Design, Usability, User Experience
Tumblr has an easily accessible API which outputs XML, JSON and JSONP. A bit of searching didn’t drum up a cut-and-paste solution, but I was able to roll my own in a few minutes. I’m documenting it here, so perhaps Google will lead the next person who needs this to my solution. Just post the appropriate parts of this script into various parts of your site, and it should just work. See it in action on my site.
"84% of all comments are spam"
I’ve been creating my fair share of websites that use wordpress as a cms. A couple of the sites i’ve done were hosted on GoDaddy. I am no stranger to a WP installation but it seems that every time I run a WP site on godaddy it becomes unbearably slow. I’ve read a couple of post on the issue on wordpress.org and it seems the issue is a consistent one, with godaddy faulting wordpress for the lagging response times. GoDaddy chimed in and mentioned something about using cacheing plugins. Another commentor mentioned disabling Fast CGI. In any case, it seem the overall consensus is simply not to use godaddy.
(Source: Wikipedia)
"I think we can see a change maybe being more of a usefulness relevance ranking. I think there is a tendency now for a lot of not very useful results to be dredged up that happen to be very popular, like Wikipedia and various blogs. They’re not going to be very useful or substantial to people who are trying to solve problems. So I think that with counting links and all of that, there may be a change and we may go into a more behavioral judgment as to which sites actually solve people’s problems, and they will tend to be more highly ranked."
Jakob Nielsen on Search Engine Land
On Notice is a collection of notes and screen shots that I’m gathering as I explore the ways designers are enhancing the user experience through usability and design. The purpose of this blog is simple. To point out the use of good usability on the web as it relates to design.
