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M&W recently attended the Drupalcon conference in SF and had a chance to sit in on a few really interesting sessions. Facebook (FB) applications have been around for a while now and most of us are familiar with the super lame “I threw a snowball at you”, or “you got bitten by a vampire” style of app so I wanted to see what else you could do with FB.
This post will be mostly about the session presented by Dave Cohen and the notes I took.
The McCormick & Winter team is on the road to recovery from three intense days of Drupalcon San Francisco. Though we hope to share more of what we discovered on this blog in the coming weeks, the highlights that come immediately to mind are these:
Everyone who's worked with McCormick & Winter over the years know what a big deal we are. M&W now has some proof though. Sweeping the web category with a gold and silver award, we've been taking our giant faux crystal statue with us on most outings these days.
The debate over external links automatically opening in a new window goes far back. For many years, giving links their own window was considered a crime almost as grievous as ambushing visitors with a pop-up window (i.e. a window that automatically comes up without the user clicking an external link). Then, seemingly out of nowhere, browsers developed tabs, allowing users to open multiple web pages at once in what was actually a single browser window. Web addicts around the world cheered for joy; many developers pronounced the opening of external links in a new window an official best practice.
In a previous post, we stressed the importance of developing for different screen resolutions; you may have noticed that we conveniently dodged any meaningful discussion of the true screen resolution demon, namely, the mobile device (it even sounds slightly sinister, come to think of it). In this post, we’re back for revenge.
Everything you need to know about screen resolution and how it affects the way people see your website.
The only thing worse than a website that doesn’t have what users are looking for is a website that does but makes it all but impossible to find. Here are some tricks for keeping your site neat and easy to use.
If you’re considering building a site that doesn’t have a content management system (CMS), we’ve got news for you: it’s not the ‘90s anymore, kid. But assuming you’re not stuck in the last ice age, exactly which CMS, of the hundreds of options out there, should you be using? Alas, there is probably no single right answer, but here are the reasons we like and use Drupal and think you should too.
Even if you’re not already familiar with the concept of user-centered design (UCD), you’d probably rattle off a pretty good definition if we asked you to hazard a guess. In short, it involves keeping the end user of a product – be it a website, a car, or an ATM card – in mind through every single step of the design process, then mercilessly testing the 'finished' product on real users and tweaking it based on their responses.
Before we begin, let’s be clear on one thing: Flash is not inherently evil. On the contrary, many websites owe their usability and original design to Flash. It’s only when Flash technology falls into the wrong hands that things can go badly, badly awry.
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