Category Archives: Tips and techniques

From Web tables to Excel

By Jay Collier | Published: October 11, 2007
Jim Fergerson sent this recommendation: Here is one of the more useful Firefox add-ons that I’ve found. Makes it simple to cut/paste table data directly from web pages to Excel without a lot clean up and post-processing. You can even filter/sort the table in place on the web page.
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Search engine optimization

By Jay Collier | Published: July 18, 2007
Here are a few resources on search engine optimization, just to get started. Article from Wikipedia Everything you ever wanted to know about Google’s PageRank Google’s Web master guidelines for content Penn/Wharton’s SEO strategies — #5 worldwide result for “knowledge” (requires wiki password) Writing for the Web from Web Credible Does your copy hold up to a quick glance? from Digital [...]
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New resources: on architecture and interface

By Jay Collier | Published: July 17, 2007
As a follow-up to our recent meetings, we’ve just added a Guide to Creating Web site Information Architecture and Content to our wiki. It was developed by colleagues from the University Web Roundtable and available to Bates staff by permission. (Wiki password required.) Also, here are three recent articles covering basics of visual, Web, and interface [...]
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Designing interfaces

By Jay Collier | Published: July 16, 2007
Last month, we participated in a Webinar on user-centered Web interface design. The presenter, Matt Winkel, did a great job covering all (and I mean all of the basic methods for developing user-oriented interfaces.
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