Posts Tagged ‘user experience’

Nice article on UX covering the customer experience from advertising to engagement and retention.

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WordPress Development posted their plans for 3.2 version: MySQL 5 & PHP 5.2 required, no IE6 support for Admin and new writing interface.

• Mark Jaquith on WP 3.1 Post Formats
• Best web design resources of August 2011
• JigoShop vs WooCommerce: forking E-commerce
• Slides from WordCamp San Francisco 2011
• WordPress 3.2 now available!

Tags: open source, user experience

This video by Ryan Carson is back from 2009 but still relevant to learn how to perform A/B  Testing using WordPress and Google Optimizer.

• Mark Jaquith on WP 3.1 Post Formats
• HTML/CSS Reset De-Compactor
• Firefox Aurora introduces native developer tools
• Color theme for Aptana 3
• Enter to win 50GB Dropbox Pro for life

Tags: development, user experience

Now that 2010 is over, it’s nice to look back and see how many things you’ve learned on the last year. In order to start stretching those muscles for 2011, here’s a review of the most interesting jQuery tutorials featured in ilovecolors during 2010.

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Tags: javascript, plugin, tutorials, usability, user experience

Less Framework 3 tackles responsive design bundling 4 layouts of 3, 5, 8 and 13 columns applied using media queries.

• Reveal extra form fields using a select box with jQuery
• Best web design resources of August 2011
• Masonry CSS3: dynamic grid layout
• Best jQuery Tutorials in ILC in 2010
• Preserving radio button checked state during drag and drop with jQuery

Tags: css3, javascript, user experience

Sometimes we need to include a feedback form but without making it too obtrusive to the user so we only want to add options when he is actually using it. In this tutorial we’re going to learn how to reveal hidden fields in a form when an option in a select combo box is selected using jQuery, the JavaScript library.
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Tags: css3, javascript, tutorials, user experience

Check the cool site for Ben the Bodyguard, an iPhone app to protect your data coming up in January 2011.

• 20 single page websites for products
• How to detect iPhone browser natively in WordPress
• Using WordPress to build iPhone and Facebook apps
• Watercolor icons in use
• WordPress for iPhone

Tags: illustration, iphone, mobile, user experience

Just in time for thanksgiving, WordPress makes version 3.1 available for download. The new version has some awesome enhancements such as Post Formats, a new dialog for link creation, Admin Bar, faster password reset, multi-taxonomy queries in the core and index pages for custom post types.

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Tags: post formats, seo, usability, user experience, wordpress themes

Post Formats are (…) a taxonomy convention with a UI wrapper. So if you have “Asides” on one theme, you can transport them to another theme. If people create their own formats, their portability will be zero (…)

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Tags: development, open source, post formats, user experience, web application, wordpress themes

A good technique to help minimize bounce rates in a website is to offer content related to the one that is currently being consumed by the user. We’re going to learn here how to achieve this in WordPress using custom taxonomies, but you can use post tags or categories with the same code.
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Tags: custom taxonomies, user experience, wordpress themes