Linkfest: April 27th, 2003
Published 5 years, 6 months ago in life storiesThis weekend was packed with out of town visitors… and yard work… lots of yard work.
“Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.”
– Henry Kissinger
Scoble: “The Web is killing publishing.” I’d argue that the web is killing ‘traditional’ publishing, just as TV ‘killed’ radio at one point in history. It didn’t kill it, just made it adapt and change to stay successful as a media format.
News.com: Performance-based salaries don’t always pay off
How to extend the reach of a TiBook’s poor Airport reception range [via A Whole Lotta Nothing]
Rich In Style A good CSS resource it seems.
Low End Mac: What We Hate on the Web (from May, 2002 — hopefully to be updated soon.
OJR: Getting to Know You - an article by JD Lasica from June 2002 covering the topic of online registration by news websites.
Ben posted these links on as a comment to a post on Holavaty.com:
Here are some resources I gathered when I was looking into this topic a while back:
Getting your reader’s attention with pull quotes
How you can design for the scan reader
Ever Wondered What Your Users Looked at First?
Why Web Users Scan Instead of Read
Definitely Not Your Father’s Newspaper
Eyetracking Study of Web Readers
Great reading…
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Interesting to note that Rich In Style site uses dumb HTML, font tags, table hacks, etc, for its front page. They seem to be riding other people’s coattails.
The question is, were you researching them to know how to use them on the web, or to debunk their usage? I could prattle on for days about their non-usefulness in a scrolling medium.