Alex around the World

I just started to read a book I recently bought about web project management: “Real Web Project Management: Case Studies and Best Practices from the Trenches” (Thomas J. Shelford & Gregory A. Remillard). This is not my first book on the subject and although I’m only on chapter 3, I can say that I agree [...]

Grande Anse des Salines, Martinique Originally uploaded by Shark Attacks. Here are some photos of our last trip to Martinique (French Antilles). Beautiful island, beautiful beaches, beautiful people. And their rum is great

Quoted from Lou Rosenfeld and Peter Morvile’s book entitled “Information Architecture for the World Wide Web” (O’Reilly, 2nd edition, 2002): [...]be aware of the challenges of organizing information on the Web. Language is ambiguous, content is heterogeneous, people have different perspectives, and politics can rearits ugly head. (Chapter 5: Organization Systems, p. 74) Of all [...]

I was reading Christina Wodtke’s book titled “Information Architecture: Blueprints for the Web” and caught the following excerpt: [...] thoughtful planning and well-designed Information Architecture improves Findability – Allowing customers to easily access those items they need, be they spatulas or term papers. Usability – Allwowing customers to wend their way to those items and [...]

By looking at the error message that was generated by Amazon when I was updating my contact info, I had the feeling that the website did not like the name of my country. In fact, this is an example of the details you need to pay attention to when you are managing a multilingual website, [...]