Charity websites should focus on writing clear and engaging content
16 February 2011
News > IT news
Jakob Nielsen's latest alertbox concludes that: "Giving money on charity websites is 7% harder than spending money on e-commerce sites. Donating physical items is even harder. For non-profit websites, social media is secondary; the top priority is to write clearer content."
Writing text for links and headings
Jakob Nielsen recently published two interesting articles about authoring web content on his website.
Web standards curriculum
Efforts have begun on identifying the skills and competencies that aspiring web professionals need. Two organisations in particular are developing frameworks to help educational institutions create comprehensive web learning modules.
The mobile web
An article published by usability expert Jakob Nielsen reveals the problems encountered when viewing websites on mobile phones and other portable devices and the challenges that web developers face.
Top 10 tips for Search Engine Optimisation
18 July 2008, 10:07
News > IT news
Ranking high on Google and other search engines is essential if you want lots of people to visit your web site, but achieving a high ranking can be difficult in a competitive field like healthcare. Here are our top 10 tips for improving your search ranking.
Older people and computer screen interaction
Do older people have different usability requirements? Research from the University of Reading suggests that by making a few changes to the layout and design of a web page, older people could 'point and click' quicker and more successfully.
Web pages are getting larger, but response times are falling
14 May 2008, 12:13
News > IT news
A recent study of web page sizes and response times shows that the average size of a web page has more than tripled in the last 5 years, from 94KB to 312KB. Likewise the number of files included in a web page has doubled. However despite this, response times have decreased by around 15% from 2.8 seconds to 2.33 seconds.
Microsoft rethinks version targeting
16 March 2008, 13:00
News > IT news
Unexpected version targeting u-turn by Microsoft pleases the web standards community (as well as Minervation).
Microsoft, IE8 and version targeting
24 January 2008, 13:27
News > IT news
Microsoft will introduce the concept of version targeting Internet Explorer 8 to stop web pages from breaking after browser updates.
Opening web links in new browser windows
Should links open up in new browser windows, especially if they point to external websites?
