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CAPTCHA: Form Usability Nemesis
If you’ve completed a web form in the last ten years, you would have come across a CAPTCHA system. CAPTCHA is an acronym for Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart. The basic role of a CAPTCHA system is to prevent bots from spamming the recipient by displaying distorted images to [...]
Multiple Signatures Using Google Gmail
If you have a Gmail account and use it for both personal and professional purposes, you may have needed signatures for each. Unfortunately, Gmail doesn’t have the ability to create multiple email signatures like Outlook or other clients do. In my searches, I came across a method that uses the Greasemonkey add-on for Firefox. I’ve [...]
Twitter Is A Fad… Wait No It Isn’t!
I’ve been thinking about what to write about in my next post and started another topic that I may look at later, but decided to address the on-going discussion about whether or not Twitter is a fad or whether it isn’t. It seems that in personal conversations and online discussions lately, its come up about [...]
College Given E-Mail Addresses
There has been discussion at our institution about disbanded the practice of giving students e-mail addresses with the college domain. Some of the reasons motivating the discussion stem from the difficulty in maintaining these various accounts as we are a 2 year college, students come and go quite frequently. Also, in all reality, students are [...]
Google Web Site Optimizer Tool: Another Tool for the Web Developer’s Utility Belt
I came across an article called “Google Web Site Optimizer Tool: I Told You So” on Sitepoint.com that talked about a new tool from Google called the Web Site Optimizer Tool. You will need a Google Gmail account – but I imagine that you have a Gmail account already, if not, what are you waiting [...]