mashable.com
MAY 28, 2010
Anyone who has sat stymied with their cursor blinking in a “username” field knows that coming up with a name is harder than you’d think. We talked to bloggers, social media gurus, linguists and naming experts (yes, they exist!) to get the scoop on finding a name that will work on the web. How Do I Start? Ask yourself: 2.
uxdesign.smashingmagazine.com
NOVEMBER 17, 2011
They can be positive (such as indicating that the form was submitted successfully) or negative (“The user name you have selected is already taken”). Base the name of the form on its purpose. That name will inform users what the form is about and why they should fill it in. Skype ’s registration form contains all six components.
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mobile.smashingmagazine.com
JANUARY 16, 2013
The diagram for a fictitious bank website shows two questionable items, namely the staff list and the Karaoke video. When computers first gained graphical user interfaces, software engineers helped people make the transition from physical offices to digital files with the metaphor of a desktop. Your name *. Your email *.
blog.expensify.com
APRIL 24, 2012
Full discloure, I am a former PHP, Perl, ColdFusion, ActionScript, VB.NET, ASP.NET and C# developer. You can develop web.apps in assembly language if you insist, but it’ll take 10 times more time and money than doing it with.net, php, ror or other modern languages and you’ll have 10 times more bugs to deal with.
www.quora.com
JANUARY 16, 2011
I do disagree about two other points: First, this isn't the "quora rockstar engineer" perspective. It's my perspective as well and I'm not a software engineer let alone a rockstar. When Zuckerberg started Thefacebook.com he was a PHP coder (translation: not a real developer).
sivers.org
JUNE 25, 2010
Each document has a from-language, to-language, and a name. For example: in my translation site story, above, the first milestone might be just a plain ugly web page where a company can create an account, create a new project, then upload named documents into that project. The system counts how many words are in each document.
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