Many opine on HTML form layout best practices. Few back up those opinions. Thankfully, someone finally did with a great eye-tracking study for HTML form layout. Their goal was to figure out where people are focusing their attention. If users getting caught up on design element that not only attracts limited attention spans but actually [...]
Filed under: Best Practices, Interface Design, Research, User Experience, Web Business on June 17th, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Imagine being able to move objects with only your thoughts. Simply thinking a thought, and then an object does your bidding. For many humans struck with paralysis such as Lou Gehrig Disease or Locked In Syndrome, this isn’t only a sci-fi pipe dream, but a much hoped reality. Now it is a reality. Watch this [...]
Filed under: Accessibility, Emerging Technology, Interface Design, Research, Usability on November 5th, 2008 | No Comments »
The Sherpa! team recently released a big improvement to one our client’s partner/reseller portals — Lexicon Technologies. According to the press release, the update allows Lexicon’s partners to “powerfully, yet simply, manage all of the barcode scanner, printer, and enterprise mobility assets in use anywhere in their organization, via the Repair Engine™ online portal.” This [...]
Filed under: Behind the Scenes, Indirect Channel Marketing, Interface Design, Partner Portals on October 29th, 2008 | No Comments »
A competitor to Google has entered the stage. The new entrant is Cuil (pronounced COOL). As their press release states, Cuil provides organized and relevant results based on Web page content analysis. The search engine goes beyond today’s search techniques of link analysis and traffic ranking to analyze the context of each page and the [...]
Filed under: Emerging Technology, Interface Design, Marketing Strategy, Pay Per Click, Search, SEM, SEO, Web Business on July 29th, 2008 | No Comments »
After years of the rather defined rule that use of Fash equates to search engine optimization death, Google has figured out how to crawl flash content. Sorta. Mostly. Not really. How Google Crawls Flash The technologist in me asks: how did they do this? Apparently, Google (and Yahoo) had a little help from Adobe. “Adobe [...]
Filed under: Emerging Technology, Interface Design, SEM, SEO, Web Business on July 1st, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Atlanta, GA – (June 21, 2008) – Sherpa! Web Studios, Atlanta’s leading digital experience marketing firm (sherpawebstudios.com), proudly announces the launch of Cbeyond® PartnerAccess — the new website portal for Cbeyond’s partners and resellers. Cbeyond PartnerAccess (cbeyondpartners.net) enables partners to maximize their partnership with Cbeyond by more effectively managing their customer accounts. Partners can use [...]
Filed under: Accessibility, Announcements, Atlanta Web Design, Behind the Scenes, Information Architecture, Interface Design, Marketing Strategy, Press Releases, User Experience, Web Business, Web Design on June 22nd, 2008 | No Comments »
One of our clients, Cbeyond, recently shared a success story with us. The internal team that worked on the recent Cbeyond PartnerAccess project received a prestigious internal team award for ” demonstrating operational excellence on a major initiative with significant impact to the company.” And it was well deserved. Cbeyond PartnerAccess is Cbeyond’s indirect sales [...]
Filed under: Announcements, Atlanta Web Design, Behind the Scenes, Information Architecture, Interface Design, Press Releases, User Experience, Web Business on May 7th, 2008 | No Comments »
First, let’s get the important stuff out of the way — Starbucks is offering free ground coffee samples. Now, the web stuff. Take a look at the StarbucksCoffeeAtHome.com website. Now take a closer look. Look at the details that make this such a vivid experience. The use of a chalk board, consistent with Starbuck’s use [...]
Filed under: Emerging Technology, Interface Design, Viral Marketing on April 7th, 2008 | No Comments »
First there was Kindle, Amazon’s eReader. Now we have Readius — a mobile phone/eReader hybrid. The difference, and it’s a mighty one, is that Readius uses ePaper’s inherent ability to fold and bend to expand out to 5 full inches of display. That’s quite a 43% increase from one of the largest displays — 3.5 [...]
Filed under: Emerging Technology, Interface Design, User Experience, Web Business on January 22nd, 2008 | No Comments »
