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6月3日
Many of my web application prototypes goes with more whitespace based, findability oriented liquid CSS layouts. But there's no way that I can ignore branding graphics & supportive graphics in the layout which adds more visual liveliness. Challenge is not to make the layout heavy to eye balls as well as to browsers. So question lingers now...
Which is the best graphic image format for web ?
I would say, .png format. An Open, Extensible Lossless Compression image format. Specially rounded corners or thin graphic lines are fad in current design trend. To fasten browser rendering without using heavy graphical images: PNG has an edge. But Internet Explorer have issues with PNGs as background graphics and tends to render them darker than they should be. This is because internal comments and data that is not necessary, including gamma information. Removing the gamma data ends up solving this problem by making .PNG file lighter & browser friendly.
Since I've moved most of graphical elements to portable network graphics format, Fireworks does the neat job of removing redundant or unnecessary data in it, but individually. I was looking out for something which could batch render this kind of work. I found Benjamin's PNGGauntlet -a user friendly .net based tool which does the job of compressing my PNG's neatly. Best of all is its a freeware !
Many PNG files output by popular graphics software packages like Photoshop or even Fireworks are not as small as they could be - PNGGauntlet squeezes the last bit of size out of them. PNGGauntlet also supports a brute-force option that will try different PNGOut settings in order to create the smallest file. >> Benjamin's PNGGauntlet There're few freewares to do this task : pngcrus
Last year I could afford Sony DSLR, Creative PMP & HP notebook. They were badly on my geeky intentions radar. Though I'm not a junky nerd who buys anything & everything, I'm content that I could buy gadgets I dream of.
But if you really evaluate; the behavior of buying expensive gizmos or geeky stuff is nothing but 'madness of owning'. I'm sure till we buy it, it's like mad fever which don't go away from head. The moment we own it, it feels like oh just for this I tried, researched and paid for ?.
A popular motivational speaker was entertaining his audience.
He Said: "The best years of my life were spent in the arms of a woman who wasn't my wife!"
The audience was in silence and shock.
The speaker added: "And that woman was my mother!"
Laughter and applause.
A week later, a top IT manager trained by the motivational speaker tried to crack this very effective joke at home. He was a bit foggy after a drink.
He said loudly, "The greatest years of my life were spent in the arms of a woman who was not my wife!"
The wife went wild with shock and rage.
Standing there for 20 seconds trying to recall the second half of the joke, the manager finally blurted out "... and I can't remember who she was!"
Moral of the story:
Don't copy if you can't paste!
First round of Google approach to browser: chrome's dust is settling down with the simple feedback across netizen - "its a simple, fast browser, but I think twice to switch over from existing Firefox"
One major concern sounded from all quarters was questions about Google's policies for collecting usage data. I don't understand how schematically Google uses users search data but the concerns about data-collection potential is very evident.
If you're concerned about Google collecting your search data via Chrome, its high time that you download Chrome as Iron Browser. It's purified version of Chrome stripping all possibility of Google collecting users data. A German firm SRWare stripped of all the user ID information transmitting feature of Chrome and presented as Iron.
Iron is essentially the Chrome source code modified to suit user with privacy concern which has :
- No unique user-ID
- No user-specific information is sent to Google
- No alternative error messages
- Crash information is not sent to Google
- No Google updater
One smart Software engineer and his Project Manager were traveling towards Pune in a train.
Just Opposite to their seat, a beautiful girl was sitting along with her grand ma. With in some time, Eye-Eye interactions started between Our Software engineer & that girl. After some minutes, train started moving in to a tunnel and it was very dark.
Suddenly, every body heard a Kiss sound followed by a sound of slapping.Every body remained silent, when the train came out of the tunnel.
Grand ma thought that," The Guy is a rogue; how dare he? He has kissed my grand daughter! But my Grand daughter is genuine; she immediately slapped that guy."
PM thought that," I can't believe that this guy has kissed that girl! But it is unfair that she slapped me by mistake"
That girl thought that," I feel happy, when that guy kissed me, but I feel sorry that my grand ma has slapped him".
Finally, do u know what our clever Software engineer thought?
"This one minute in my life is wonderful, it hardly comes...because, at a time I have kissed a girl and also I have slapped my PM."
via email | Vanitha
Find yourself as a poster of some phirang city as a fan of nice looking chicks kissing you, easy way to publish your life size photo on times square, have your photos painted on the streets, why don't you see your photo hanging in some foreign museum..
Try this:
Photo-funia.com
1. Motivate
Design your site to meet specific user needs and goals. Use motivators to draw different user "personae" into specific parts of your site.
2. User task flow
Who are your users? What are their tasks and online environment? For a site to be usable, page flow must match workflow.
3. Architecture – it's 80% of usability
Build an efficient navigational structure. Remember – if they can't find it in 3 clicks, they're gone.
4. Affordance means obvious
Make controls understandable. Avoid confusion between emblems, banners, and buttons.
5. Replicate
Why reinvent the wheel? Use ergonomically designed templates for the most common 8-12 pages.
6. Usability test along the way
Test early in design using low-fidelity prototypes. Don't wait until the end when it's too late.Know the technology limitations Identify and optimize for target browsers and user hardware. Test HTML, JavaScript, etc. for compatibility.
7. Know the technology limitations
Identify and optimize for target browsers and user hardware.Test HTML, JavaScript, etc for compatibility.
8. Know user tolerances
Users are impatient. Design for a 2-10 second maximum download. Reuse header graphics so they can load from cache. Avoid excessive scrolling.
9. Multimedia – be discriminating
Good animation attracts attention to specific information, then stops. Too much movement distracts, slowing reading and comprehension.
10. Use a stats package
Monitor traffic through your site. Which pages pique user interest? Which pages make users leave? Adjust your site accordingly.
via | humanfactors
I am sure you guys are rocking with new born Google chrome. This is my first post out of Google Chrome - The google's approach to browser . you know what, even while composing this I was missing - 'built in dictionary feature of Firefox'.
I've installed it on my vista and first look impressions are awesome. It's very clean and easy to use. Though it's not revolutionary as official blog claims it: it's a blend of google innovation and components from Apple's WebKit and Mozilla's Firefox.
Noticeably, quite fast on google related services ! But what's interesting to note about this browser is :
Under the hood, we were able to build the foundation of a browser that runs today's complex web applications much better. By keeping each tab in an isolated "sandbox", we were able to prevent one tab from crashing another and provide improved protection from rogue sites. We improved speed and responsiveness across the board. We also built a more powerful Javascript engine, V8, to power the next generation of web applications that aren't even possible in today's browsers.
The often crash reports in Internet explorer and Mozilla Firefox can be weeded out with this new avatar of browser !
It's the unfortunate fate of google, that people have started to see anything out of google garage with a monopolistic suspicion. Web is already divided over 'Does Google Have Rights to Everything You Send Through Chrome?" and google's own statement "wouldn't it be great, then to start from scratch and design something based on the needs of the today's web applications and today's users ?" Tech experts already started figuring out the negatives of Chrome.
I am hooked to web to weigh the pro's and cons in shifting to chrome from 'beloved' Firefox. Surprisingly I am still using Firefox V2.0, Reason ? My favorite extension 'Tab mix plus' is not officially released to FF 3.0. I feel kind of handicapped without that extension :D
This shows the capacity and capability of google in pushing technology and innovation to the limit. And it's simple: If you can't play the game, change the rules of it !
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