Hi, I hope this is the correct place to post this. I watch the CSS-Tricks tutorials quite a bit and I'm majoring in Web Development. I'm taking a research class and I have to do some research related to my field as my final project. I'm drawing a blank. I was wondering if anyone here has any interesting ideas. It's not expected to be really complicated research, just something to provide an exercise in research, like a survey or doing interviews and examining the results. I was thinking maybe some sort of research in usability, which layouts people prefer, but I haven't quite gotten to how I could execute that without it taking tons of time. Maybe as another idea I was thinking if developers prefer to even consider IE6 anymore..? I think that's been talked about quite a bit already though. Any ideas? I'd appreciate the help. I have researchers block or something.
Deleted duplicate of this post Do some research into online tools used for research?? Not even Microsoft consider IE6 anymore, some devs are forced to though
In fact, I believe Microsoft announced they are doing away with IE6 in standard updates for (almost) all machines that have it...I sure as hell am not going to waste my time with IE6, honestly, I could build out 3 sites before figuring out all the issues that IE6 can cause.
Ohh good idea with the heat maps. I could do a free trial at clickdensity maybe. Thanks so much. This is all helping. I didn't know Microsoft gave up on IE6 too.
I think it'd make an interesting research project to see how many developers truly strive to make the websites they build accessible. I've been designing websites for a good few years now and always claimed they were accessible, but I recently started a new job at an online university and after using screen-readers and other accessibility tools first-hand it's made me realize how inaccessible other sites I've made are.
I hope this is the correct place to post this. I watch the CSS-Tricks tutorials quite a bit and I'm majoring in Web Development. I'm taking a research class and I have to do some research related to my field as my final project. I'm drawing a blank. I was wondering if anyone here has any interesting ideas. It's not expected to be really complicated research, just something to provide an exercise in research, like a survey or doing interviews and examining the results.
I was thinking maybe some sort of research in usability, which layouts people prefer, but I haven't quite gotten to how I could execute that without it taking tons of time.
Maybe as another idea I was thinking if developers prefer to even consider IE6 anymore..? I think that's been talked about quite a bit already though.
Any ideas? I'd appreciate the help. I have researchers block or something.
Do some research into online tools used for research??
Not even Microsoft consider IE6 anymore, some devs are forced to though
http://usabilla.com/
http://www.clickdensity.com/
maybe there's a professor on campus who has one of those eye tracking devices, so you can run your own tests.
never tried any of them though