Be gone!!
Lorelle is asking everyone what they want gone from the web. This could be quite difficult, but beside the obvious, spammers, IE6, table based layouts, Javascript widgets etc, there is one thing that I want to die. I want SEO gone.
There is a lot of nonsense talked about SEO; either it is evil, or simple, [...]
Prominence for the uninitiated
For some time now I’ve had in mind a system for presenting prominence as an number. Prominence is often subjective; for those with a design eye it is generally clear what is most prominent, and why, but often decisions of prominence need to made, and signed off, by people who don’t have that eye. Equally [...]
Search Clustering better than Google?
Read / Write web have a review of Quitura, a clustering search engine. The idea is that by clustering related keywords you can discover related keywords without having to guess what terms others may have used. A discovery engine more than a search engine.
Quintura
While I certainly see the need for more relevant search I have [...]
Distributed Blog Search
Something I have had on my mind for a while now is the idea of de-centralising blog searches. A lot of bloggers have commented about the problems with Technorati providing poor results and this has prompted me to consider this in a little more depth.
The Problems
Before getting into the core of it I want to [...]
Where’d that page go?
A little while back I wrote about Self Organising Content, the process whereby a website organises its own content according to a set of pre-defined rules. One of the key concerns I had was that by moving links about repeat site visitors may become lost, frustrated, or even just leave the site all together. So [...]
Structured Data Sort
One of the most important tasks you do as a web designer is give order to information, more importantly an order that the person using the site either expects or can intuitively run with. Sometimes this means separating that information out into pages, sometimes that means writing client or server-side scripts to provide more choice, [...]