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Web Analytics Definitions or A Page View by Any Other Name Is Not Allowed!
The Web Analytics Associations has released an expanded set of 26 standard definitions for measuring web traffic and usage (PDF). This is a useful document for providing consensus definitions of common...
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Vista/IE7 Support Lagging in Content Management Systems
The good folks over at CMSWatch report that many content management systems still do not fully support authoring on Vista/IE7. As they point out in the post, this will be a growing problem for...
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Wiki Markup: What You See is Hard to Do
James Robertson has point out the obvious weakness of wiki tools: Wiki markup has no future: The lack of WYSIWYG editing is a big barrier to adoption within organisations, and on the wider web. There...
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Building Credibility Even When You Can't Say Anything
Great example from the Direct2Dell blog of listening to the online conversation about their future products, summarizing the discussion, and simply stating what they can share about it right now (not...
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6 million reasons to pay attention to accessibility
A nearly three year old lawsuit has resulted in a $6 million settlement over accessibility problems at Target.com. Target has settled a class action lawsuit with the National Federation of the Blind...
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Guides, Not Straight Jackets
I can’t tell you how many people I’ve heard bemoan the limitations of draconian style and design guides for their corporate web site. It is a very common complaint and always happens to a certain...
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Designing for Mobile Devices with Web Standards
Nice article on A List Apart this month on using CSS style sheets for presenting web-based content on mobile devices: Return of the Mobile Style Sheet. It is a rather technical piece but if you are...
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R is for Open Source Statistical Analysis Programming Language
I read in the New York Times today about an open source programming language and environment for conducting statistical analysis. R, the Software, Finds Fans in Data Analysts: R is also the name of a...
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NYT API – FTW!
I saw via Twitter last week (sorry, can’t remember who posted it!) this post about the New York Times Newswire API. In essence, the Times has published an interface with which you can access their...
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The IE6 Decision
More and more website publishers are deciding to drop support for Internet Explorer 6. This browser has notoriously poor, incomplete, and outright missing support for modern standards in web design and...
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