Webforumz Newsletter - December 2007
Articles
Know what Web Design Qualities Just might get You Hired!
Is it important that a female client find a female designer? Does cost really matter? How do most people find "their" designer? I intend to share a glimpse into the minds of the prospective client.
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See your website through the eyes of a user
M ost web designers have heard of usability. Few designers, however, fully appreciate the difficulties faced by users as they attempt to understand a website. In this article I will give a simple example, discuss the connection with accessibility, and exhort you to perform some real-life user testing (with real-life users, no less!).
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Friends Don't Let Friends Buy PCs
In my circle of friends, I am well-known as a computer geek. As a geek, people are drawn to me with all their mundane computer questions. I get calls all the time from people asking me how to speed up their system or what to do when their hard drive crashes. I tell them I am really a web designer and not a computer technician. I even have a T-shirt that says, "NO, I will NOT fix your computer!" But, I still have six computers in my office now, each in various stages of disrepair.
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