Intelligent hyperlinking

March 19, 2009  

In the good old days, when the Internet first began, we had to train users how to use it. A standard was created which dictated that hyperlinks (links to another page) would be underlined. So Internet users were trained to recognise a piece of text that they could click on to go somewhere [...]

Dance Factory

December 1, 2008  

I’ve spent all year studying at the Dance Factory and was very happy to be asked to redesign and build their website. See www.dancefactory.com.au
         

How to create a homepage to please everyone (well almost everyone)

August 14, 2007  

One of the first things that I learned about website usability was that the homepage is the most controversial page of a website:

It is the first page that visitors see and therefore the most important
Everybody wants a piece of it
There are so many things you need to include: navigation, shortcuts, login / registration, info about [...]

New blog & Scriptaculous Splash script

May 19, 2007  

I’ve created a new blog to be consistent with my company website and imported the posts from this blog.  I might eventually shut down this blog and use that one only.  However, for now it is just work-related.  Go to http://www.spiraldesigns.com.au/blog.
Along with  a few other changes to the Spiral Designs site, I’ve added a page [...]