The ICU Blog

This blog is written for business clients and Web designers, focussing on such issues as best practices, usability, design trends, behavioral studies, modern standards, and relevant technologies.

 

jQuery Mobile Swipe to Change Pages

Helpful code snippet to make swiped-page-changes a touch more polished.

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Should You Allow Comments on Your Site?

John Gruber has a better way of handling them.

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Tweaking Your Content for the Social Web

Web traffic is coming less from search results and more from browsing.

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Navigation Labels: Clarity Versus Consistency

Should your navigation labels be all verbs or all nouns?

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Site Building: Content Management Systems Versus Frameworks

At what point along a learning curve do you cut your losses, or carry on?

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A Poke in Your Eye Tracking Study

Eye tracking studies and their conclusions turn out to be a hash of pseudo-science and sloppy practice.

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7 Ways to Kill Your SEO Consultant

At a dime a dozen, SEO consultants are scandalously overpriced. Here are 7 simple, honest coding tips that will save you thousands in phony fees and keep you on the right side of Google’s blacklist.

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The New Basics of Marketing

The February 2008 issue of Inc. Magazine had a nice feature section (fourteen brisk pages) on “The New Basics of Marketing.”

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Is Your Web Site Easy to Read? Probably Not.

Most Web sites are crammed with small text that is a pain to read. This snarky article from Tokyo has the fix.

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The 7 Characteristics of Good Domain Names

Even though many successful domains embrace only a few of these characteristics, they’re still the seven most important things to consider when choosing your domain.

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