This morning I was browsing the new Drupal fueled look to evolt, a web developer site I’ve been tapping into for so long I cannot remember, and started reading Isaac Forman’s Usable Forms (for an international audience). It’s a good review of some of the pitfalls in web forms when we are not thinking enough […]

Previously I described my usual reluctance to be first out of the gate to do an operating system update, so until this afternoon I was still running Jaguar / Mac OSX 10.3. To be honest and repetitive, an operating system is really not something I like to focus on- a good OS should be as […]

This might be a sideways version of a screen cast. At Mboffin.com, Dylan created an animated GIF that shows a screen shot captures for each change as a web site was developed. You can watch it evolve from un-formatted semantic HTML through different iterations of font sizes, creation of the page elements, etc. It’s a […]

A new web technology is tickling my antennae. I hardly know enough about Ajax (bit WikiPedia does) to write about it. In my nutshell, it allows you to create interactive web pages or web pages with navigation that can change content within the page without doing a fresh HTTP request (a.k.a loading a new URL) in the browser.

In the webspace, there is an over dominance of web sites (think online shopping, your course management system) that involve a series of web forms that are filled out, submitted, another page of forms appears that must be filled out, submitted, etc. It gets rather tedious for all those server transactions, and on a user experience end, it interrupts the thought process, or we have gotten so used to it, we expect to be interrupted.

Something like Ajax and the in page editing tools of flickr can be the signposts for the next stage in how we interact with web content, which may not be s series of click submit wait click submit wait. I am getting a good feeling about what AJAX offers– even if the slashdot club cries about if “being nothing new”— who gives a hoot about who did it first? The point is to do something interesting/useful with aq technology, not pee on the ground to say “I did it first”.

So, I’m sniffing a bit more. Read on…

I guess the world needs a few more sites to post and share web site bookmarks. The newest flavor that came our way from a reader is Feedmarker, which is the newest blade in my Web Site Submission Multitool bringing the total here to 13. Also, someone asked about adding Wists, the site tool that […]