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The Art of Selection – From Dropdown Menus to Perception
Have you ever thought about whether you’d rather select something via a dropdown menu or a +/- option? Probably not. But each method comes with strange limitations. Their usage almost feels like an extension of our sense of touch—through mouse clicks and touchscreens. The way we choose things often depends on our personal habits: Are you more of an “Everything Everywhere All at once” type, absorbing everything at once? Or do you prefer a step-by-step iteration process? Our senses strongly influence our behavior. We smell, taste, hear, see, and touch—and we get touched. But what do we prioritize? A moment… Read more
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Marking clicked links as visited
Linking the web is THE best practice in the World Wide Web. Users are visiting any content. And in a sort of magical ability of remembrance, the link is marked in a specific color on any webpage where a link is placed to this specific visited URL. The ability to do so is given to developers by the :visited pseudo class all around HTML. This was pretty much default until, now (note the date of this article). This magical kind of remembering visited webpages is no longer enabled within the Google Chrome Browser. Presumably, other browsers will follow. Chrome changed… Read more
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With love
Being a native in the WorldWideWeb (www.) doesn’t only come with learning some programming, it also comes with some writing. Depending on the purpose of your website, blog or social media, there are various kinds of promoting content. It might be useful to summarize the key points and turn it into a hashtag. Which IMHO is a good choice if you are less dependent on semantics and want to push a message forward. For example, #democracy just tells your reader that you are in favor of democracy, but nothing more. So anyone who is searching for the hashtag democracy will… Read more
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The Art of Selection – From Dropdown Menus to Perception
Have you ever thought about whether you’d rather select something via a dropdown menu or a +/- option? Probably not. But each method comes with strange limitations. Their usage almost feels like an extension of our sense of touch—through mouse clicks and touchscreens. The way we choose things often depends on our personal habits: Are you more of an “Everything Everywhere All at once” type, absorbing everything at once? Or do you prefer a step-by-step iteration process? Our senses strongly influence our behavior. We smell, taste, hear, see, and touch—and we get touched. But what do we prioritize? A moment… Read more
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Marking clicked links as visited
Linking the web is THE best practice in the World Wide Web. Users are visiting any content. And in a sort of magical ability of remembrance, the link is marked in a specific color on any webpage where a link is placed to this specific visited URL. The ability to do so is given to developers by the :visited pseudo class all around HTML. This was pretty much default until, now (note the date of this article). This magical kind of remembering visited webpages is no longer enabled within the Google Chrome Browser. Presumably, other browsers will follow. Chrome changed… Read more
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With love
Being a native in the WorldWideWeb (www.) doesn’t only come with learning some programming, it also comes with some writing. Depending on the purpose of your website, blog or social media, there are various kinds of promoting content. It might be useful to summarize the key points and turn it into a hashtag. Which IMHO is a good choice if you are less dependent on semantics and want to push a message forward. For example, #democracy just tells your reader that you are in favor of democracy, but nothing more. So anyone who is searching for the hashtag democracy will… Read more