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You're checking out on an e-commerce site. You click Submit, and the page reloads with an error message at the top: "There were errors in your submission." That's it. No indication of which fields have problems. No explanation of what's wrong. You start hunting through the form, checking each field, trying to figure out what went wrong.
This frustrating experience is unfortunately common, especially on e-commerce sites, membership portals, and complex forms. But it's also completely avoidable - and fixing it makes your site accessible and more usable for everyone.
As we start developing mini-products to offer to our clients, we've found we actually need to group multiple products under one purchase.
If you’re not a website developer, it’s hard to know what works and what doesn’t work on a website. You can get all the right information onto the pages, but how do you know if a visitor will be able to navigate smoothly to the information they need? How do you know if the site is pleasing enough for them to stay on and click through?
Picture this:
People who know me know I can get stubborn when I get sold on a particular technology. For the past year, my favorite is Matrix, a distributed chat system that addresses pretty much everything anyone wants from a messaging system. The only catch? Not that many "regular people" are using it yet.
Hey, that's not what I was thinking!
That's a very common complaint customers have with developers, when they receive the result of weeks or months of hard work. And it indicates a failure of planning.
The Linux Link Tech Show (TLLTS) has a great segment dissecting the criticisms/wild flames put forth on a series of shows on the TWIT network. Wanted to add a couple comments missing from their discussion.
I started writing a response to a discussion in the latest "Linux Link Tech Show" episode, but ended up with something far too long, so I've split it up into 4 posts.
What's extraordinary about the open source community is that this level of support happens all the time, every day, without charge, in hundreds, thousands of projects out there.
Over at Freelock Computing, we're learning the fundamentals of business from experience. We've been doing technology for a long time, but are relatively new to business, so what we've learned is hardly innovative or new.
