September 2009
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Search Analytics Triple Issue
September 22, 2009
In Issue No. 292 of A List Apart, “for people who make websites,” we present Avinash Kaushik on internal site search analysis; Lou Rosenfeld on site search analytics from the bottom up; and John Ferrara on new tools to test search for relevancy and precision. Join the search party!
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ALA 291: HTML5, working with web forms
September 1, 2009
In Issue No. 291 of A List Apart, for people who make websites — Ready or not, here it comes. Despite the confusion surrounding its evolution, real-world HTML 5 is right around the corner. Longtime ALA contributor J. David Eisenberg returns to get us all up to speed on the markup we’re about to be writing. Plus: Web forms don’t have to be irritating, and your inline validation choices don’t have to be based on wild guesses. In his examination of inline form validation options, Luke Wroblewski offers that rarest of beasts: actual data about which things make people smile and which make them want to stab your website with a fork.