Site Design: Website Building Programs
From: www.wilsonweb.com

"Describes various kinds of sitebuilding wizards to build and maintain a website: standard website builders, store-building programs, Ken Evoy's Site Build It!, website updaters, and content management systems. Recommends tools from Yahoo!, SiteSell, and Interactivetools.com. Date: May 5, 2004, 14:04 PST"

Ads and Affiliates: Keeping Up with Yahoo!'s Advertising Options
From: www.wilsonweb.com

"Pros and cons of various kinds of advertising offered on Yahoo. Recommends free submissions, Overture ads, and Yahoo! Directory Express Submit. Only certain e-commerce businesses will profit much from Overture Site Match (paid inclusion) and Yahoo! Product Submit (for Yahoo! Shopping). Date: Apr 28, 2004, 22:07 PST"

E-Mail Marketing: CSS and Email, Kissing in a Tree
From: www.alistapart.com

"A List Apart discusses how HTML e-mail is rendered in various e-mail clients with some conclusions: (1) Envelop the contents of e-mail in a DIV tag, not a BODY tag which may be stripped out. (2) Use class selectors that begin with a letter rather than a dot. (3) Customize CSS definitions. (4) Consider ignoring HotMail's HTML ineptitude. Date: Apr 28, 2004, 10:23 PST"

Local Marketing: How to increase your sales by optimizing for local markets
From: www.marketposition.com

"MarketPosition offers ideas to help local businesses get more search engine traffic. Suggests adding local keywords -- such as address, city, state, province, or postal code -- to all of your keyword-rich webpages via a header or footer, rather than burying the information only on your contact page. Suggests also adding other regional indicators and names of nearby cities. Spell out the state name, include a county name, etc. Date: Apr 28, 2004, 10:17 PST"

E-Mail Marketing: Slowing Your E-Mail Send Rate
From: www.wilsonweb.com

"If you're sending bulk e-mails through your ISP, you'll probably need to slow the send rate so that your ISP doesn't think you're a spammer and cut off your e-mail. Here's how I do it with Gammadyne Mailer. Date: Apr 21, 2004, 14:45 PST"


Is The Google Honeymoon With The Press Over?
From: www.webpronews.com

"Since its launch in September of 1999, Google s non-portal interface and relevant search results have predominantly received positive coverage from users and press members alike."

AskJeeves Completes Interactive Acquisition
From: www.webpronews.com

"In a move that is expected to double their search engine market traffic, AskJeeves announced the finalization of their purchase of Interactive Search Holdings. Terms of the agreement calls for Jeeves to pay $144 million in cash and to issue 9.3 million shares of common stock to Interactive."

AskJeeves And Teoma Now Index PDF Files
From: www.webpronews.com

"AskJeeves, which uses the Teoma database for its reults, now has PDF files showing up in their SERPs. Pages that are in PDF format have text [PDF File] next to the listing to differentiate from regular html documents. "

Cinco de Mayo Graphic Follow Up
From: www.webpronews.com

"Yesterday, (http://www.webpronews.com/news/ebusinessnews/wpn-45-20040505CincodeMayoDesignAbsentFromGoogleLogo.html)WebProNews reported that Google disappointingly had not produced a graphic to commemorate the Mexican holiday. "

German Search Site Wants Google In Court
From: www.webpronews.com

"Claiming that Google violated the terms of an injunction issued from a Hamburg court, German meta search engine metaspinner has vowed to take the search engine to court. The dispute once again comes from Google s trademark policy."


Microsoft Plugs PC as Media Hub
From: www.wired.com

"At this year's confab for hardware developers, Microsoft continues to plug the PC as the center of home entertainment in the future. It's a category the company must master, because time is running out for the plain ol' PC. Cydney Gillis reports from the WinHEC conference in Seattle."

Game Makers' Hand-to-Hand Combat
From: www.wired.com

"Nintendo is in danger of getting slapped silly by Sony twice in a decade. As Sony preps a new whiz-bang handheld video-game machine, Nintendo will answer with the upcoming DS. If the DS flops, Nintendo is in big trouble. By Daniel Terdiman."

Record Industry Wants Still More
From: www.wired.com

"It's not enough for the music industry that legal music downloads are gaining popularity. Company honchos want to raise song prices and gain more control of distribution. Michael Grebb reports from the Future of Music conference in Washington, D.C."

Business Buys Into Fuel Cells
From: www.wired.com

"California businesses are taking advantage of government incentive programs to use renewable energy sources like fuel cells and solar panels, but independence is still a way off. By John Gartner."

More Gore On Television
From: www.wired.com

"Al Gore plans to launch a cable news network. Also: Sony launches an online music store.... Red Hat returns to the desktop market.... and more."


Software Usability Tools, Templates, and Testing Facilities
From: webword.com

" informIT -- "This chapter outlines the tools you need, the templates that are helpful, and usability testing facilities that will help your staff be most efficient and effective in creating usability and testing plans."

Good stuff.

Read the article...

Also, check out Eric Shaffer's book: Institutionalization of Usability : A Step-by-Step Guide

(The article referenced above is from Eric's book.) "

Listamatic Rocks!
From: webword.com

" "Can you take a simple list and use different Cascading Style Sheets to create radically different list options? The Listamatic shows the power of CSS when applied to one simple list using samples from Eric Meyer, ProjectSeven, SimpleBits, Jeffrey Zeldman and others."

Listamatic is a very useful resource. Highly recommended if you need help with creating or understanding lists.

Visit Listamatic today...

Don't miss:

Listamatic2
Listutorial
Floatutorial
Selectutorial

And while we're talking about lists, check these out too:

CSS List Properties
CSS Design: Taming Lists


"

Understanding Organizational Stakeholders for Design Success
From: webword.com

" Boxes and Arrows -- "User-centered design professionals pay special emphasis to one type of stakeholder the users of the system arguing that user experience needs to be carefully crafted to satisfy user needs. While understanding user needs and goals is certainly necessary, it is often not sufficient for producing a successful design. Apart from an understanding of user needs and perspective, design needs to incorporate the goals and perspective of other stakeholders in order to get their buy-in and be considered a success in the corporate workplace."

That about sums it up.

Read the entire article..."

Using Games in HCI
From: webword.com

" OK/Cancel -- "CHI 2004 had a few panels focused on videogames. Of these, a couple of ideas were particularly innovative and really point to how games are leading the way in the field of HCI: Uncle Roy All Around You and The ESP Game."

Read more about Uncle Roy and the ESP Game...

Also, dont miss:

OK/Cancel's CHI 2004 highlights"

Enterprise Information Architecture
From: webword.com

" EContentMag.com -- "If EIA is so great, then why is it apparently practiced so little? There are several plausible reasons. Many IA specialists concede a generalized failure across the industry in getting the message of enterprise IA across to senior corporate leaders in ways that would spawn more effective champions and project sponsors."

Includes a couple of good sidebars and links.

Read the article...
"