31st
January
2000
“Metababy is an experiment in collaboration, a Web site created by its visitors. You’re welcome to post anything you want on Metababy, and anybody else is free to change it. To participate, just navigate to a URL on the site and click the ‘Edit’ button in the lower, right-hand corner. If the page already exists, you can change it. If the page doesn’t exist — if you get a 404 — you can create it.”
posted in Content management | Permalink |
31st
January
2000
“Metababy is an experiment in collaboration, a Web site created by its visitors. You’re welcome to post anything you want on Metababy, and anybody else is free to change it. To participate, just navigate to a URL on the site and click the ‘Edit’ button in the lower, right-hand corner. If the page already exists, you can change it. If the page doesn’t exist — if you get a 404 — you can create it.”
posted in Et cetera | Permalink |
31st
January
2000
“From 1994 to 1996 I presented a series of essays on the critical state of the Internet, its construction and probable prospects for the future. Topics covered include the history of the pre-Web matrix and the likely regulatory environment future tech might face.”
posted in Internet | Permalink |
31st
January
2000
“It has been a long-held notion that the use of open space or ‘whitespace’ adds not only to the attractiveness of the design of a written publication, but adds to the functionality as well. For example, it has been stated that whitespace plays the crucial role of ‘directing the viewer’s attention to the regions where important information is provided and allowing the global structure of the composition to assume a meaningful configuration’ …However, it has been asserted by Web usability researcher Jared Spool that these assumptions should not apply to Web design.”
posted in Web design | Permalink |
31st
January
2000
“Today’s web site is a combination of a publication, a software application, and navigation system. Building such a complex product requires both verbal and visual analysis. Planning diagrams are an essential tool in the analysis process, helping a team understand the content and relationships that the design of a web site must represent. Even with the best design, a web site is largely invisible and often difficult to grasp. As the web has grown as a publishing media, designers have struggled to find the equivalent of an index or table of contents for a web site. A web site is not a book, a magazine, a virtual city or a file system. We will explore the kinds of diagrams that can visually represent a web site.”
posted in Web development | Permalink |
