Archive for 2007
Navigate by Touch
Have you heard about “Perceptive Pixel?” It is a company started by Jeff Han, a reasearch scientist at NYU’s Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences. Perceptive Pixel builds interfaces that you navigate by touch. I can’t wait to navigate the web like this! You have GOT to watch these videos….the technology is so Minority Report… Here’s a Promo video for the product, and another where Jeff demonstrates how to use it. Learn more about Jeff on Wikipedia or via an interview with him from Wired. [read more]
Web Analytics
This month’s meeting focused on web analytics – how people track visitors to their websites. We reviewed MIT’s Hit Counter and three commercial products (CrazyEgg.com and WebSideStory.com’s Hitbox Professional, and Google Analytics). Cecilia presented on how to use the MIT Counter Code to pull traffic data from the Data Warehouse (download her ppt slides). Sean reviewed the commercial products (email Sean for his presentation, it was too large to post here) [read more]
Position is everything
I just learned about a site called Position Is Everything that is a really great resource for learning how to fix common CSS bugs in most commonly used browsers. From the authors themselves: We’re Big John and Holly Bergevin, and together we built this site to explain some obtuse CSS bugs in modern browsers, provide demo examples of interesting CSS behaviors, and show how to “make it work” without using tables for layout purposes [read more]
Stencils for Omnigraffle and Visio
As a mac addict, I use Omnigraffle for building Information Architecture maps for my clients. use OmniGraffle Pro to develop site maps. Its a mac only product, but if you download the Pro version, you can save files as visio files for your pc users. You can download the trial version, and whenever you need to use it go back to their site to get a 24hr free license. Here’s the url to download the trial version, and here’s the url to get a 24hr license. While it doesn’t do everything I’d like it to do, it does get the job done. One of the cool things about it is that... [read more]
Closed Captioning for Flash
While Flash is..well, Flashy…it does pose a number of accessibiliy problems for us web publishers. If a user can’t use your Flash site’s interface because of some disability, then they aren’t going to be able to use your site. However our friends across the river are working on ways to make Flash a little better for the world… WGBH has created “CC for Flash” to simplify captioning for Adobe Flash technology. With this new (and free!) tool, developers are able to more easily add captions in Flash. Now, millions of users who are deaf or hard of hearing... [read more]
