CMS wrangling: navigation paths v site structure

28Apr08

Now I am out the other side of a university website redesign I have time to return to an article I read while in the midst of it: Menuing in Content Management: Implicit v Explicit
I found this article at a time when the project I was working on was experiencing menuing difficulties. Specifically, how to [...]

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Tags: cms, design, ia, navigation

Bad things happen

09Apr08

I was working in a CMS yesterday, using a browser, and I got this error message:

I am not sure what I think of it. At first I thought it was pretty silly, it seemed to be treating me like an idiot, talking down to me like some techies and Helpdeskers have in the past. It [...]

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Tags: cms, errors, flickr, ux

Usability presentation

08Apr08

Last week I gave a brief presentation on usability. It was meant to be a quick introduction to the concept of usability and to provide tips on how websites maintained in a devolved environment, where content authors are not always web professionals, can be improved through small usability improvements. I have been asked for some [...]

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Tags: accessibility, usability