A basic overview: “Adobe Photoshop is an incredible program. It’s the tool of choice for many different kinds of image creation. Preparing pictures for the web is just one of its many functions, and for that purpose, most of its hundreds of controls won’t help, but will in fact make your picture look worse. To make your picture look better, you need only a few of Photoshop’s capabilities.”

“The website interface to the nuclear arsenal of the USA is to be completely re-written from scratch following an assessment by usability guru Jakob Nielsen last week. …by far the worst crime committed by the designers is, says Nielsen, ‘the fact that it currently takes seven clicks to launch an all-out nuclear attack on an enemy nation. I mean, who the hell designed this thing anyway? An infinite number of monkeys? Have they never heard of the Three Click Rule? I honestly thought I’d put an end to this kind of idiocy when I published Designing Website Usability, but apparently I needn’t have bothered.’”

“The traditional course is run by a professor, an instructor, who organizes the course material in some logical method and gives lecture materials and assigns readings. This is an approach that we can call either ‘teacher-centric,’ or maybe, ‘content-centric.’ And it fails to take into account the way people learn. The first step in learner-centric is to understand how learning takes place. Much modern research in cognitive science shows that people learn by doing. So it is very important that people learn not by reading a book, and not by listening to a lecture, but by doing tasks that can engage the mind.”

Here are the presentations.

“So what exactly is XHTML 1.0 and what does it mean to the Web developer? I’ll start with the W3C’s description: XHTML 1.0 is a reformulation of HTML as an XML application. This means that if you’re authoring a document in XHTML 1.0, you are applying the rules and concepts inherent to XML to your Web markup. The dangling question naturally is: Can XHTML 1.0 be used to mark up my Web documents today? The answer is a resounding ‘yes!’ All you need to do is learn how to structure documents properly, choose the correct document type definition (DTD) for your needs, and learn a few new ways of managing your code development.”

“This is a website informing about dot dot dot (it is not an online magazine, but a printed one), a new graphic design magazine intended to fill a gap in current arts publishing. We are not interested in re-promoting established material or creating another ‘portfolio’ magazine. Instead, we hope to offer inventive critical journalism on a variety of topics related both directly and indirectly to graphic design culture.”

“email is very important to a lot of people and companies. However, very little usability research has been done on email, specifically email subject lines. This article is a summary of a research report written by WebWord on the topic and contains several results. The basic finding from the research is that effective email subject lines are very short, very meaningful, and personal.”

“Make no mistake — if you are running a substantive web site without a CMS, you will hit a wall where your eBusiness is no longer sustainable because you can’t update your site reliably or quickly enough. From that point, you will need to tear down almost your entire web infrastructure to put a CMS in its place.”