October 3rd, 2008
I’ve had a little trouble finding out how to use User Controls in the ASP.NET MVC Framework and how to pass data to it. I haven’t been able to find a single article that clearly explains how to do this, so I thought I’ll do a little write up on the topic.
October 1st, 2008
jQuery is going to be a part of Visual Studio. This is a great, and I must say, an unexpected development of things.
For me personally, who’s already using jQuery along with ASP.NET, the main difference will be the intellisense annotation support for jQuery. This will be a welcomed enhancement of my development environment. Needless to [...]
September 29th, 2008
How do one visualize the age dimension of content?
In the real world it’s not a problem. Physical objects, like paper, clearly wears the mark of time. Paper turns yellow and get torn. Other things get scratched or changes it’s appearance in some other way that makes it obvious that it’s not new.
September 25th, 2008
My Firefox installation got upgraded to 3.0.2 today. And to my surprise the back and forward buttons is gone!
September 21st, 2008
Action buttons exists at the bottom of almost every web form. They’re so common that we often doesn’t even reflect on how to actually design them. By gathering information from a few of the great minds in the field of web usability and also from my own experiences, I’ve tried to come up with a [...]
September 14th, 2008
This book has a very narrow scope. It’s all about how to design web forms. And when you think about it, why not. Most interactions with websites and web application happens through the use of web forms so why not make sure to design them as effectively as possible.
Studies have shown that completion rates of [...]
September 3rd, 2008
I wrote about it in my blogpost Easiest sign up ever one and a half year ago, where I described the sign-up process of Geni, a site about building your own family tree. I didn’t know the name of the concept then, but after reading Luke Wroblewski’s Web Form Design I certainly do. (A review [...]
September 1st, 2008
Imagemaps was very popular in the early days of webdesign but seem to have fallen out of grace. Probably due to accessibility problems and the rise of CSS based designs. I think that it still has it’s place when used properly and one being aware of it’s potential accessibility problems.
In a recent project I was [...]
August 27th, 2008
In the upcoming new version of Internet Explorer 8, which is in public Beta 1 right now, there’s support for a new technique called WebSlices. Is this yet another proprietary feature of Microsoft or is it a really useful evolution of RSS that will be adopted as a web standard? Since it follows the patterns [...]
August 21st, 2008
I’ve started working with the Javascript framework jQuery lately and I must say that I find it very enjoyable! I have previously mostly used Prototype and DOMAssistant, and although they excel in some areas I somehow find jQuery more fun to code with.
Here’s a simple tip on how to loop through elements with jQuery that [...]
My name is Gabriel Svennerberg and I'm an usability oriented web developer living in Sweden.
This is my blog and it's all about web development and usability.
