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... site The actual Average User is kept in a hermetically sealed vault at the International Bureau of Standards in Geneva We’ll get around to talking about the best way to think about the “average ... e t h i n k ! The fact is, your site may not have been that easy to find in the first place and visitors may not know of an alternative The prospect of starting over isn t always that attractive ... self-explanatory On a self-explanatory page, it takes a little thought to “get it”—but only a little The appearance of things, their well-chosen names, the layout of the page, and the small amounts...

Ngày tải lên: 27/06/2014, 00:20

... software and hardware products described in it Trademarks Throughout this book, trademarks are used Rather than put a trademark symbol in every occurrence of a trademarked name, we state that we are ... most satisfying thing has been people saying that it helped them get their job done better But what have you done for us lately? It only took about a year after the book appeared for people to ... work, but it was an important part of the “practices what it preaches” business If I was going to add any new material, I’d have to throw some of the existing stuff overboard, and I thought it all...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 10:22

... not the site The actual Average User is kept in a hermetically sealed vault at the International Bureau of Standards in Geneva We’ll get around to talking about the best way to think about the ... not have been that easy to find in the first place and visitors may not know of an alternative The prospect of starting over isn t always that attractive And there’s also the “I’ve waited ten ... settle for self-explanatory On a self-explanatory page, it takes a little thought to “get it”—but only a little The appearance of things, their well-chosen names, the layout of the page, and the...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 10:22

... instance, that a phrase in very large type is usually a headline that summarizes the story underneath it, and that text underneath a picture is either a caption that tells me what it’s a picture of, ... prominent position on the page The headline spanning these three columns makes it obvious that they’re all part of the same story The size of this headline makes it clear at a glance that this is the ... contents with no real content of their own, there’s a temptation to fill them with happy talk Unfortunately, the effect is as if a book publisher felt obligated to add a paragraph to the table...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 10:22

... important can it be? It’s not primary It’s not even secondary.) And there’s a tendency to think that by the time people get that far into the site, they’ll understand how it works And then there’s ... top-to-bottom navigation from the beginning, it’s very hard to graft it on later and come up with something consistent The moral? It’s vital to have sample pages that show the navigation for all the ... framing the content that is unique to this page (After all, that’s what it’s naming—not the navigation or the ads, which are just the infrastructure.) See “You are here” on page 74 [ 72 ] Don t...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 10:22

... even think about the page layout All I did was tighten up the top a little and try to make the content space easier to spot by adding a background to the column on the left At the same time, I made ... can retrace their steps Eventually the tale devolves into attempted cannibalism, grand larceny, and immolation, but basically it’s a story about how unpleasant it is to be lost 11 Actually, the ... > Don t use them instead of a page name There have been a lot of attempts to make the last item in the Breadcrumbs list double duty, eliminating the need for a separate page name Some sites have...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 10:22

... sites, it’s not at all unusual to have people say, “Oh, is that what it is? I’d use that all the time, but it wasn t clear what it was.” Licensed by Douglas Bolin 1969813 That’s what our advertising ... entirely > Enterprise appears out of nowhere, and > Even the names that are the same aren t in the same order As a result, it’s hard to recognize that the two navigation systems are related at ... usually needs some empty space next to it for the tagline, which may not appear on every page But it’s also important not to make any changes you don t have to The Home page navigation and the...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 11:20

... later Part of the conventional wisdom about Web development is that it’s very easy to go in and make changes The truth is, it turns out that it’s not that easy to make changes to a site once it’s ... product that’s right for you") so that it now stands a chance of being read But it’s still buried at the bottom of what still looks like the featured products section And they moved the Utility ... And the worst thing about the myth of the Average User is that it reinforces the idea that good Web design is largely a matter of figuring out what people like It’s an attractive notion: either...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 11:20

... “demonstrating return on There are a number of screen recorders available, but I’m partial to Camtasia, made by TechSmith, the same company that makes the screen capture program SnagIt (http://www.techsmith.com) ... just as likely that the next user will say that she hates this shade of orange and that the drawing is too simplistic Don t get too excited by individual reactions to site aesthetics I don t know ... always use a screen recorder during user tests Who should the testing? Almost anyone can facilitate a usability test; all it really takes is the courage to try it With a little practice, most...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 11:20

... just learning about accessibility, because the long lists and ambiguous advice suggest that there’s an awful lot to learn And the truth is, it’s a lot harder than it ought to be to make a site accessible ... worst thing about this skepticism is that it obscures the fact that there’s really only one reason that’s important: > It’s the right thing to And not just the right thing; it’s profoundly the right ... instructions Very often, the right solution is to take something (or things) away that are obscuring the meaning, rather than adding yet another distraction > Take “new feature” requests with a...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 11:20

... insists that the book has to reflect them And naturally, in the grand Beat the Clock do-it-under-water tradition, it all had to be done in a nightmarishly small amount of time She managed it only ... half right has my admiration And please don t take anything I’ve said as being against breaking “the rules”—or at least bending them I know there are even sites where you want the interface to ... something done, and attempts to engage them that interfere with their current mission are perceived as annoying, clueless, and the worst kind of hucksterism And attempts to add sizzle almost always...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 11:20

... very large type is usually a headline that summarizes a story underneath it, and that text underneath a picture is a caption that tells me what it’s a picture of All conventions start as somebody’s ... prominent it is; Things that are related logically are also related visually; and Things are “nested” visually to show what’s part of what 2: When reading a newspaper, we know that a phrase in ... what they have in mind, but it’s usually just a fraction of what’s on the page Like Ginger, they tend to focus on words and phrases that seem to match (a) the task at hand or (b) their current...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2013, 09:03

... newswire articles Note that we cannot evaluate impact on textual inference because, to our knowledge, no publicly available textual-entailment system or evaluation data for Romanian exists We therefore ... acceptable sentence; a × denotes an unacceptable sentence DLD09 algorithm Potential DE operators are collected by extracting those words that appear in an NPI’s context at least once.6 Then, the ... externallyavailable appendices (§7.1) The complete system output and annotations are publicly available at: http://www.cs.cornell.edu/˜cristian/acl2010/ fraction of NPI contexts that contain x , relative...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 00:20

... instance, that a phrase in very large type is usually a headline that summarizes the story underneath it, and that text underneath a picture is either a caption that tells me what it’s a picture ... fact is, your site may not have been that easy to find in the first place and visitors may not know of an alternative The prospect of starting over isn t always that attractive And there’s also ... looking at a page that makes me think, all the thought balloons over my head have question marks in them THINKING Hmm Pretty busy Where should I start? Is that the navigation? Or is that it over there?...

Ngày tải lên: 25/03/2014, 12:20

... “Cultivate important family relationships and friendships” • “Take steps to protect your health.” But what about all those articles and books that claim that, to enjoy a successful retirement, ... much the better if it’s something you can part-time and— should you want to relocate—isn t tied to a particular geographical area Assuming you come up with a new career idea that meets at least ... have the opportunity to learn a great deal about almost anything that interests us, whether it be how to sculpt, read Latin, teach autistic children, design a Japanese garden or any one of thousands...

Ngày tải lên: 18/04/2014, 14:05

... Unfall hatte Susi heard that Hans an accident had und dassf Hansf sterben könnte and that Hans die might ‘Susi heard that Hans had an accident and might die’ • Categorial (phrasal and lexical) nodes ... psycholinguistically motivated syntactic theory of clausal coordination and coordinative ellipsis It departs from the assumption that the generator’s strategic (conceptual, pragmatic) component is responsible ... identity For instance, the fact that the two tokens of subordinating conjunction dass ‘that’ in Fig carry the same tag, is interpreted by ELLEIPO as indicating lexical identity In combination with...

Ngày tải lên: 22/02/2014, 02:20

... coaches had that done to them Today, with talk radio and the Internet, with all the writing and chatting about every single thing that happens in sports, there’s even more heat to take than there ... I learned from being around the Indiana basketball team are still with me The most valuable: Teach your players how to practice That’s even more important than teaching them what to practice, ... as that little skinny guy who was always staring at him like some weirdo I was as intimidated by him at San Francisco as I was at South Bend, but there were a lot of assistant coaches and head...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 20:20

... enough examples already where people have managed to tread that line Managed to be real, to have a personality, and yet at the same time acknowledge the fact that they are “representing” a sector ... not pass on what you want others to see rather than all the messy, gutsy stuff that it really took to make the project happen 22 Leaving a Trace In contrast to all of these conventional methods, ... what they are talking about and are going faster than the rest People don t always want to give up the time to attend formal training but are increasingly willing to learn from each other on an...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 15:20

... should also realize that you have a right to receive important information that is accurate, including the material terms and conditions that will be a part of your lease, without having to endure ... the term of the contract (usually a term of 24, 36 or 48 months) At the end of the contract a balance or a “balloon-note” amount remains The balloon amount is the value the financial institution ... It is typically an after-sell item that requires an additional fee incorporated in the overall lease price or capital cost You can negotiate the cost of the maintenance agreement with the salesperson...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 12:20

... satisfactory quality TAKE CHARGE OF YOUR VISIT TO A GARAGE MAKING COMPLAINTS If you have a complaint, raise it with the garage as soon as possible It’s only fair that they have a chance to deal with ... correct and that it has been correctly stamped The service record book has been stamped with the garage’s stamp and that the relevant details of the service are correct Rather than replacing parts ... to Confirm that: The cost includes VAT, all parts normally replaced in the service and any other parts agreed to Confirm the details of any guarantee that comes with the work You would like to...

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 10:20