JavaScript Diaries / Web Usability - WebReference Update
WebReference Update: November 28, 2005
New this week on WebReference.com and the Web:
1. FEATURE: The JavaScript Diaries: Part 112. FEATURE: Excerpt: Don't Make Me Think, Second Edition: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability
3.OTHER VOICES:
4. NET NEWS:
- Microsoft Enhances Hosting Platform
- Technology Company Offers New System of Domain Names
- "Sober X" Worm, with CIA and FBI Links, Called Worst of Year
1. FEATURE: The JavaScript Diaries: Part 11
In our continuing JavaScript saga, this installment takes a look at
JavaScript arrays, which can be very useful in creating different
types of scripts. This study will span several installments due to
its complexity.
[Read the entire article ]
2. FEATURE: Excerpt: Don't Make Me Think, Second Edition: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability
In today's world of Web design the sites that offer the best, easiest,
most intuitive experience are the ones people visit again and again.
Join usability guru Steve Krug who distills his years of experience
into a practical primer on the do's and don'ts of good Web design.
[Read the entire article ]
3.OTHER VOICES
- Human-Centered Intranet Design
Developers need to have a deeper understanding that regardless of what technology allows them to do, the end product must conform to the natural way in which humans work.
Intranet Journal, November 28, 2005, - A Well-Balanced Linking Strategy
If you want authoritative links to come to your site, one of the best tactics remains providing access to great content worthy of encouraging natural linking to your site. Some of these links will be logical and sequential; others will be completely subjective. But the back links will all add up to a well-balanced linking strategy that delivers more relevant search traffic to your site.
ClickZ, November 23, 2005, - Sample Code: ElseIf ASP.NET
No it's not a typo. VB.NET's "ElseIf" really is different from "Else If" and this difference can be very useful. It starts out like any other "If Then," but there's no space between the "Else" and the next "If."
ASP 101,
4. NET NEWS
- Microsoft Enhances Hosting Platform
Microsoft is pushing mobility and security additions on its updated hosted messaging and collaboration suite, launched Monday.
internetnews.com, November 28, 2005 - Technology Company Offers New System of Domain Names
A Dutch technology company has breathed life into a project to rid the Internet of suffixes such as .com, and instead offer single names which can be countries, company names or fantasy words. Such a system, which enables countries, individuals and firms to have a Web address which consists of a single name, offers flexibility and is language and character independent.
Reuters, November 25, 2005 - "Sober X" Worm, with CIA and FBI Links, Called Worst of Year; %summary%=It's being called the worst computer worm of the year -- a fast-
spreading Internet threat that looks like an official e-mail from the
CIA or FBI but can leave your computer wide open to intruders. The
bogus e-mail claims the government has discovered you visiting
"illegal" Web sites and asks you to open an attachment to answer some
official questions.; %url%=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/23/AR2005112302147.html; %sourcedate%=Washington Post, November 24, 2005
A Dutch technology company has breathed life into a project to rid the Internet of suffixes such as .com, and instead offer single names which can be countries, company names or fantasy words. Such a system, which enables countries, individuals and firms to have a Web address which consists of a single name, offers flexibility and is language and character independent.
Reuters, November 25, 2005
That's it for this Monday. I'll have more for you next time.
Lee Underwood
Newsletter Editor, WebReference.com
lunderwood(at)jupitermedia.com
Created: November 28, 2005
URL: http://www.webreference.com/new/051128.html
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