Right now most of it is no real breadcrumbs, arbitrary categories, navigation is mostly menu pages with no way to go up or down the hierarchies, I could go on and on.
Most of usability is common sense backed up by research. Designing Web Usability by Jakob Nielsen, Usability for the Web: Designing Web Sites that Work by Brinck, Gergle and Wood, and Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability by Steve Krug are the three books I strongly recommend in this area. If coders would have a better understanding of good usability and IA I figure that our jobs would be 10 times easier. larry At 10:44 AM 9/9/2003, you wrote: > From what I understand we, diplomatic security, are using states header for >now while we come up with our that has the same feel. We have already >looked at different ways we can do things like have cross domain >breadcrumbs. What kinds of navigation problems are you running into most >commonly. > >I will be honest. I am good, real good, with code and architecture and db >design. That's my strength. Usability, design, color schemes, branding, >accessibility, these are really my weaknesses. > >Tim > > >-----Original Message----- >From: Larry C. Lyons [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2003 10:41 AM >To: CF-Community >Subject: IA and Usability. Was New Site, Reviews? > > >Lately it seems that most of the work I've been doing has been more >oriented to information architechure/design and usability. For instance >right now I'm doing a reworking of a site that's just a nightmare in terms >of navigation and accessibility. Simply nuts. I figure that its going to >take me about twice as long to rework the navigation than if I started from >scratch and did it right the first time. > >There are times I'd just love to slap the idiots who originally designed >this crap. It may not correct things but it would make me feel a lot better >right now. > >larry > >At 10:28 AM 9/9/2003, you wrote: > >I agree with the roll over, but it's their header :( > > > >However the 508 stuff does need to be added. > > > >Timothy Heald > >Information Systems Manager > >Overseas Security Advisory Council > >U.S. Department of State > >571.345.2235 > > > > > >-----Original Message----- > >From: Larry C. Lyons [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2003 10:20 AM > >To: CF-Community > >Subject: Re: New Site, Reviews? > > > > > >Looks good in Mozilla, 1024x 768. I'll check it tonight on the iBook with > >Safari and the other Mac browsers. One comment, and this is just a personal > >preference, but on your links graphics make them a rollover, so the users > >gets more feedback. Also I take it that its just an initial take on the > >site, but you may want to implement accessibility now rather than > >retroactively. Since its probably going to be a government site, you do > >have to implement it. > > > >larry > > > >At 09:52 AM 9/9/2003, you wrote: > > >Tim, I really like the look and feel! Looks very sharp :) > > > > > >The only thing I'd change is on the red nav bar, there seems to be a > > >lot of leading space before the word home. I know it's because of a > > >fluid table. I'm on IE 6 1024X768. Maybe you could make the search box's > > >right space (the tan area) instead of the left red space. Does that make > > >sense? > > > > > >I think you did a great job! > > > > > > > > >Candace K. Cottrell, Web Developer > > >The Children's Medical Center > > >One Children's Plaza > > >Dayton, OH 45404 > > >937-641-4293 > > >http://www.childrensdayton.org > > > > > > > > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 9/9/2003 9:14:11 AM >>> > > >Hey kids, > > > > > >Got a beta site/cms set up last night. Can't let you guys into the > > >admin, > > >but I figured I would solicit some opinions about the front end. > > > > > >The site is http://rome.ds-osac.org. Basically a test of the CMS I > > >wrote > > >following an application service provider model, so we can now just > > >put > > >these out, pretty much at will. > > > > > >Also I only have IE so if you guys run into anything with browsers > > >please > > >let me know. > > > > > >Tim > > > > > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=t:5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5 This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting. http://www.cfhosting.com
