Jan
22
Skip To My Content
Filed Under Accessibility, Tools and Tutorials, Usability | 2 Comments
One simple feature can help users get into your site. Without this feature there is a barrier on every page. Some users will pass this barrier without noticing. For others, this barrier is a significant usability problem.
I’m talking about skiplinks.
Imagining Skiplinks
Look at the three links at the top right of [...]
Jan
21
A Few Blog Navigation Plugins
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What do the top search marketing blogs not have at the top of their sidebars? More often than not, they don’t list just exactly what I’m going to tell you about here: lists of recent posts, popular posts, recent comments, top commentators…
Of course there are exceptions, but the top spots are more likely than [...]
Jan
18
Blogrolling My Footer
Filed Under Blogging, Tools and Tutorials, Wordpress | 10 Comments
A couple posts ago I wrote about at-a-glance features that help me get a quick sense of what’s going on with a blog. For the next few posts I’m going to chip away at adding some of those features to my own blog. My first target will be some sidebar links devoted to [...]
Jan
18
Blogging Is The Devil, Or Not
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Yesterday I spent a couple hours getting to know StumbleUpon better. I had entirely too much fun sorting and clicking and searching. I added some interests to my profile, including blogging, of course.
How could this be? Blogging: 666.
I heard a lonely meow-yowl, looked over my shoulder and saw that my cat had [...]
Jan
16
Blog Love, at a Glance
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I often look at up to 100 blogs a day, many of which I have never seen before. That’s a lot of skimming. I don’t read all that I see. What makes the difference between reading and not reading, subscribing and not subscribing? It depends. Here are some of the [...]
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