In 1998, usability expert Rolf Molich (co-inventor with Jakob Nielsen of the heuristic evaluation method) gave nine teams three weeks to evaluate the webmail application www.hotmail.com. The experiment was part of his series of Comparative Usability Evaluations (CUEs), through which he began to identify a set of standards and best practices for usability tests. In each segment of the series, Molich asked several usability teams to evaluate a single design using the method of their choice.

We can use mysql_connect and mysql_select_db functions to create our connections. For closing the connections there is mysql_close function. These are basic functions of managing connections in PHP. There are also a lot of classes made by developers for free.

You might be familiar with the plugin jQuery Dock which allows developers to create a menu like Apple Dock. Today, you will create a similar menu with bubble effect by using CSS only. Although it doesn’t have as smooth of an effect as jQuery Dock, it’s helpful for those that just want to make a cool menu by using pure CSS. This tutorial includes two methods: CSS sprites (basic) and the image swapping (advanced).

In the process of developing a web site, there are many professional profile that work on it, one of this is the SEO profile (Search Engine Optimization). If you are working in a web agency, usually there’s a professional profile that works only on search engine optimization, giving you the freedom to work with image editing, (x)html and css. But if you are a freelance, then you should spare money and do this your self.

- Use Google Webmasters Tools
- Find the right keywords
- Google trends
- Keywords Tag

Javascript Tree view and sitemap are good tools to display the structure of your website. I have collected 10 plugins and tutorials that will save your time hunting for one.

Wont it be nice if all your theoretical data were presented as charts? Charts add style and spice up the graphical intereface. Style your content and layout with my handpicked collection of best JavaScript Charting plugins.

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When you have a website or a network, it’s helpful to be aware of any issues as soon as they occur. There are open source and freeware server/network monitoring tools that will supervise your infrastructure for any issues that may arise. These tools are meant to aid you in avoiding being taken offline and evaluating if your resource needs has outgrown your infrastructure.

In this article, we review our top 10 server/network monitoring tools. You will see a variety of server applications here so that you might find the tool (or tools) for your needs.

Die Sätze hat wohl jeder Kommunikations- und PR-Berater schon gehört. Man hat sich Mühe gegeben und dem Klienten ausführlich und anschaulich erklärt, warum man sich im Rahmen der Kommunikationsstrategie mit Social Media beschäftigen sollte. Man hat von Cluetrain gesprochen und über den Wandel in der Mediennutzung, man hat Beispiele gezeigt und herkömmliche Kommunikationsstrategien hinterfragt. Der Klient hat fleißig genickt und erstaunt geschaut und zwischendurch die Stirn in Falten geworfen. Dann kommt der Satz. Er beginnt fast ohne Ausnahme mit “Ja, aber…”.

One of the biggest advantages of online media over print is the ability to change, update, and enhance online media at virtually anytime, with virtually no negative side effects. In fact, if a website or web application does not continually offer its users an ever-evolving and growing experience, that site or application would soon become insecure, unusable, and out of date.

Have you beautified your code, validated your markup, and made your XHTML more semantic? Have you implemented basic SEO best practices, spell-checked content, and removed legacy code? Have you ensured JavaScript is unobtrusive, applied the principle of graceful degradation, and minimized the use of Flash? If you’ve done all those things (and possibly more), what comes next? Are there things you can do to improve your site’s overall effectiveness beyond those?

Google schlägt jetzt vor, der Server soll bei der Anfrage nach der Webseite auch gleich ungefragt die ganzen (ungeänderten) Dateien mitschicken. Das mag zwar im Benchmark die Latenz senken, aber es würde das Web-Verkehrsaufkommen im Internet mal eben verdoppeln. Beim ehemaligen Nachrichtenmagazin würde dann bei jedem Webseitenklicken das Spiegel-Logo mitübertragen. Wenn ihr mal sehen wollt, was das ausmacht, dann geht einmal zu spiegel.de, löscht einmal den Cache, startet den Browser neu, und geht nochmal zu spiegel.de Das dauert gleich fünfmal so lange!

Daher glaube ich, dass es Google hier um was anderes geht.