66: Rapid Prototyping Definition

I don't do static wireframes. I'm an advocate of rapid prototyping in HTML and CSS. Then testing is done immediately online. This just makes sense and is more real-world than sketches of interfaces. It's a shortcut and goes hand-in-hand with fast site development. Read more about this idea:

http://www.uxforthemasses.com/rapid-prototyping/

65: Online Speed Measurement and Ranking

Yottaa is a great online tool for checking web performance. This link is a test of www.pagepipe.com. The home of PagePipe UX. 32.5K webpage!


http://www.yottaa.com/url/www-pagepipe-com-4e44800b4b6b2257b000002d

64: Tablet Indigestion

The metaphor of indigestion compared to site bloat for tablets is just too perfect. They make you feel ill, uncomfortable, frustrated, distracted, and painful. These kind of sites really are hard to "stomach".

63: Page Hijacking

In the late 1990's, Frames were sometimes used to hijack pages from other websites. This was considered unethical. It was essentially stealing content and rebranding it. I'm not an advocate of this HTML Frame con.

I am fan of embedding a web service into a Frame. These services include such things as: Blogger, Jalbum, form processors, and other "cloud or widget" resources. More seem to come into existence every day. They are modules or patterns. The feeling is you have never left the main site.

62: LINKS: Form Processing and background tiles

http://vandelaydesign.com/blog/tools/web-forms/

http://www.onextrapixel.com/2010/09/24/50-pattern-sets-to-spice-up-your-websites-background/

61: Ego Marketing

Ego Marketing is:
1. Showing off product coolness. Splash and buzz is like a firework (short.)
2. Spends too much of early critical resources on big-bang tradeshows and ads.

Burn Rate: the rate at which a start-up company spends capital to finance operations before generating positive cash flow from operations.

Organic Marketing: Results are what matter:
1. What really matters is where the product is installed and how it's holding up.
2. First seed the market with a minimum of installations and corresponding reputable testimonials. This builds a portfolio of endorsers and testimonials.
3. Target resources for cost efficiency. "Low-fidelity" marketing communications can outperform glitz.

60: Tables for small sites.

Do tables fit the bill for small sites?

• Tables always work. There is less code to learn, so chances of building it wrong are reduced.
  
• Table code is easier to understand. Doing HTML tables is quite straightforward, you have the
  

  tags that make things easier to follow. CSS DIVs look the same! Tables designs look the same in most browsers. Being a very basic code even IE6 does a decent job in displaying the content Table designs make no difference for the customers. Most people don’t know how the code behind a site is made. Another good reference: http://www.noupe.com/how-tos/better-ui-design-proper-use-of-tables.html