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The main reason I decided to redesign is because alot of people tell me we don't understand anything when visiting your site, a UX problem, I realized my old site was hard to understand for regular un-advanced web surfers, it may be usable for web savvy but for other people it's not.
So this is how I started rethinking about the IA from the very beginning, mixing up IA main three aspects context, content & user.
What do I want the visitor to understand, what action I want him to take, what image I want to deliver to him and how this will work with the content I have, mixing this by the user needs, first who is the visitors what they wanted to see, what's make them happy.
Redesigning a site's UX sometimes is not enough, sometimes you have to go further and redesign the whole IA to get the UX design you desire, I think of UX as hospitality, if you imagined some stranger visiting a hotel lobby, how hospitable receptionists usually be, your home page is the same, you have to make it as hospitable and comfortable to users as possible, that's why I make up the comfortable home theme, most welcoming the visitors and inviting them to feel home.
Even in choosing the words, the first word in the new design is You while this kind of sites usually start with the word I , UX involves human psychology alot.
Thanks alot for your support, I hope you like the new design, and if you have any comments or you see any thing here as confusing or annoying, please leave your comments below.
January 20, 2010, 7:40 AM
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Congrats, this has been waited so long, finally Arabic web domains.
Egypt will open the world's first Arabic language internet domain, its communications minister has said.
BBC NEWS - Egypt launches Arabic web domain
Why this step was delayed till now ? here's why
Last month, internet regulator Icann voted to allow non-Latin web addresses. Domain names can now be written in Arabic, Chinese and other scripts.
BBC News - Egypt launches Arabic web domain
I still don't know what will it exactly look like, we may learn about it the next few days hopefully but here is one example I found. http://حوراء.com, if anybody know other examples of Arabic domains please write it down in the comments
The big question is, Will we actually use this domains ? What is it's effect on SEO ? will it have any compatibility issues with different browsers or devices like mobiles etc..?
November 16, 2009, 11:54 AM
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WaSP has just announced the Street Team what a great idea, letting every one make his mark in supporting the standards.
There first project is great, its objective is to move old books that contains old, harmful information about the web from the libraries shelves to the archives, go on make your mark.
And don't forget to add there button to your site. linking to http://streetteam.webstandards.org.
March 11, 2008, 12:46 PM
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Here it comes again d.Construct 2007 on 7th September at Brighton Dome, this year it's all about Designing the user experience as a result of that the d.Construct site will be evolved over time to mimic the user experience process, what an idea.
May 22, 2007, 7:30 PM
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Are you surprised why this site is CSS naked just like last year, here comes again 5th April the annual CSS Naked Day started by Dustin Diaz on 5th April 2006.
Do you have enough courage to take of your CSS showing how semantic and clean your markup is.
April 4, 2007, 10:50 PM
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Since the WaSP introduced the forming of International Liaison Group (ILG) I was very interested to join this group of international Standardista's, because together we could help each others to reach the goal we all work for, which is a better web for all of us, we've been working together all this time since about May 13 2006 till now, and now finally it's announced I represent Egypt, and I hope I could deliver to the Egyptian web community the importance of complying the standards, I've been trying this since 2005 but now as we all together, it's even easier.
Thanks all ILG members for your support and sorry for being a lazy member, and special thanks to Molly who started this whole idea and by the way good luck Molly with your new position at Microsoft.
February 3, 2007, 7:52 AM
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Hello all! good morning to all of you, Today is the birth of our very own project ausedcar.net all it's meant to do is to be a directory of used cars where you can view cars by any search criteria like make, price & ofcourse country as well as you can add your car with it's details and your contact info for whoever is interested of your car.
So what's so special about this there is dozens of used cars directories out there?
The first principle I put in front my eyes while designing this system is Less is more
that means that this is only a used cars directory and it's nothing easier than viewing or adding cars you don't have to login and run through a questionnaire etc it's really so simple.
If your privacy matters you may choose not to show your contact information instead a form will be shown to buyer so he can send you his contact info and a message.
It's all AJAXed maybe a non technical person would not understand that, but it simply means you don't have to jump from page to page every time you request an operation like for example when you add a car or request a photo or contact info "Buy now" no refreshment to the page all in the same page, thanks to Mostafa Sobhy in that and in developing the whole back end system that's terrific Mostafa.
You could follow new added cars by RSS it's a technology for fast tracking content without the need of viewing the whole site, many of you already know that.
For short ausedcar.net is not just a new cars directory like any one out there, it's user experience was perfectly designed to be friendly fun & easy.
Cross posted on ausedcar.net blog.
January 25, 2007, 9:56 AM
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adaptive path the leaders of user experience has arranged the user experience week from August 14 to 17, I hope there will be any podcasts to hear, as there are very interesting topics that will be discussed with very interesting speakers including Jesse James Garrett from adaptive path & Jeffrey Veen a co-founder of adaptive path currently working with google.
July 7, 2006, 3:27 PM
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@media 2006 is starting tomorrow don't miss it, all pioneer designers/developers/speakers will be there speaking about all new technologies, techniques and standards, check the schedule all sessions are great but I have special interest in Good Design vs. Great Design, Fine Typography On the Web & Designing the Next Generation of Web Apps on day one, Internationalisation: Awakening The Sleeping Giant & Microformats: Evolving the Web on day two.
Last year event was great and this year looks even greater, I hope I could go there but unfortunately I couldn't, but no worries I'm sure a lot of bloggers will live blog the event, and the podcasts will come out short after the event too.
Thanks to Gareth for setting up this mini site putting all @media related posts from the blogsphere infront of your eyes in one page, if you are live blogging tomorrow please suggest your feed.
June 14, 2006, 6:17 PM
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A competition between Ruby on Rails developers for the best Ruby application built in 24 hours from 12:00am Eastern Daylight Time on June 17th and 11:59pm EDT on June 17th including all digital mock-ups, identity design, XHTML, CSS, Flash, Javascript, etc.
I'm not a Rails developer but I still love the day
June 11, 2006, 4:26 PM
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Eric Meyer, Molly, Kelly Goto, Dave Shea, Andy Clarke, Joe Clark & Shaun Inman are all in Iceland today and tomorrow speaking in IceWeb 2006 conference about various interesting topics related to web standards and latest technologies.
Joe Clark is live blogging the conference, thanks Joe.
April 27, 2006, 6:16 PM
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Here comes again the reboot time when web designers all over the world redesign there CSS styled sites showing the entire world all at once just how great accessible, standards design can really be. On 1st May all rebooters will expose there new designs.
I'm glad to announce that FRESH PX is sponsoring the reboot this year, as our goals are similar the only difference is to refresh web logs instead of reboot web sites.
April 21, 2006, 7:33 AM
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In the spirit of promoting Web Standards along with good semantic markup and proper hierarchy structure, Dustin Diaz will start the first annual CSS naked day on 5th April.
Who has the courage to take off his CSS for a day and show his <body> to every one, check the naked page to see how can you participate and a list of all participants.
I'm in with Point & FRESH PX, see us naked next Wednesday.
April 3, 2006, 10:36 PM
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We’ve stung, we’ve swarmed, we’ve buzzed. Sometimes we’ve failed to make our mark, other times we’ve been far more successful. But there’s one thing that’s certain, and that is as of Monday, March 13th, the Web Standards Project enters a new time in its history, opening the hive up to better include the communities and issues we’ve done our black and gold best to represent since 1998.
Help Free the Web with WaSP - Molly E. Holzschlag
As the WaSP entering a new time in its history, I'd like to thank them for being very supportive and helpful in leading me through the way of web standards and I think it's time to start to respond and begin learning and acting hoping for better cleaner web experience.
As WaSP entering a new time in its history Andy Clark has redesigned the WaSP site in a new black and gold theme with better more informative home page and finally comments & trackback support.
March 15, 2006, 7:10 AM
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@media back to us only bigger and better from folks at Vivabit, @media 2006 announced to be held on 16th-17th June collecting the most well known experts from all over the world discussing the hottest topics out there, we will miss Jeffrey Zeldman and Douglas Bowman this year.
Can't wait to hear @media's podcasts I hope the organizers podcast every session, especially Molly's session Internationalisation: Awakening the Sleeping Giant and Tantek's session Microformats: Evolving The Web.
January 4, 2006, 8:35 PM
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A cheap, robust laptop has been developed by MIT Media Lab for only $100 Its main objective is deliviring better education for poor students.
The new laptop Nicknamed the green machine is extremly functional, it has a very low power consumption that it is powered only with a wind-up crank, instead of hard drive it has a 1GB flash memory.
here is it's specs as mentioned on Wikipedia.
Hardware
Its hardware specifications, as of October 2005, are:
- 500 MHz CPU (Processor) by AMD (Advanced Micro Devices) Inc.
- 1 GB of flash memory (no hard drive)
- SVGA 8" diagonal display (dual LCD Colour/Black & White mode for power conservation and outdoor reading); estimated cost $35
- 128 MB of DRAM
- AC Cord that doubles as carrying strap as the power source and a hand-crank (one minute of cranking gives enough power for 10 minutes of operating).
- The cost of materials and assembly for each laptop is estimated to be approximately $100.
Software
All of the software on the $100 Laptop will be open-source. The projected software as of November 2005 is:
- Red Hat Linux variant as operating system
- A web browser
- A word processor
- An email program
- A programming system
The laptops will only be distributed to schools directly through large government initiatives, Brazil, Thailand, Egypt, United States (Massachusetts), Cambodia, Costa Rica and Tunisia already committed in various ways.
Let me add that this step is a huge step in the history of Education, IT and ofcourse the web, every body will be able to browse the net and use Email, Till now only 14% of the world use the net and 64% in the US after this step things will change.
November 17, 2005, 5:09 PM
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d.construct held on 11 of November I hope most of you followed the live updates, it was really a great conference I personally learned alot from it.
First of all Andy's presentation titled What is Web 2.0? was great, the community needed a presentation like this long time ago there was alot of thoughts going around including mine, but this presentation document those thoughts in a simple understandable points that I think every body agree on.
Stuart's presentation about DOM scripting and Ajax was also very useful explains how DOM can make richer user experiences and that Ajax reduce the waiting time which also leads to a better experience
Tom Hume Presentation Web everywhere? was a new topic to me but it was very interesting it contains valuable information about mobile phones popularity and how it is the device of the century, letting you really believe that it is the future of the internet, and start thinking how the web will be few years later.
Thanks to all of you guys who work to make the web a better place and special thanks to Andy Budd who hosted the conference and to attendees who live blog the conference Paul Boag, Zach Inglis & Tim Beadle.
Don't forget to see the presentations
November 13, 2005, 2:21 PM
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d.construct is a conference about Web 2.0 hosted by Andy Budd featuring a rich program started by Andy's presentation named What is Web 2.0 which I think will be a very important presentation that the community need it now very much plus other great presentations too about new technologies like Ajax & flash, and other great presentations too.
Andy said he will try to post updates on his blog but you can keep up with Technorati and Flickr.
Check comments for live update
November 11, 2005, 10:31 AM
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WE05 started in sydney early yesterday at 9 am by Molly Holzschlag Keynote presentation titled State of the Web, 2005 were she pointed several good points about what the web has reached today and how it is incredibly positive network that bond people together from different countries with very low costs , she introduced most of the speakers , and she also mentioned some of the new Web 2.0 related applications & technologies like flickr, Google maps, Skype, AJAX, Basecamp, upcoming.org, Del.icio.us & Ruby on Rails.
You may ask me were you there?
that's a good question and the answer is no and I don't have to be there to know every thing about the conference and this is a practical demo of how the web can be helpful in connecting people together. As the conference started people there started posting photos on flickr, writing on there blogs & podcasting online from there.
Well actually I listened to Molly's keynote only so I think I will have a cup of coffee and continue listening the rest of the presentations.
September 30, 2005, 4:03 PM
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