Category Archives: Web

Creative Pitches – An Unpaid Necessity?

Andy Budd has done a thought provoking post covering the advantages and disadvantages of creative pitches to potential clients and whether they should be chargeable. Certainly in the current market it is expected that creative pitches should include examples of work potential ideas and the cost should be consumed by the agency.

Eye Tracking Heatmaps

Etra, the usability and accessibility experts, are currently publishing their eye tracking heat maps for some very well known UK sites. Eye tracking is a system involving cameras following eye movement of users browsing websites. These sorts of tests are useful for indicating user trends on your websites literally recording what users look at and crucially what they miss. Eye tracking results are displayed as a heat map indicating the areas covered on a scale from light green to bright red being the strongest focus.

Internet Explorer 7: Layout Complete

With the latest beta release of Internet Explorer 7 beta, it has been announced that the layout is now complete and it would appear very unlikely that there would be any more development on this part of the browser until after the official release.

“….we are now layout complete with the release of the MIX build – we don’t plan to add more layout features or drastically change layout behaviour.”