Keep things simple

More and more I see websites that you have to dig for information. You click a button that’s clearly named to give you the hope of more information,and you end up on another general page which doesn’t have what you’re looking for,

So you click again,and the same thing happens.

Rinse and repeat.

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Why you shouldn’t use Facebook for personal stuff

I wrote this email to some friends about Facebook versus a personal password-protected website for photos and personal stuff. Thought it might be of use to others

Just wanted to write some things about Facebook.

First,putting photos onto Facebook is really dangerous as it regularly changes security settings without telling anyone. In the . . . →Read More:Why you shouldn’t use Facebook for personal stuff

On Online Help

In the 1980s (or thereabouts) user manuals started to be made available on the computer in a way that it was easy to access. A pretty accurate history of this phenomena can be found here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_help

Soon,tools sprang up to make the job of the people writing the documentation easier. Products such as Robohelp, . . . →Read More:On Online Help