Archive for September 25th, 2009

September 25, 2009

WordPress jQuery contact form without a plugin
Trevor Davis creates this contact form using only the WordPress templating system and jQuery.
Next On…
Shaun Inman comes up with a lot of nifty, web–related things. He came up with these javascript bookmarklets that add the ability to go to the previous and next posts. Useful if you’re using Safari’s command + [1-9] key command to quickly move back and forth in website archives.
Fresh vs. Familiar: How Aggressively to Redesign
Jakob Nielsen reasoning why it’s best to make gentle changes, rather than go with spaghetti on the wall:
Generally, it’s best to evolve a UI with gentle changes rather than offer a totally fresh design. I thus strongly recommend getting the basic design right in the first place, before you launch, so that it can live for several years with minor updates. Before you release anything to customers, use techniques such as rapid iterative design and paper prototypes to thoroughly explore the design space and polish the usability.

Feverish Editing

I missed something that I’m attributing to fiendish cleverness when I first looked at Fever’s sharing preferences. It seems that Mr. Inman wants you to edit them:

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You can see it in the screen shot I took on my previous post, as well. It could be just random chance, as the folks that use those forms of social sharing are most likely to be the same people who buy Fever. But I’ll just have to stay with my supposition that he gave the subconscious cue to change the settings.