Yahoo Finance RSS Beta
March 25 2004
Here’s another link; Yahoo Finance RSS Beta (Jeremy Zawodny’s blog).
[EDIT] Should’ve checked the references first. Apparently the beta feed has been pulled and there’s no replacement.
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Archive for March 2004
RSS Stock Ticker
March 25 2004
I’ve been researching methods to monitor stocks from a webpage and wanted to reference this article, RSS Stock Ticker for later.
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Web design going in the wrong direction?
March 24 2004
This is the second time this week I’ve been directed to this article, Web design going in the wrong direction?: Signal vs. Noise Weblog / Blog (by 37signals) opening the discussion about web design and whether web designers are neglecting the end users for the sake of design.
This touches on issues that I’ve had in my mind of late, designing for the users and providing real value from websites as tools and as products. It seems to demand a designer always refer back to the fundamental questions: WHO am I designing for? WHAT will this product/tool be used for? WHY should the user utilize the product/tool over another? If a designer starts to lose sight to the answers to those questions then they start creeping into the realm of design for design’s sake - essentially design masturbation.
Tangent: The page also contained a link to this potentially useful project management tool. Should I continue in a design career, project management knowledge and tools not unlike this one will need to be evaluated in making my jobs more efficient.
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Newbies Beware! The Mailto: Myth
March 24 2004
Found alongside the last article, this one, isolani - Newbies Beware! The Mailto: Myth which elucidates why the forms on our work site result in so many calls for tech support.
This should be just the information to get that aspect fixed on my way out.
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Creating Structured Tables
March 24 2004
I originally ran across this link isolani - Creating Structured Tables months ago through my link surfing. It discusses how to use table tags to logically structure data matrices. I absorbed it enough to ascertain its significance but didn’t reference it anywhere. Then I forgot about it until I was working on my last design project and realized that structured tables would be very helpful for a pricing matrix. Sadly, I couldn’t make my way back to the link and had to use a similar - though not as clear - reference.
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Boxes and Arrows: Planning your future
March 17 2004
Considering the turns my life has taken in the past few years, some sort of long term planning would help direct my activities and also keep me from feeling so adrift. So it was nice to stumble across this helpful link, Boxes and Arrows: Planning your future which offers a template for working on a 5-year plan.
It sounds so communist I know but I’ve found it very productive to elucidate goals to myself at least. Sometimes things that I thought I knew take a different turn when I actually put it down on paper. It becomes harder to fool myself.
Maybe I’ll work on this next weekend.
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