5th
January
2001
“Organizine is a browser-based tool to create, manage, and publish documents on the web. Organizine was designed to help automate and eliminate much of the drudgery in keeping a frequently updated web site, whether it be a journal, ‘zine, or whatever else your little heart desires. With Organizine you can quickly and easily separate your content (you know, the copy, all those lovely words you write) from the presentation (you know, the way it’s presented in HTML.) This way, it’s super easy to write something new, and have it show up all pretty-like on your website just a few microseconds later.” Read more about it on trenchant.org. Note: Organizine, launched 31 Dec 2000 and linked here 5 Jan 2001, has shut down…
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5th
January
2001
“Prof. Tufte has long been one of our store’s favorite authors, a writer whose intellect and books receive unanimous raves from those familiar with them. In one of the more unusual honors given him, The Utne Reader featured Tufte in a 1995 article ‘100 Visionaries Who Could Change Your Life,’ listing him with leading figures from politics, the media, and other walks of life. I’ve twice had the privilege of interviewing Tufte. The first time was in 1994, over sushi and sake, after a talk at our San Jose store in which he passed around his personal copy of an original Galileo manuscript. The second time was in January 1997, when his long-awaited third book came out (reviewed in this issue). I’ve meshed both interviews together for smoother ‘flow.’”
posted in Information design | Permalink |
5th
January
2001
“This online rhetoric, provided by Dr. Gideon Burton of Brigham Young University, is a guide to the terms of classical and renaissance rhetoric. Sometimes it is difficult to see the forest (the big picture) of rhetoric because of the trees (the hundreds of Greek and Latin terms naming figures of speech, etc.) within rhetoric. This site is intended to help beginners, as well as experts, make sense of rhetoric, both on the small scale (definitions and examples of specific terms) and on the large scale (the purposes of rhetoric, the patterns into which it has fallen historically as it has been taught and practiced for 2000+ years).”
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5th
January
2001
“I am a big fan of usability testing as a way to help make web sites easier to use because it gets straight to the point of looking at what real people actually do with your carefully crafted web site. Unfortunately, I think that there is a reluctance with many people to give usability testing a whirl…”
posted in Usability | Permalink |
5th
January
2001
“The purpose of this site is to share some of the information I’ve acquired on website design. The emphasis is on overall design and usability, as opposed to the mechanics of creating a website.”
posted in Web design | Permalink |
