Christian Heilmann

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icant.co.uk redesign done

Monday, March 21st, 2005

It’s done! icant.co.uk is up and live with the new design and layout. While I will write some words why and how the redesign was done, I’d be grateful for any feedback.

Icant.co.uk redesign in the making

Thursday, March 17th, 2005

I am redesigning my articles web site right now, realising that I practise bad usability and did it more for me than for you guys (nobody cares where I published the articles, what they are is important). Activate the thumbnail to get a preview of what it will look like:
icant.co.uk redesign thumbnail

Spring is here!

Thursday, March 17th, 2005

And I am happy. Also, I won the Pink Panther DVD collection on ebay and it just arrived. Movies tonight!

Fixing JavaScript memory leaks

Wednesday, March 16th, 2005

Keith Gaugan has come up with a nice script that prevents event handling in JavaScript from causing memory leaks. I’ll give it a spin soon, so far it looks like a good idea to implement.

Nielsen speaks out about lower literacy

Tuesday, March 15th, 2005

Jakob Nielsen much loved/hated usability expert speaks in his latest alertbox about low-literacy users and what we have to think about when trying to accommodate our content for them. Much more interesting read than the 1314th tutorial on why skip links are a great idea.