Customer-Centered Web Design: More Than a Good Idea
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The World Wide Web is no longer a novelty. To many companies and organizations, the Web is a necessity, the foundation of their businesses. This week you'll discover the thinking behind customer-centered design and learn how to apply it to your projects. By Douglas K. van Duyne, James A. Landay, and Jason I. Hong. 0111
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You may not devote a great deal of thought to just how you go about digesting the content of web pages, but it can be of vital interest to the designer of a Web site. Eyetrack introduces visitors to both the means and results of measuring our most fundamental interaction with the Internet.
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The Web can help travelers create customized walking tours.
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DevShed ramps up another new series today with this new article giving developers a look at working with object-oriented programming through the eyes of design patterns. It's another excerpt from the George Schlossnagle book "Advanced PHP Programming".   This chapter provides an overview of the advanced OO features now available in PHP. Some of the examples developed here will be used throughout the rest of this book and will hopefully serve as a demonstration that certain problems really benefit from the OO approach.   The article lays down the foundation for the more complex information to come. It introduces object-oriented programming briefly, and talks about some of the handy features of it - like inheritance, static attributes and methods.
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Google is in the online ad-service business. Why does it lavish attention on software developers and open-source projects? Kicking offline Web apps into gear
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Occasionally, a Web Site can benefit from a facelift or a completely new design. In this article, we look at methods you should consider before you begin. By Rajesh Tavakari. 0409
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For years Internet merchants have poured millions of dollars into new technologies to make their sites easier to use. So why arenât online customers happier?
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Danny Sullivan reflects on how this year, web search will morph into consumer search, where major search companies offer a robust range of ways to search for information in specialized areas. He also reflects on other major developments that have emerged over the past year.
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How some companies neglect simple marketing rules in Search Engine Optimization.
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David Wheeler presents an introduction to the Bricolage content management system (CMS).
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CSS, Ajax and Web 2.0Ã¢ÂÂmore than mere buzz words, these are advancing technologies that bring vast improvement in the design and usability of web sites. What about search engines? Do these new technologies help search visibility or hurt it?
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A new website is being launched in an attempt to strengthen patient choice.
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In this new post to his blog, Richard Heyes talks about an example he's come across of PHP being used as backend behind a large marketing project:    I recently read an interesting example at Neil Shearing's internet marketing strategies blog of combining .NET desktop software with a PHP backend.   We all know PHP is often slated by "real programmers" as a scripting language only useful for kiddie's home pages, and its nice to see a serious marketer choosing PHP to power the backend to a serious piece of viral software with the potential to go load-mad.    Richard also points out some of his experience trying to market his software and which of his customers are the ones that would provide the most return (the ones looking for updates) and how he can gather their information more productively to further his project's goals.
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Blog: Company kicks off its Search Suggest feature, designed to save users time by offering search suggestions on which they can click.
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What's new in search? Found in the forums: Content on an E-commerce Site; Implications of CSS Layouts on SEO; First Year at SES NY; and more.
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Tips for improving the efficiency of job searches on the Web.
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Lukas Smith has posted his review of a book from Packt Publishing - "PHP Web 2.0 Mashup Projects: Practical PHP Mashups with Google Maps, Flickr, Amazon, YouTube, MSN Search, Yahoo!"   Duane from Pakt asked me if I would be interested in reviewing a few books for them in my blog. I picked "Mashup Projects" from the list of just released books, since I am interesting in the topic and I am actually going to give a presentation at the internal "PHP Day" we are doing at Optaros in November.   He points out the good (good writing style, well-chosen examples) and the bad (a log list of errors and oversights in the code). He also talks about the contents of the book - the different examples and the final more major project. Overall though, he sees it as a good book, one that would be a good introduction to mashups for PHP developers (if you look past the formatting issues).