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Thesaurus.com: Extending usability through URL’s for intermediate/ power users

If you ever drop by Thesaurus.com, notice on performing a word search its intuitive URL structure. For example, if you’re performing a search for the word ‘sloth’, on hitting the search button and arriving on the next page, the url which appears in your browser is http://thesaurus.reference.com/browse/sloth. This is a good way for users to…
What’s a Favicon and how to Create Your Own Favicon

That little 16×16 image in the address bar left of the URI of some websites is, in case you didn’t, called a Favicon. Creating favicons is really simple. All you have to do to have your own favicon is create a 16×16 graphic in .gif or .jpg format and change the extension to .ico and…
The Graffiti Research Lab

Dedicated to Outfitting Graffiti Artists with Open Source Technologies for Urban Communication
How do you Contact Them? Lycos and WebMokey navigation a puzzle

I was reading up an article at Webmonkey and I noticed that the article’s print version didn’t have the date of the article written on it. Also, besides the first page of the article(web version), the subsequent pages only displayed the name of the article omitting the authors name and date. In my opinion, both…
Thesis: Designing Stand-alone Flash websites according to Usability, Accessibility & Searchability Aspects- A Critical analysis leading to the Formulation of a Development Cycle

View or download my thesis (that topped the batch with a 2.1 on the Middlesex scale) in Pdf or Word format . My thesis topic was “Designing stand-alone Flash websites according to usability, accessibility and searchability aspects- A critical analysis leading to the formulation of a development cycle“. You can view my thesis if you…
Google comes out with Google Print

Google just keeps getting better and better. Try Google Print. What is Google Print? Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information, but much of that information isn’t yet online. Google Print aims to get it there by putting book content where you can find it most easily – right in your Google search results.…
Vischeck- an accessibility tool that shows you how a colorblind person sees your webpage

You might wanna use Vischeck when designing (accessible) websites. It shows you how your website will look to the color blind.
W3C kicks in with it’s Mobile Web Initiative (2005)

MWI recognizes the mobile device as a first class participant of the Web. – Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Director. This is what W3C Director, Tim Berners-Lee said at the launch of its Mobile Web Initiative (MWI) three days back with the aim of simplifying the browsing experience from a mobile device to that of a computer…
New Working Draft of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 (WCAG) is out

Since the previous public Working Draft of WCAG 2.0, published on 30 July 2004, the WCAG working group has incorporated over 200 public comments. To help address usability issues raised with the July drafts, WAI also developed “Introduction to Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 Working Draft Documents” as a starting point for WCAG 2.0.…