What an idea, I’m still so excited and beeming off, man this is a brilliant idea. What a…. guess I can’t stop sayin’ how good this one is.
Via Advertising Goodness .
Although I know these kind of short posts are not worth bloging but worth informing, so I’m going to add a new section after the redesign to include a side note kind of posts called in the loop or the loop.
Web Standards Project aka WaSP gets a face-lift or allow me to say a make-over. It’s beautiful! You wouldn’t recognize her, beleive me you won’t, she’s hot!
This is a significant redeisgn of WaSP where they switched over to Wordpress, leaving out on Movable Type .
It stings! becareful & enjoy surfin’ around tha’ Bee.
The Swedish motor vehicle manufacturer has appointed branding agency Bite to develop its logo as part of a plan to elevate the marque’s iron symbol to give it the same level of prominence as the Volvo mark.
The changes to the logo are subtle, with the iron mark now more curved and thicker bevelled edges. The shape of the arrow has also been changed slightly. The blue of the “Volvo” script is retained, but the silver used for the iron mark is now a softer matt shade in an attempt to give it a more luxurious feel.
Now a days you can’t have an auto brand with no metal or brushed metal shinings/shadows and textures engraved in your identity. As the mediums change, meanings change, and the change of solid straightened cars to curved and 3d looking beauties–Volvo is taking the right turn, indeed.
For a rebrand after 75 years, it’s huge! Okay, now I’m waiting for the new models of Volvo’s cars with the new logo on them.
After posting my article on AJaX vs. Flash part 2 , I got featured on some blogs and forums which drove some traffic back to my blog. Along side I’ve been watching the search keywords that hit my blog. It’s funny what keywords lead to here, many many people came here with keywords such as “what is web2.0″, “web2.0 devices”, “web2.0 technology”, and many many funnier.
Although the number of hits that I get for those keywords are under 1,000 it still signifies the curiousity of the people hearing about web2.0 and it’s hype. Isn’t there any good place for it?
It just has to be felt and understood. It ain’t no definition as everybody stated. I agree with all.
When I want to translate what the web2.0 is to myself the only thing that makes me happy is the fact that web has become complicated and not who ever can claim of being a web specialist anymore, unlike the past years before this hype. That’s more than enough to keep me happy 
Finaly some appriciation and distinction, well the party never ends, more automation tools are added to the grain, you guessed it.
When was the last time you clicked on an alert-box or message box’s ok button? When did you last click on a yes button on a confirm-box? Long time ago, at least for me. What’s good about inline-messaging in the markup? How does it improve the user experience if it does at all, and more are subjects of this article.
Dialogue boxes or message/input/confirm boxes are part of the basic webbrowser-user interaction framework. Every webbrowser has it’s own native boxes, icons and colors are different in every browser, however they all do the same thing and are invoked using the same particular function in Javascript.
Diealoges are all Window object methods in Javascript wich result in modal boxes that await input(click, keypress, or value insertion) from the user. We’re talking about the ol’ alert(), confirm(), and prompt() functions.
What happened is, they’re rarely used nowadays with the existense of many other ways of implementing the same interaction with less user abuse and smoother attantion capturing methods such as inline-messaging and smooth/animated modal dialoge boxes(lightbox-gone-wild as an example)
It’s not so new. It’s been there for a long long while, but, it’s time to embrace it to the max; AJaX and DOM are supported more than ever on the major browsers, so that’s why.
On the hype of Web2.0 or the AJaX and weekly project beta pop-ups this new way of interacting with users along with the new ways of gathering data, validating, and data views have somehow evolved and are now fresher, quicker, and most importantly all inline.
Inline, as in next to your error, below the empty form-field, on top of the whole page deeming the rest of the content, and even beside you mouse pointer. All this along with nice little stylings for erroneos elements and messaging elements that make it easier to distinguish.
All this appeals and works for the user because it is done on the same page, most of the people dislike the built-in dialogues and many think there are erros of the page they are on. On the flip side the inline model lacks the beep sound which in most cases will cause users to wait and wait but not hear the beep/ding sound. On a regular desktop application there are APIs specific to every OS that could invoke the beep/ding sound to grab user’s attention, but not with inline messaging on web–no OS APIs available on the browser side.
So which one are you going to use next time developing a web app? Browser based dialoges or your own custom inline messaging solution? Well, that’s up to you. But here’s my take on the decision.
