One Minute Guide to Usability

SEO Friendly Web Design on Squidoo

Posted a new lens today on Squidoo, a user generated content site. The focus of this page is to spread the knowledge of web standards and its effect on search engine optimization - SEO. Clean code in your web design is a major factor in how the search engines view your web site from both a relevance standpoint and user experience.

gOS Rocket - Good Desktop Design on the Cheap

One downside of using desktop Linux has always been the so-so user experience. gOS, a free linux operating system similar to Windows Vista and Mac OS X, aims to bring better design and a better user experience to the linux desktop. gOS also comes installed on cheap $200 PCs at Walmart. Since the gOS demands little from your PCs hardware, it can be installed on older machines with a slower processor and a few gigs of hard drive space.



gOS integrates Web 2.0 applications into the core of the desktop. This is done elegantly, with a "Mac OS X like" user interface design. With this latest effort by gOS, linux is getting closer and closer to becoming a mainstream desktop. I plan on using the new OS at home and look forward to more great things from the gOS team!

Web Site Re-designs

I'm hoping to have a new design of interactive cleveland in the next few months. I'm thinking that Lavadasites should have an entirely new purpose as well as a new look and feel. Some ideas around the purpose of the site are still in the works. My philosophy on Lavadasites has always been to create a central location where early adopters can share sites with unique products and a great user experience. Built into the site will be viral marketing and word of mouth tools. I hope to have a more defined concept around these ideas soon.