Although a lot of attention is focussed on grabbing eyeballs through search engine optimisation and marketing, often too little consideration is given to what those eyeballs do when they arrive. I’ve referred a few times before to “web usability guru” Jakob Nielsen. Like many, and unlike himself, I don’t believe he’s God: some of his […]
Web usability guru, Jakob Nielsen, reports in his weekly Alertbox for 20 August 2007 on banner blindness: The most prominent result from the new eyetracking studies is not actually new. We simply confirmed for the umpteenth time that banner blindness is real. Users almost never look at anything that looks like an advertisement, whether or […]
Web usability guru Jakob Nielsen posits in his latest monthly Alertbox article that what children need is not instruction on how to use Microsoft products (or Google apps or any other proprietary applications); just sit them in front of these and most will grasp the skills themselves far quicker than we can teach them – […]
Blog enthusiasts will be chuffed to learn that the blogosphere represents more than half of all websites. So bloggers rule! Or do they? Netcraft, in its November 2006 web survey reports that there are now over 101 million websites (hostnames), commenting that “Blogs and small business web sites have driven the explosive growth this year, […]
A Page on the Web, published in the Solicitors Journal, March 2001 Government portals Last month’s review of UK legal portals would not be complete without covering government sites. While designed for the citizen rather than the lawyer, government portals provide access to so much information vital to lawyering that they are an essential legal […]
A Page on the Web, published in the Solicitors Journal, January 2000 Around 800 law firms in England and Wales now have websites and with probably about the same number planning to go online in the next year or so, website design is an increasingly important consideration in the marketing and delivery of your firm’s […]
