Date: 08/02/06 (WebDesign)    Keywords: web

Yo homies,

This article may not contain "news" to you, but I thought I'd post it anyway as 411. Jakob Nielsen, for those unfamiliar with him, is an excellent website usability expertwho publishes a regular article on the topic called Alertbox. In his articles and research, he focuses on fairly nuts-and-bolts stuff with respect to page layout, content management and copywriting for the web. I've always found it an interesting read and quite informative. And he always backs up his research with sound data and analysis, too.

The article in question is linked here, with the following synopsis: Optimize Web pages for 1024x768, but use a liquid layout that stretches well for any resolution, from 800x600 to 1280x1024.

In a mainly unrelated vein, I've always thought this guy was very homely yet seemingly, curiously proud of it. He's the one on the left in my icon there, posing with co-author Hoa Loranger, and his bio page links to a hilarious set of high-res photos for download, where a note from probably circa 1998 reads, "Warning: most of the large photos are several hundred kilobytes to download." So cute... By the way, if anyone can hip me to how he developed that über-sophisticated website design he employs for his home page, I'd love to know...

(Okay, now I'm just being catty... His appearance really has nothing to do with how well he writes about and studies web usability. It's just that that photo page really cracks me up...)

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1146426.html