Blog: Design And Usability

We've completed four sample video documentation pieces for common user tasks on Drupal / CivicSpace based websites. The four videos cover:

1. Login to a Drupal/CivicSpace powered website
2. Create a story
3. Create a personal blog entry
4. Add an image to a post with HTMLArea

We've worked hard to get NextBillion.net up and running. For this post
I want to feature the user profile page customizations. If you go to
www.nextbillion.net/profile you can see the user profiles listing. If
you are signed into the site you will see private messenger and
add-to-buddylist on this listing to let you quickly contact another
user. A partial inspiration for this work are the profile pages over
here at
http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/francisraven which is based on
zope/plone, for example. In Drupal, I like the way you can tab over to
the 'track' tab to see latest posts, and then identify the type of post
and awaiting comments in the table view of the tracker module. Check
it out here: http://www.nextbillion.net/user/17. With 'track' data in
a tab (default display in 4.5), it keeps the main profile page nice and
tidy as compared to the digitaldivide.net example.

Cool little game to test you knowledge of what font is what at font fetish http://www.p11.com/fontfetish/

Great latin text generator for designer making mockups: http://www.designerstoolbox.com/index.php?lorem=li

Do you like our new fav icon(the little graphic that appears up in the address bar of your browser) Omar Bickell from http://omarzblog.gnuvernment.org/ designed it for us...
Thank you Omar.

Former NBA star Dennis Rodman appears completely nude in a celebrity anti-fur ad by PETA. If you are not up on PETA's advertising you should check out their sites. They are really well done. and very compelling. Most of all they get the job done and the organization really shows results...