Archive for February 16th, 2007

Update Completed »

By Web Design Services Team on Feb 16, 2007 in Web Design | Comments Off

As mentioned previously on this blog and elsewhere, we have currently been undergoing a site overhaul on the main Compuskills website.
This has now been (successfully) completed and the site has gone live a few hours ahead of schedule. This also means that the testbed site is no longer functional.
Thank you for your patience.
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What is usability? »

By Web Design Services Team on Feb 16, 2007 in Frequently Asked Questions, Web Design | Comments Off

What is usability? Everyone agrees that web pages should be easy to use. However, defining usability is something of a battleground. There seem to be as many definitions as there are usability gurus. Some generally useful ideas from the mass of usability material include: Don’t make users scroll sideways to get crucial information. Don’t [...]

Update Progress »

By Web Design Services Team on Feb 16, 2007 in General, Web Design | 2 Comments

As mentioned last week, the Compuskills site has undergone a bit of a makeover, with considerable changes to the backend (the server side PHP) which should make it easier for future maintenance to take place.
Everything has progressed well, (you can see the development in progress on the testbed site) and it looks like the deadline [...]