web Forms, Channel Management, Marketing; Download resources 2005-03-07
Create a double-gradation background: This week's Design and Usability Tactics newsletter details how to create a double-gradation background.In addition to gradations along both sides of a Web page, this technique could be used to add other kinds of border treatments to the sides or to the top and bottom of a page. Can you...; Tags: technique, Newsletter Editor, programming; Discussion threads 2004-12-14
Digital Library Design for Usability: During the last decade, software designers have made progress in developing usable systems for products such as word processors. Less attention has been given to usability in digital library DL design. In this paper, we discuss two forms of DL usability - interface and organizational. While the Human-Computer-Interaction research community...; Tags: Usability, Digital Library; White papers
Are Usability and Security Two Opposite Directions in Computer Systems?: Instinct tells us that computer security and computer usability are inversely proportional to each other. In other words, the tougher and stricter the security is, the less usability there is, and vice versa. However, there have been plenty of cases where both computer security and computer usability went hand in...; Tags: Instinct, Computer, Productivity, Security; White papers 2004-10-30
Building a Global Corporate Library Portal: Usability Results and Design Implications: This paper presents the findings from usability studies that were conducted as part of efforts to build a global library portal site for a large high tech company. A series of five usability tests were conducted on five different corporate library web sites, all within the same company, but based...; Tags: Usability, Web, Hewlett-Packard Co., Web Site, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Portals, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing; White papers 2001-11-05
Vital Marketing: Ten Core Tactics to Improve Marketing Campaign Effectiveness and Efficiency: Download this JupiterResearch report, sponsored by RightNow Technologies, to read about 10 core tactics you can use to boost the performance of your e-mail marketing campaigns. These vital marketing tactics include building and sharing robust customer profiles, optimizing registration and landing pages, segmenting lists, testing campaign performance, tailoring offers through...; Tags: RightNow Technologies, Marketing Research, Marketing; White papers 2004-02-14
Usability in Enterprise Customer Service Applications: The Impact to Productivity, Customer Satisfaction, and Profitability: This paper examines the current state of usability in enterprise customer service applications, and the benefits to an organization when those applications are highly usable. It explores how application providers, such as Oracle, are addressing usability issues. It also provides guidelines for evaluating usability, including user feedback, input, and testing;...; Tags: Customer Service, Oracle Corp., Customer Satisfaction, Product Marketing, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software; White papers 2004-11-01
Series 40 Developer Platform 1.0: Usability Guidelines for J2ME Games: This paper provides guidelines for developing easy-to-use, fun, and challenging J2ME games for Nokia Series 40 mobile phones. To help developers implement usability issues in their development projects, a model and recommendations for usability testing and evaluation are included. Research with three different J2ME mobile phone games from three developers...; Tags: Nokia Corp., J2ME, Java, Programming Languages, Software Development, Software/Web Development; White papers 2004-04-21
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
Tactics United (rar): In this game, you can equip yourself with over a hundred swords, spells and items, using these you can decide to join into fights and battles, tactics are essential. Has a few flaws in production leftovers for the game was set up quick, but it is free of charge.; Tags: Tactic, Games, Personal Technology; Software downloads 2005-12-07
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
Better use of form controls: In this week's Design and Usability Tactics newsletter, author Michael Meadhra adds his voice to the general call for better use of form controls, and elaborates on a few of Jakob Nielsen's usage suggestions.Can you think of examples of misused check boxes and radio buttons that make a form confusing...; Tags: checkbox, Newsletter Editor, programming, radio, radio button; Discussion threads 2004-10-19

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