Webdesign
Get flash to fully experience Pearltrees
May 25th, 2011 by Ellyssa Kroski Librarians are increasingly taking part in Web design efforts, usability testing, focus groups, and more in an effort to deliver an engaging user experience to their patrons. If you’re just learning about UX or you’re a seasoned pro these 18 articles, tools, websites, and blogs will help inform your usability initiatives. Articles
18 Usability Resources for Librarians
a Flickr photo embedding utility This utility will allow you to embed a photo from Flickr on your own site while retaining any annotated regions present on the original. See the example below.
Mbedr - Embedded Flickr Notes
Accessibility Updates for Docs, Sites and Calendar
Posted by Naomi Black, Technical Program Manager, Accessibility Earlier this year, members of the blind community shared a powerful message with us about the importance of accessibility. On the Official Google Blog today, we announced some accessibility enhancements to our products, including new keyboard shortcuts and improved screen reader support in Google Docs, Google Sites and Google Calendar . For blind students and employees who rely on assistive technologies to access the web, we hope these improvements will make it easier to use our products.
Layout Gala: a collection of 40 CSS layouts based on the same markup and ready for download!
All layouts use valid markup and CSS, and have been tested successfully on Internet Explorer/win 5.0, 5.5, 6 and beta 2 preview of version 7; Opera 8.5, Firefox 1.5 and Safari 2. Each of the columns could be the longest, and for testing columns length I've used the script filler text on demand . Each layout could represent a site with five main sections: header, content, navigation, other stuff and footer.