Nov 27, 2011
The article I read was about a research conducted using the University of Colorado Library’s website to compare 3 different click analytic tools: Google Analytics’ In-Page Analytics, ClickHeat, and Crazy Egg. Over a span of 6 months, they used the tools to monitor how the visitors were interacting with the website through clicks. What they [...]
Nov 20, 2011
This article is about the W3C’s first draft release for two standards aimed to protect online privacy by giving users the ability to opt in or out of online tracking. These standards are meant to “prevent surprises, to foster trust on the web” and also “to find a balance between the privacy of web users [...]
Nov 14, 2011
In the article titled “Which ASP.NET is Better?”, the older ASP.NET Web Form is compared to the newer ASP.NET MVC framework. Although the new framework offers many modern advantages, the author advocates that moving to ASP.NET MVC may not be worth it for web developers because, at the core level, the two are nearly identical. [...]
Nov 7, 2011
This article is about a research study made in Taiwan that compared a high convenience vs. a low convenience e-commerce website. To measure their study, the researchers used the Internet Commerce Evaluation Scale (ICES), which covered 12 key areas: visitor greeting, catalog, shopping cart, checkout, security, coherence and organization, consistency and standardization, efficiency, navigation, style, [...]
Oct 30, 2011
The article I read basically talks about the benefits of using scripting languages over programming languages for creating an application. In particular, the author feels that JavaScript is a powerful tool that has not been utilized to its full potential. It is explained that JavaScript is perceived as more of a toy than a serious [...]
Oct 23, 2011
I wanted to share something cool I found while looking for an article to write about. The article highlights 5 useful tips for using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) to those who are new to the subject (like me). I’m just going to point out 3 that I thought were good. The article was written by [...]
Oct 16, 2011
In the article titled, “Making Web Content Accessible for the Deaf Via Sign Language”, the German author argues that the web is prejudice against deaf people and gives a statistic that says 0.1 to 0.2 percent of any given population is deaf. It is explained that while it is true that information on the web [...]
Oct 9, 2011
As a follow-up to last week’s lecture on user experience, I found an interesting article that shows a study about the effects of interactivity and humor in getting visitors to buy from an E-commerce business. The author conducted an experiment by showing participants various websites that contained interactive vs. non-interactive and humor vs. non-humor designs. [...]
Oct 2, 2011
The article titled “Healthcare 2.0″ discusses how Web 2.0 has been integrated into our healthcare system. One example is where medical videos are shared by physicians on websites like askdrwiki.com. Blogs are also used by healthcare professionals in education by sharing some real life cases. This sounds like it would be breaking some privacy act, [...]
Oct 2, 2011
What is a Mashup? To those who are savvy to the music industry, a mashup typically refers to the joining of two or more popular vocal or instrumental tracks to create a unique song. For an application developer, however, it’s a bunch of applications that get remixed, rather than Michael Jackson and Britney Spears songs. The [...]
