Archive for 2007

Color Contrast Analysis

We always check web designs for accessible components before launching them, and here’s a new tool that can help you do the same. Its called the Contrast Analyser, from the Paciello Group, and in their own words: It is primarily a tool for checking foreground & background colour combinations to determine if they provide good colour visibility. It also contains functionality to create simulations of certain visual conditions such as colour blindness. Thanks to Sean Brown (again!) for this great post idea!  [read more]

Create, Edit and Share your sitemaps online

WriteMaps is a handy tool for collaborative site mapping, I might try this on my next web project. Your teammates can log in and edit notes on the pages, or create additional pages to your tree structure. Oh yeah, its FREE…I’m such a sucker for that. Thanks to Sean Brown of IS&T’s DCAD team for this post idea!  [read more]

Higher-ed Web Design

Edustyle is a great site and fun to peruse. From the site’s “about” page: eduStyle is a higher-ed web design gallery powered by higher-ed web professionals. Users submit sites they like (or don’t like … it doesn’t matter) and other users votes, tag, and comment on them. Your profile collects all this sites that you vote or comment on so that you can easily find them again. Once a month two sites are selected as Noteworthy based on user votes and feedback. Thanks to Susan Curran of MIT’s Office of External Communications for this post idea!  [read more]

Heat maps

Clickheat won’t keep you warm at night, but it will instantly tell you where people are clicking to the most on your site. Thanks to Michael Dutton from MIT’s Usability Lab for this post idea!  [read more]

MIT’s TechTV…the new youtube

Even though it’s still in Beta and has a few bugs to work out, MIT’s TechTV is a great place to store your videos content online. Anyone with an MIT email account can sign up and post their own videos there for free. You can create your own playlists, create “collections” of your videos, and generate RSS feeds. And guess what, you can IM with other techtv-ers for help if you have questions. The content is moderated by MIT, so its safe for your kids to surf. You don’t have to worry about having any lewd or inappropriate videos popping up like there are on other... [read more]