Archive for the ‘ The Web ’ Category

+1 for Left Sidebars and Modules

Does usability testing confirm the effectiveness of the Divine Proportion and Rule of Thirds in web design? According to recent Neilsen web user testing, website visitors fixate on the portion of a web page that is indented about 200 px to 500 px from the left side of the screen. In fact, 69% of viewing time is spent looking at the left half of the page! This has important implications for marketers[ READ MORE ]

Thesis Tutorial: Switching from a theme that uses a custom field for post images

Did you just switch to Thesis theme and now you're having problems seeing thumbnail images on your teasers or other blog features? There could be a problem with your urls (if you also relocated your blog to a new domain or directory when you switched to the Thesis theme), or you might have had an old theme that stored your post image urls in a custom field, which Thesis knows nothing about (because Thesis uses its own, different snazzy custom fields). This tutorial will show you how to fix that latter problem, no matter what level of skill you have with mysql database administration[ READ MORE ]

Broken Context

Sexual harassment in virtual world work environments. Hit a girl with dicks while she's playing an online game, that's griefing. Hit a business woman with dicks while she's working an event in a virtual world... there are other words for that, perhaps depending on who you ask[ READ MORE ]

Resisting the Upsell

I just set up my first WordPress hosted blog, and I’m already fighting the urge to buy the custom CSS upgrade. I’ll probably just save some money and just learn to love one of the stock themes. I wonder how many WordPress hosted users spent almost $30 USD just to change their link color[ READ MORE ]

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