Category Archives: Links

OJR’s “five guide” to do-it-yourself website usability testing

Online Journalism Reviews offers steps and forms to test how readers will react to a new multimedia project or website design.

Video: Wikis in Plain English | Common Craft

We made this video because wiki web sites are easy to use, but hard to describe.

Video: RSS in Plain English | Common Craft

We made this video for our friends (and yours) that haven’t yet felt the power of our friend the RSS reader… if you know someone who would love RSS and hasn’t yet tried it, point them here for 3.5 minutes of RSS in Plain English.

Line short numerical and mathematical expressions with hard spaces

From The Elements of Typographic Style Applied to the Web. Use a non-breaking space to maintain association between number-word pairings like dimensions or chapter numbers. A regular expression in the CMS could effect this automatically.

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