I installed Firefox browser today, plus several extensions.
The only problem I've encountered is I cannot find my IE Favorites, that I
thought would be imported into the Firefox Bookmarks. I feel dumb, since I
can't find any imported Favorites anywhere, nor any tool or function to
search for
[I posted this message on another discussion list, but since it's so
important, to my mind, I've decided to post the same message here on this
list. Apologies to those who subscribe to both.]
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You've heard of email spam, and comment spam, some may know of trackback
spam
I may be misunderstanding the situation here, but could this new My Search
be related to the new MSN Search Engine product that is supposed to be
unleashed tomorrow, Thursday?
Seems like an odd coincidence that there is a report on a mysterious My
Search on IE, right as MSN is unveiling their
There is a sudden upsurge in phishing/spoofing emails.
I am Mr. Paranoid, Son of Mr. Cautiously Hostile, and yet even I have
received phishy spoofy emails the last few days, one may have tricked even
me, from American Laboratories.
ALERT:
This is phish, and possibly worm also:
FROM: [EMAIL
What causes an external URL logo to not display?
I was given code for a logo for Museum of Computer Art to display on my art
site. It shows that my site has been critically reviewed and selected by
MOCA as a distinguished computer art site. So I'd really like to display
this logo graphic, like an
To update and expand my understanding of spam/malicious code techniques and
how to guard against them, please explain this oddity.
By using preview panel mode in MSN Mail, I was able to safely preview, but
not open, the following:
[From:] Alanna
[Subject:] Fwd:
[Message:] spring OFFICE 2003 $80:
Rudy:
What are you doing up so early? It's 4:23 AM here in Peoria, Illinois. What
am I doing up so early? I sleep from 5AM to 11AM.
Thanks for the assist.
I'm so unskilled in code, I still don't know how to fix this tiny prob.
you mean the forward slash after
museum
in the href should be
rudy:
I don't know how to put mocanet2.jpg in the root of my web server. Don't
know what this means exactly. Other external URLs I just copy and paste and
voila.
I validated the site thru that w3 validator.
Lots of invalid code. Most was from images uploaded by Hello/Picasa to
blogger.
I
rudy:
that image, like all the external link images, resides on external site.
it resides on MOCA site.
Problems with MOCA site or server or whatever cable guy says it is?
What happened to all that stuff on my template? I just got done manually
entering all those (12) links again, what a
rudy:
Thanks a lot. That code you gave me worked, though I'm so blurry, I had to
correct it, typed it in wrong and was about to give up on that logo.
The MOCA logo looks great on my site. I appreciate the fact that you came to
my beleagured assistance and now one more problem bites the dust.
rudy: thanks again for your patience and help
marc: right-o, will try to keep emails short
I wanted to give a complete description of my problem, and I always relate
to words. I forget that some problems must be seen, as well as described
verbally. Sorry.
Steven Streight
Web Usability
The Gmail invites are now gone.
Thanks to those who responded and made it worth my while to post this offer.
Just trying to return the favor Stephen Caudill did to me and others.
Steven Streight
STREIGHT SITE SYSTEMS
Web Usability Analysis
Web Content Writing
Online Direct Marketing
[EMAIL
What browsers do you recommend to download and use to view your websites?
At http://browsers.evolt.org
there are so many, some for Macs, some WebTV, some I don't know what they're
for.
I know I should download these:
Opera
Mozilla
Mosaic (NCSA? QD? SpryNet? Spyglass?)
Cello (Thomas Brown)
Since Scott Caudill offered Gmail invites on this list, and I now have Gmail
thanks to him, I just got some invites to send to people. I sent invite to
my best friend in Los Angeles and to my editor at Usability Special Interest
Group.
Now I have 2 more invites to distribute.
The first two
Joseph: thanks for taking a moment to check the color of my blog description
area. I use only browser-safe colors according to Thomas Powell's Web Design
book, the 00 and FF hexadecimals, which gives me 10 colors to choose from.
From 00 aqua to 00 yellow. I switched the background color
Joseph:
I always browse with IE 6, and the site looks okay, but when I tried using
Netscape just for a different view, it had the top 1/8 inch chopped off, the
blog posts had a gray background for the text, rather than white, and there
was a strange white stripe running across the top of the
Would appreciate a quick gaze at my new blog site, just to make sure it's
not burning any retinas on different browsers. If that violet background is
a pain, I'll change it. This is just a color check.
thanks a lot everyone.
Steven Streight
STREIGHT SITE SYSTEMS
Web Usability Analysis
Web
Thanks Drew. I signed up for the text version of Scot's newsletter about
Windows and Broadband.
I cannot install the Google toolbar or the Alexa tool bar. I have downloaded
them, then gone to my download file and activated installation wizard, then
I see both tool bars installed, seems okay,
Has anyone visited the
http://channel9.msdn.com
web site?
I am finding numerous usability issues with this site, and frankly, though
I'm a big fan of MSN, I find this web site to have too many usability
problems and design violations to even list.
Maybe I'm just turning into a cranky
Hi gang.
Since I started this polite uproar over how to learn the right way to
compose HTML, XML, CSS, etc. ...
..thanks to all of the many responders and descriptors I've received. Can
barely keep up with it all.
All I have currently is Thomas Powell's amazing compendium WEB DESIGN: THE
Will: that was really nice of you to write all that CSS code for jac.
I just noticed it and wanted to say I'm impressed with how people on this
discussion list are like family, or even like a virtual advisory staff and
I've gained great insights from it myself.
I'm not in the same league as
If you have a moment, can you recommend what you consider the best book on
HTML?
Best FREE online tutorial?
Is HTML Goodies any good?
IBM offers tutes for pro developers, too advanced for me.
I've learned a lot of usability theory, had a fair amount of practice
evaluating sites, even done
I took a second, still brief look at the www.kearys.ie site.
Still like the home page layout.
But the Flash central animation has a few problems.
FLASH PROBLEMS:
1. The Kearys of Cork, Kearys of Midleton, and Kearys Mallow (not of
Mallow?) all look the same. This may be intentional, but
My 30 second review:
I've been working on my second blog site, for user research, but...
Wow! And I don't use that expression very often.
Whoa! Really usable and clear and, well, so many things that some web sites
fail to provide.
Left hand primary navigation links area is so well presented.
Just a quick question here:
I have an email from WD digest that discusses query strings, whether URLs
should be meaningful for usability (e.g., /contact.html or can be mysterious
for filing purposes (e.g. /4565.html).
Good discussion. But I want to print out only those parts of WD digest
Thanks for alerting me to what postmaster at faraway dot co dot uk might be:
some mistake triggered by sending email to wdvl talk.
I didn't recognize the sender address, so of course, I refused to open the
email. But I didn't want to delete it until I checked my sent email file,
trying to
Joseph Harris, all the way from UK
and David Blakey:
Wow. Thanks for taking valuable time to look at the mgmt consultancy web
site I was curious about.
David, if I can ever help you in any way, yank my chain.
You sir went way beyond the call of duty in all that analysis and commentary
on the
Cheryl Wise: thank you for your humorous anecdote.
My position is: if a firm really *does* something valuable, then it better
communicate this *something* as powerfully, clearly, accurately,
triumphantly, and truthfully as possible.
If a firm isn't really doing anything worthwhile, just
I enjoyed the discussion of pricing for web work.
I had a recent client who wanted me to improve the
textual content of his web site, and turn on some
Search Engine Optimization in the copy and so on.
It was a little schlocky web site for personal storage
units. A web content mgmt. friend said I
Yes, I are there, vary much so, in fact.
I've been working hard on my own blog site,
a free one from Google:
http://www.vaspersthegrate.blogspot.com
I changed the colors and added several articles
on web usability.
Check out the Banned from Other Blog Sites: A
Primer in Cold Kicking for a
Amanda: thank you for taking time to help me.
This is all brand new to me. I've never actually
worked directly on the code for a web site, I
always analyzed text and usability issues.
Now I'm diving in and using Thomas Powell's book
WEB DESIGN: THE COMPLETE REFERENCE as guide.
Help please: I
I'm in a horrid job crunch, a client meeting
that I had only 24 hours notice on. Arrrggg...
But you folks have helped me tons, so here's my
60 second review of two pages of this site:
1. I delicately humbly suggest that you ditch the
animation on home page, where the models change to
show the
Possible wdvl spammer/virus Alert:
I just deleted an email from wdvltalk list.
I could be wrong, but I didn't trust what I saw.
Has anyone else gotten a suspicious, thus deleted,
email on the wdvl talk discussion list?
Email in question was from R'twick Niceorgaw.
Subject was
Again, there remains the danger that when you opt out
to unsubscribe, you will identify your email address
as active, valid, and **responsive**, which you don't
want to do. You'll vastly multiply your spam.
I'm going to very soon kill one or two email accounts.
I don't care who I lose in the
I have a client who wants better ranking in Search
Engine results lists.
So I look at their web site. Pretty poor.
It needs keyword enrichment copy throughout, not
spamming the keywords nonsensically, but strategically
injecting the keywords in the text.
Also needs more pages of relevant
I'm a little lost here at this web site.
I recommend a little more human presence, some
friendly copy speaking from the photographic artist
to me, the potential customer and adoring spectator.
Sites that just put up their products and expect
prospects to be amazed and overwhelmed are missing the
Tim:
You may forward my comments to your marketing director.
Thanks for the compliments on my usability notes.
I appreciate your keen insight into all the ideas discussed.
I'm sending you a personal email with more details.
Steven Streight
STREIGHT SITE SYSTEMS
Web Usability Analysis,
I agree with David Blakey, but I would want to be
a wee bit more diplomatic about it. LOL
Marketing directors aren't necessarily experts at
all aspects of marketing communications. Many have
great thinking in terms of overall planning and
implementation...but need expert input on design,
content
Quick Web HOME PAGE Usability Review:
1. Small print. Can you offer larger print option button?
Seniors tend to need lawyers, and have poor eyesight.
2. A tradition for legal excellence...etc. is not the
strongest claim that can be made by this firm.
3. Ranked #1 Law Firm in Kansas 2003...by
Cheryl Wise: thank you for adding those very good
comments about legal restrictions on law firm
advertising.
I admit I have never worked on law firm web sites.
I was speaking in general terms according to good
online copywriting and usability principles.
Every specific industry must follow its
Will:
You're getting some great constructive criticism. But you also do many
things
correctly from a usability perspective. The center of Home Page What are
you
looking for? with a list of links, this is something I proclaim loudly to
site designers. Let users self-identify and see what links
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