Favorite Links from September
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Here are some notable Web site links we discovered in the month of September.
13 Amazing Firefox Add-Ons To Make Designers Lives Easier
Smashing Apps has assembled some very useful Firefox plug-ins and extensions that are practically to improve efficiency and otherwise make your web designing life easier, particularly Link Checker.
Web Designer Cheat Sheets
It’s difficult to remember every nuance, shortcut and hex value for the different programs and code bases you use. Take a gander at this web page, chock full of short cuts for programs such as Photoshop and Dreamweaver, languages such as HTML and CSS and much more.
Tutorials on Microformats
Want to learn more about Microformats? Heard about them but aren’t quite sure what they are? Roger Costello has put together several terrific online presentations that define and detail the benefits and appropriate usage of Microformats. A great read.
5-Second Tests: Measuring Your Site’s Content Pages
Want to determine if your content page is easy for your users to understand? Do you have five seconds? Dip your foot in the “usability testing” pool by reading this article from Christine Perfetti of User Interface Engineering.
FiveSecondTest.com
Now that you’ve learned about the Five Second Test and how it can help in doing a proper evaluation of your page design, you can use FiveSecondTest.com to run a test, without the need for special hardware or software.
Thanks to Katherine Lindsey for providing the usability links. If you have any other suggestions for web sites that would be of interest, submit them in the comments or send to webmaster@ufl.edu.
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