Usability is an essential part of website design. From content and colour to buttons and checkout baskets, many issues need to be considered to ensure a website meets best practice standards. Here are five insightful websites that can guide you through the usability maze... 1.     Useit.com http://www.useit.com/ Jakob Nielsen’s usability studies and “Alert Box” posts are legendary, and deal with a wide range ...
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Web design is a constantly evolving field, so how do you keep track of its latest developments, learn new techniques or get inspired? Here are five top websites for web designers, whether you're fresh out of a design course or self-taught and have been doing it for years... 1. Smashing Magazine http://www.smashingmagazine.com The world’s biggest design blog, and up there among the best. ...
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LinkedIn has launched a news aggregation service that will introduce many professional internet users to the concept of social news for the first time.  It promises to deliver a customised online newspaper that will be assembled by algorithms, rather than journalists. The new service called LinkedIn Today will: Allow LinkedIn users to filter news pages by up to 22 sectors Display the stories ...
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Martin Clarke, the Daily Mail executive who runs MailOnline, says a tenth of the site's UK traffic is generated by referrals from Facebook – and North Korean dictator Kim il Jong may be a fan too. "The social networks are becoming increasingly important to us," Clarke told delegates at the Society of Editors annual conference in Glasgow. "If you want an engaging ...
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Any idea what the above picture is all about? No, it's not a piece of abstract art, but a map of Dublin as you've probably never seen it before. Basically the darker areas of the map show the most photographed places in Dublin, in the area from the city centre down to the Grand Canal. It's part of photographer Eric Fischer's ...
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