WordPress is one of, if not the most, popular pieces of software for blogging and managing websites, mostly because of the ease of installation. But customizing it can be a difficult and technical process. Annotum is a WordPress theme built for publishing research papers. It has all of the functionality built-in for multiple authors to [...]

Someone recently asked me about the problems faced by academic library websites and I immediately started writing a list. Being a fairly unique part of an organization is difficult enough. But the radical changes in how people access and use information are still ongoing. What is the Audience? There are many challenges for academic library [...]

The five user number comes from the number of users you would need to detect approximately 85% of the problems in an interface, given that the probability a user would encounter a problem is about 31%. Most people either leave off the last part or are not sure what it means.  This does not apply [...]

I imagine if web managers in libraries have even heard of HTML5 they consider it something to worry about in a few years. The truth is that it brings a lot of useful options that can be used now in most browsers, including IE6 (with a small javascript). The thing that should make librarians happy [...]

An Idiot’s Guide To Accessible Website Design | Web Design Ledger If you are designing web sites in the UK, you probably already know that the Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) mandates web sites be accessible by visually and physically disabled persons. But even if you work in a locale that doesn’t have any accessibility requirements [...]

The Accessibility Checklist I Vowed I’d Never Write | Web Builder Zone I have said on numerous occasions that there is no simple checklist that, when followed, will give you an accessible site without fail. There are simply too many variables. But, what do you do when you want to create accessible pages and you [...]

Jeffrey Zeldman Presents : The Web Design Survey Presenting A List Apart’s first annual web design survey. The information it collects will help us form a long overdue picture of the ways web design is really practiced around the globe. The more people who complete the survey, the richer and more detailed the picture will [...]

InfoTangle :: Information Design for the New Web :: April :: 2007 People are changing the way that they consume online information, as well as their expectations about its delivery. The social nature of the Web brings with it an expectation of interaction with information and modern Web design is reflecting that. There are now [...]

hennepin county library’s bookspace The ever resourceful Librarian in Black breaks a huge story about hennepin county library’s bookspace which is an online community based around books. I’m going to copy her list of things readers can do at bookspace: * create their own account for Book Space * sign up for e-mail alerts on [...]

Tomski: The BBC’s Fifteen Web Principles Build web products that meet audience needs: anticipate needs not yet fully articulated by audiences, then meet them with products that set new standards. (nicked from Google) The very best websites do one thing really, really well: do less, but execute perfectly. (again, nicked from Google, with a tip [...]