This document summarizes common website project blunders and how to avoid them. It discusses classic blunders like lacking a business case, having unrealistic expectations, and an insufficient schedule. It also covers blunders like absent leadership, communication breakdowns, and ignoring risks. The document recommends following a defined process with stakeholder involvement, user research, and aligning the project with organizational goals and available resources. It provides an overview of a project process including definition, discovery and planning, production, and post-launch phases. The goal is to help people avoid blunders that can doom website projects from the start.
We will take you through DesignHammer’s recent, two part, newsletter creation process from start to finish. First, we’ll share ideas for simple, sustainable, and scalable processes for content generation. Then, we will give a brief overview of email marketing tools currently in the marketplace. Finally, we’ll discuss our experience using MailChimp. This will include some of MailChimp’s technical features, which can aid in reaching your desired audience.
Successful Project Estimation: How to Get Your Weekends BackDesignHammer
Do inaccurate estimates frequently lead to you and your team burning the midnight oil or working through your weekends to meet project deadlines? Our team takes both meeting project deadlines and work-life balance seriously and we have developed a system to both accurately estimate projects and manage our team’s capacity to make weekend work the exception rather than the rule.
Get It Right the First Time Through Cheap and Easy DIY Usability Testing - Dr...DesignHammer
“If you want a great site, you’ve got to test.” - Steve Krug, Usability Expert
At it’s most basic, usability is about insuring something, such as a website, works well. Without usability testing results, design and functionality decisions are based on opinion. Despite the understood importance, many organizations believe usability testing is too expensive and time consuming to fit their budget and schedule. We will show how usability tests can be performed both quickly and inexpensively using popular DIY usability techniques. We will cover both analog and online tools for user surveys, card sorting, tree testing, first click testing, and user testing. You don’t need a lot of participants either—many valuable tests may be performed with as few as five subjects.
Takeaways:
What is usability testing?
What, when, and who to test?
List of free and/or inexpensive usability tools
How to plan and run your own usability test?
What to do with the data when you are done?
How to take the stress out of writing case studiesDesignHammer
Case studies are great sales tools. But how many times have you gotten ready to submit a pitch, and realized you were missing case studies for the projects you want to highlight? You assumed somebody on the team would write one after the projected deployed, but everyone got reassigned to other projects, and it slipped through the cracks, again. And now you are sad. But it doesn’t have to be this way.
Learn why we draft our project case studies before writing the first line of code, and how the team uses the case study draft as a quality assurance step to help ensure a successful project outcome.
Website Redesign in Drupal: are you planning to succeed or succeeding to fail...DesignHammer
Are you currently using, or considering Drupal? Whether you are looking to develop an organization's initial website or upgrade an existing one, managing a website development project can be a daunting task, especially if your organization lacks internal website design and development expertise. Drupal provides an extremely flexible platform, but determining an appropriate approach to best fit your organization's needs and budget often involves navigating the benefits and costs of different providers, approaches, and technologies.
How to Use Website Strategy to Rise to New HeightsDesignHammer
Through years of experience working with clients developing websites to overcome organizational obstacles we have refined a process for gathering critical information. By determining what the website needs to do, we can design a blueprint to build a website with measurable success.
Have you or your nonprofit fallen victim to one of the classic website blunders? Was it organization by board member, stock photo syndrome, design by committee, vanishing volunteer web developer, or something else? We will discuss 10 classic website blunders we have witnessed that rendered potentially successful projects ineffective engagement tools, and tell you how to avoid them.
Have you or your organization fallen victim to one of the classic website blunders? Was it organization by board member, stock photo syndrome, design by committee, vanishing volunteer web developer, or something else? We will discuss 10 classic website blunders we have witnessed that rendered potentially successful projects ineffective engagement tools, and tell you how to avoid them.
We will take you through DesignHammer’s recent, two part, newsletter creation process from start to finish. First, we’ll share ideas for simple, sustainable, and scalable processes for content generation. Then, we will give a brief overview of email marketing tools currently in the marketplace. Finally, we’ll discuss our experience using MailChimp. This will include some of MailChimp’s technical features, which can aid in reaching your desired audience.
Successful Project Estimation: How to Get Your Weekends BackDesignHammer
Do inaccurate estimates frequently lead to you and your team burning the midnight oil or working through your weekends to meet project deadlines? Our team takes both meeting project deadlines and work-life balance seriously and we have developed a system to both accurately estimate projects and manage our team’s capacity to make weekend work the exception rather than the rule.
Get It Right the First Time Through Cheap and Easy DIY Usability Testing - Dr...DesignHammer
“If you want a great site, you’ve got to test.” - Steve Krug, Usability Expert
At it’s most basic, usability is about insuring something, such as a website, works well. Without usability testing results, design and functionality decisions are based on opinion. Despite the understood importance, many organizations believe usability testing is too expensive and time consuming to fit their budget and schedule. We will show how usability tests can be performed both quickly and inexpensively using popular DIY usability techniques. We will cover both analog and online tools for user surveys, card sorting, tree testing, first click testing, and user testing. You don’t need a lot of participants either—many valuable tests may be performed with as few as five subjects.
Takeaways:
What is usability testing?
What, when, and who to test?
List of free and/or inexpensive usability tools
How to plan and run your own usability test?
What to do with the data when you are done?
How to take the stress out of writing case studiesDesignHammer
Case studies are great sales tools. But how many times have you gotten ready to submit a pitch, and realized you were missing case studies for the projects you want to highlight? You assumed somebody on the team would write one after the projected deployed, but everyone got reassigned to other projects, and it slipped through the cracks, again. And now you are sad. But it doesn’t have to be this way.
Learn why we draft our project case studies before writing the first line of code, and how the team uses the case study draft as a quality assurance step to help ensure a successful project outcome.
Website Redesign in Drupal: are you planning to succeed or succeeding to fail...DesignHammer
Are you currently using, or considering Drupal? Whether you are looking to develop an organization's initial website or upgrade an existing one, managing a website development project can be a daunting task, especially if your organization lacks internal website design and development expertise. Drupal provides an extremely flexible platform, but determining an appropriate approach to best fit your organization's needs and budget often involves navigating the benefits and costs of different providers, approaches, and technologies.
How to Use Website Strategy to Rise to New HeightsDesignHammer
Through years of experience working with clients developing websites to overcome organizational obstacles we have refined a process for gathering critical information. By determining what the website needs to do, we can design a blueprint to build a website with measurable success.
Have you or your nonprofit fallen victim to one of the classic website blunders? Was it organization by board member, stock photo syndrome, design by committee, vanishing volunteer web developer, or something else? We will discuss 10 classic website blunders we have witnessed that rendered potentially successful projects ineffective engagement tools, and tell you how to avoid them.
Have you or your organization fallen victim to one of the classic website blunders? Was it organization by board member, stock photo syndrome, design by committee, vanishing volunteer web developer, or something else? We will discuss 10 classic website blunders we have witnessed that rendered potentially successful projects ineffective engagement tools, and tell you how to avoid them.
Have you or your organization fallen victim to one of the classic website blunders? Was it organization by board member, stock photo syndrome, design by committee, vanishing volunteer web developer, or something else? We will discuss 10 classic website blunders we have witnessed that rendered potentially successful projects ineffective engagement tools, and tell you how to avoid them.
How to take the stress out of writing case studiesDesignHammer
Case studies are great sales tools. But how many times have you gotten ready to submit a pitch, and realized you were missing case studies for the projects you want to highlight? You assumed somebody on the team would write one after the projected deployed, but everyone got reassigned to other projects, and it slipped through the cracks, again. And now you are sad. But it doesn’t have to be this way.
Learn why we draft our project case studies before writing the first line of code, and how the team uses the case study draft as a quality assurance step to help ensure a successful project outcome.
Website Redesign: Are you planning to succeed or succeeding to fail? It all s...DesignHammer
Don’t let planning your next website project become a full-time second job. Join us for a fresh look at the planning, RFP writing, and hiring process. We’ll provide a “from the trenches” look at common points of failure and provide tactics for avoiding them through guidelines, tips, case studies, and role-play.
During this session attendees will learn:
how to plan a successful website project
how to prepare an appropriate RFP
how to select appropriate internal resources and/or external vendors
Session Twitter Handle: #DMFBRFP
Adopt & Adapt: A Faster Path to Experience Governance & StandardsSusan Price
Changing an organization's culture to one centered on Customers or Human Experience is a big job -- don't start from scratch! We share several free frameworks, resources, content libraries, and repositories that you can adopt, and adapt to your needs.
Delivered at Big Design 2021 by Susan Price, CEO of Firecat Studio, and Louise Craig Experience Architct for the City of San Antonio.
ІГОР РЕХМАН "Project discovery tips and recommendations"Dakiry
чому потрібно проводити project discovery phase;
без яких артефактів project discovery не можна вважати завершеним;
які фактори є вирішальними для успішного project discovery;
рекомендації бізнес аналітикам: на що варто звертати увагу? чого варто уникати?
Managing international software projects interactively using scrumPeter Horsten
Too many projects are not (fully) successful. In many cases this is caused by issues in the management approach. Clients want to know what they get for a fixed budget. But we all know it's almost impossible to fully specify what you need.
An Agile software approach proved to work for us. After implementing Scrum our projects went more smooth and we were more often delivering the right results on time.
It took time to get this working. For developers it was a bit scary and for our clients it meant they really had to trust us. Today we can see our effort pays off. We wouldn't like to go back to waterfall times anymore.
Claire Brawdy recently delivered a presentation titled "Design Thinking for KM Strategy & Roadmapping," at the KMI Showcase held in Tysons Corner, Virginia. The presentation delved into how KM practitioners can and should be leveraging Design Thinking to develop a human-centered approach to knowledge management. Brawdy discussed the Design Thinking methodology, and shared real-world examples of how to leverage this approach to understand end users, define and prioritize KM solutions, and translate that into a KM roadmap to mature knowledge management within any organization.
KM'ing Your Content - Best Practices for Effective Content Strategy and Manag...Enterprise Knowledge
EK's Chris Marino recently presented at the annual KM Showcase in Tysons Corner, VA. His presentation, “KM’ing your Content”, provided a glimpse into the common challenges related to the content an organization generates - Findability, Relevancy, Redundancy, Complexity, and Consistency. To meet these challenges, he focused on a variety of high value, yet easily implemented techniques that can provide organizations with findable, shareable, useable content.
LSCTIG 2015 Session Materials - Are you agile ?
Agile can make projects more visible, more focused on delivering value, and more responsive to ever-changing needs. Learn what Agile is and how Illinois Legal Aid Online and Legal Services Corporation are using two of the most popular Agile frameworks to better manage teams and projects, improve quality, and deliver solutions that meet user needs. We'll also demo free and low-cost Agile tools for managing Agile projects.
Webinar: Remote Learning - How to Brainstorm Lean Six Sigma Improvement IdeasGoLeanSixSigma.com
Group Brainstorming has been debunked by countless studies, but including others in problem solving is essential. How do we address this paradox?
The science supports a completely different, and much better approach to coming up with solutions. Join us for this 1-hour webinar where we walk you through a new way to get more ideas, better solutions and essential group engagement in a remote world.
Project management tools often are adopted and dropped because they are put in place without a connected project management system to make them useful.
Why Content Projects Fail - Deane Barker - Presentation at eZ Conference 2017eZ Systems
Deane Barker, Chief Strategy Officer at Blend Interactive spoke at eZ Conference 2017 on Why Content Projects Fail. Deane discussed 5 reasons for why content projects fail, and what we can do to prevent it. From the case study syndrome to development myopia and more, Deane highlights the areas of failure for content projects. And then goes over practical ways to overcome these failure to achieve success.
Twelve Risks to Enterprise Software Projects—And What to Do about ThemTechWell
Every large software project is unique—each with its own complex array of challenges. When projects get into trouble, however, they often exhibit similar patterns, and succumb to risks that could have been anticipated and prevented—or detected sooner and managed better. Common responses to the problems—blaming, deferring action, or outright denial—only make things worse. Payson Hall reviews a dozen patterns he has observed over and over again on troubled projects during his thirty-year career: trouble with subcontractors, challenges with project sponsors, friction within the team, perils of interfacing with adjacent systems, issues with data cleansing and conversion, and more. Payson shares the tools he uses to help identify the symptoms of common risks, reduce the likelihood of risks occurring, facilitate early detection of problems, and establish a foundation for helpful responses when problems arise. This session is designed for project managers, team leaders, project sponsors, and anyone responsible for building or rolling out large enterprise systems.
Have you or your organization fallen victim to one of the classic website blunders? Was it organization by board member, stock photo syndrome, design by committee, vanishing volunteer web developer, or something else? We will discuss 10 classic website blunders we have witnessed that rendered potentially successful projects ineffective engagement tools, and tell you how to avoid them.
How to take the stress out of writing case studiesDesignHammer
Case studies are great sales tools. But how many times have you gotten ready to submit a pitch, and realized you were missing case studies for the projects you want to highlight? You assumed somebody on the team would write one after the projected deployed, but everyone got reassigned to other projects, and it slipped through the cracks, again. And now you are sad. But it doesn’t have to be this way.
Learn why we draft our project case studies before writing the first line of code, and how the team uses the case study draft as a quality assurance step to help ensure a successful project outcome.
Website Redesign: Are you planning to succeed or succeeding to fail? It all s...DesignHammer
Don’t let planning your next website project become a full-time second job. Join us for a fresh look at the planning, RFP writing, and hiring process. We’ll provide a “from the trenches” look at common points of failure and provide tactics for avoiding them through guidelines, tips, case studies, and role-play.
During this session attendees will learn:
how to plan a successful website project
how to prepare an appropriate RFP
how to select appropriate internal resources and/or external vendors
Session Twitter Handle: #DMFBRFP
Adopt & Adapt: A Faster Path to Experience Governance & StandardsSusan Price
Changing an organization's culture to one centered on Customers or Human Experience is a big job -- don't start from scratch! We share several free frameworks, resources, content libraries, and repositories that you can adopt, and adapt to your needs.
Delivered at Big Design 2021 by Susan Price, CEO of Firecat Studio, and Louise Craig Experience Architct for the City of San Antonio.
ІГОР РЕХМАН "Project discovery tips and recommendations"Dakiry
чому потрібно проводити project discovery phase;
без яких артефактів project discovery не можна вважати завершеним;
які фактори є вирішальними для успішного project discovery;
рекомендації бізнес аналітикам: на що варто звертати увагу? чого варто уникати?
Managing international software projects interactively using scrumPeter Horsten
Too many projects are not (fully) successful. In many cases this is caused by issues in the management approach. Clients want to know what they get for a fixed budget. But we all know it's almost impossible to fully specify what you need.
An Agile software approach proved to work for us. After implementing Scrum our projects went more smooth and we were more often delivering the right results on time.
It took time to get this working. For developers it was a bit scary and for our clients it meant they really had to trust us. Today we can see our effort pays off. We wouldn't like to go back to waterfall times anymore.
Claire Brawdy recently delivered a presentation titled "Design Thinking for KM Strategy & Roadmapping," at the KMI Showcase held in Tysons Corner, Virginia. The presentation delved into how KM practitioners can and should be leveraging Design Thinking to develop a human-centered approach to knowledge management. Brawdy discussed the Design Thinking methodology, and shared real-world examples of how to leverage this approach to understand end users, define and prioritize KM solutions, and translate that into a KM roadmap to mature knowledge management within any organization.
KM'ing Your Content - Best Practices for Effective Content Strategy and Manag...Enterprise Knowledge
EK's Chris Marino recently presented at the annual KM Showcase in Tysons Corner, VA. His presentation, “KM’ing your Content”, provided a glimpse into the common challenges related to the content an organization generates - Findability, Relevancy, Redundancy, Complexity, and Consistency. To meet these challenges, he focused on a variety of high value, yet easily implemented techniques that can provide organizations with findable, shareable, useable content.
LSCTIG 2015 Session Materials - Are you agile ?
Agile can make projects more visible, more focused on delivering value, and more responsive to ever-changing needs. Learn what Agile is and how Illinois Legal Aid Online and Legal Services Corporation are using two of the most popular Agile frameworks to better manage teams and projects, improve quality, and deliver solutions that meet user needs. We'll also demo free and low-cost Agile tools for managing Agile projects.
Webinar: Remote Learning - How to Brainstorm Lean Six Sigma Improvement IdeasGoLeanSixSigma.com
Group Brainstorming has been debunked by countless studies, but including others in problem solving is essential. How do we address this paradox?
The science supports a completely different, and much better approach to coming up with solutions. Join us for this 1-hour webinar where we walk you through a new way to get more ideas, better solutions and essential group engagement in a remote world.
Project management tools often are adopted and dropped because they are put in place without a connected project management system to make them useful.
Why Content Projects Fail - Deane Barker - Presentation at eZ Conference 2017eZ Systems
Deane Barker, Chief Strategy Officer at Blend Interactive spoke at eZ Conference 2017 on Why Content Projects Fail. Deane discussed 5 reasons for why content projects fail, and what we can do to prevent it. From the case study syndrome to development myopia and more, Deane highlights the areas of failure for content projects. And then goes over practical ways to overcome these failure to achieve success.
Twelve Risks to Enterprise Software Projects—And What to Do about ThemTechWell
Every large software project is unique—each with its own complex array of challenges. When projects get into trouble, however, they often exhibit similar patterns, and succumb to risks that could have been anticipated and prevented—or detected sooner and managed better. Common responses to the problems—blaming, deferring action, or outright denial—only make things worse. Payson Hall reviews a dozen patterns he has observed over and over again on troubled projects during his thirty-year career: trouble with subcontractors, challenges with project sponsors, friction within the team, perils of interfacing with adjacent systems, issues with data cleansing and conversion, and more. Payson shares the tools he uses to help identify the symptoms of common risks, reduce the likelihood of risks occurring, facilitate early detection of problems, and establish a foundation for helpful responses when problems arise. This session is designed for project managers, team leaders, project sponsors, and anyone responsible for building or rolling out large enterprise systems.
Distinguishing Between Healthy and Unhealthy Mistakes: How to Fail Like A ProHighland
The Failure Revolution is well underway—a celebration of missteps, failures, and errors as pivotal moments of learning and growth. But how is a blunder different from a moment of growth? What types of mistakes are worth the learning, and which costly ones would rather be avoided?
In launching over 250 digital products over the past 20 years, Highland is well-versed in the language of failure. We’re taking a moment to reflect on which failures are an intentional part of the process, which ones take us by surprise, and which ones we help organizations avoid.
Come join us for some memorable stories of hits and misses.
Attendees will learn:
• The most common failure patterns in the digital innovation process, with examples from our lived experience.
• How to recognize and avoid the most common failure points and patterns.
• How to discern learning moments from expected failures, or worse—unexpected failures.
• How to move from fearing failure to living failure, and dodging fatal failure.
Anti-patterns for not-so-smart processes: Avoiding the BPM and SOA pitfalls. A short presentation to focus your project on success - featuring the "magic progress fairy"
Getting Started in Project Management for Librarians - Metropolitan New York ...Lisa Chow
Whether you’re organizing an event, renovating or rearranging a space, creating a program, or implementing a grant, you’re managing a project. Project management can help you manage projects more effectively and efficiently. Learn tools and techniques for successfully planning, organizing, and administering projects. To best respond to the constantly changing library world we will be sharing principles and concepts from design thinking and agile project management.
By the end of this workshop, participants will:
Receive a basic overview of iterative and agile-like project management from a design thinking perspective
Gain knowledge to successfully manage a project cycle from start to finish through hands-on activities and exercises
Receive a project management toolkit
Learn about tools, strategies, and techniques to manage projects and teams better
Why Training Projects Fail:How to RecoverDavid Goodman
Learn why training projects fail through experiencing four case studies. Can a project and your relationship with your internal or external clients be recovered during a project gone wrong?
Sharing the basics of Project Management - which should be helpful for every project team member.
Often Designers are known to work in their silos and talk their own lingo. It's increasingly important for Design & UX folks to understand overall Project Management & Processes.
This should help propel the case for Design focused execution of projects.
DrupalGovCon - Taming Your Data 2023.pdfDesignHammer
Google Analytics 4 (released in 2020) provides many structural improvements over Universal Analytics (the previous version), but default GA4 events and reports leave many important questions unanswered. Fortunately there are numerous places where Google Analytics 4 can be customized or extended to optimize tracking and relevant reporting.
In this session, we will outline common optimizations for GA4 and how to leverage Google Tag Manager and Google Looker Studio to keep your optimizations and reporting clean and well documented.
In this webinar, we will discuss:
- Google Analytics 4 in 5 minutes
- Enhanced Measurement Events, Recommended Events, and Custom Events
- 3 common ways to track form submissions
- Customizing reporting to highlight your target metrics
Central NJ Web Developers Meetup - Google Analytics 4.pdfDesignHammer
Universal Analytics (Google Analytics 3) is reaching end of life. Upgrade to Google Analytics 4 (other another analytics platform) before Universal Analytics stops collecting data! Learn the differences between UA and GA4, privacy considerations for Google Analytics, & how and when to implement GA4.
Increasing Traffic to your Drupal Blog with Automated RSS Email CampaignsDesignHammer
Taking advantage of RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feeds to automate your newsletter campaigns can be a simple way to increase traffic to your blog, especially if you don’t want to pay for a fancy marketing automation tool. During this session we will discuss the basics behind building out automated newsletter campaigns in RSS-compatible email marketing tools such as Mailchimp.
Google Tag Manager for actionable metrics - Beyond basic Google AnalyticsDesignHammer
Google Analytics is a nearly ubiquitous analytics tool for websites, and implementing it in Drupal is simple. However, if you are not selling website advertising or running an ecommerce website, it does a poor job of providing actionable metrics of website performance. You could extend Google Analytics with Events, but this generally required a developer to implement custom JavaScript events or adjust. With the advent of Google Tag Manager, non-developers and Site Builders can configure and update custom event tracking for Google Analytics to improve the relevance of their metrics.
Access Not Denied: Accessible Websites for AllDesignHammer
Website Accessibility refers to the idea that people of all abilities and disabilities should be able to access online content. These disabilities can impair vision, hearing, and movement. Since the early days of the web, accessibility focus in the US has been on government run, and government funded websites. This can often include Nonprofits, but even if it is not required, making your website accessible better serves your audience. We will provide a high-level overview of website accessibility, how to think about website accessibility from an organizational perspective, and how to start a website accessibility initiative in your own organization.
Google Tag Manager for actionable metrics - Beyond basic Google AnalyticsDesignHammer
Google Analytics is a nearly ubiquitous analytics tool for websites, and implementing it in Drupal is simple. However, if you are not selling website advertising or running an ecommerce website, it does a poor job of providing actionable metrics of website performance. You could extend Google Analytics with Events, but this generally required a developer to implement custom JavaScript events or adjust. With the advent of Google Tag Manager, non-developers and Site Builders can configure and update custom event tracking for Google Analytics to improve the relevance of their metrics.
Takeaways:
- How to use Google Tag Manager
- Common approaches to tracking website interactions using Events for Google Analytics
-- Webform submissions
-- File downloads
-- Offsite link clicks
-- Embedded video interactions
Website Accessibility: It’s the Right Thing to doDesignHammer
Website Accessibility refers to the idea that people of all abilities and disabilities be able to access online content. These disabilities can impair vision, hearing, and movement. Since the early days of the web, accessibility focus in the US has been on government run, and government funded websites. This may soon change. Even if the new regulations don’t apply to your business, learn what is involved in making your website accessible to better serve your customers. It’s the right thing to do.
Get it right the first time through cheap and easy DIY usability testingDesignHammer
At it’s most basic, usability is about insuring something, such as a website, works well. Without usability testing results, design and functionality decisions are based on opinion. Despite the understood importance, many organizations believe usability testing is too expensive and time consuming to fit their budget and schedule. We will show how usability tests can be performed both quickly and inexpensively using popular DIY usability techniques. We will cover both analog and online tools for user surveys, card sorting, tree testing, first click testing, and user testing. You don’t need a lot of participants either—many valuable tests may be performed with as few as five subjects.
Website Redesign: Are You Planning To Succeed Or Succeeding To Fail? It All S...DesignHammer
Don’t let planning your next website project become a full-time second job. Join us for a fresh look at the planning, RFP writing, and hiring process. We’ll provide a “from the trenches” look at common points of failure and provide tactics for avoiding them through guidelines, tips, case studies, and role-play.
Presented at: Capital Camp and Gov Days
Presented by: David Minton and Stephen Pashby
Date: August 1, 2014
Link: http://2014.capitalcampandgovdays.com/capital-camp-and-gov-days/sessions/website-redesign-are-you-planning-succeed-or-succeeding-fail-it
Stop Playing Hide and Seek with Google: Drupal SEO for Non-profitsDesignHammer
No matter what your organization's focus is, being found by your target audience, be they volunteers, donors, or stakeholders when they search must be a focus for every non-profit's web team. As many non-profits utilize Drupal for their Content Management of choice, we will discuss Drupal as a Search Engine Optimization (SEO) platform. We will cover an overview of how SEO works followed by how to leverage popular SEO modules in Drupal 6 and Drupal 7 to support your SEO efforts.
The Intersection of Usability, Accessibility, and SEODesignHammer
Presented by David Minton (Managing Partner) at
NCTech4Good Meetup (01/18/2012)
Note: This is essentially the same as the Wake Tech Community College presentation.
When considering a website’s optimal level of Usability, it becomes evident that the practices of SEO and Accessibility also factor greatly into this area of the website’s success. To achieve a website with a high degree of Usability, one must develop it with three audiences in mind; 1) average visitors, 2) disabled visitors, and 3) search engine robots. As each user browses through the site, there are hurdles to overcome such as interpreting hyperlinks, images, and flash files. While implementing a few techniques will improve the user experience for a particular audience, benefits can be found in the Usability improvement for all three. Through adequately preparing it to reach all three audiences, you are ensuring the site achieves the basic goal of effective online communication.
This presentation will cover the basics of Usability, Accessibility and SEO, how they are interrelated and discuss what solutions are available to serve each audience and improve overall website Usability.
Presentation at the NCTech4Good conference in Chapel Hill, NC on April 15, 2011. The presentation covers upgrading to Drupal 7 from Drupal 6 (or another system), and covers best practices, recommendations. Update.php and migrate module are both discussed.
This 7-second Brain Wave Ritual Attracts Money To You.!nirahealhty
Discover the power of a simple 7-second brain wave ritual that can attract wealth and abundance into your life. By tapping into specific brain frequencies, this technique helps you manifest financial success effortlessly. Ready to transform your financial future? Try this powerful ritual and start attracting money today!
1.Wireless Communication System_Wireless communication is a broad term that i...JeyaPerumal1
Wireless communication involves the transmission of information over a distance without the help of wires, cables or any other forms of electrical conductors.
Wireless communication is a broad term that incorporates all procedures and forms of connecting and communicating between two or more devices using a wireless signal through wireless communication technologies and devices.
Features of Wireless Communication
The evolution of wireless technology has brought many advancements with its effective features.
The transmitted distance can be anywhere between a few meters (for example, a television's remote control) and thousands of kilometers (for example, radio communication).
Wireless communication can be used for cellular telephony, wireless access to the internet, wireless home networking, and so on.
Multi-cluster Kubernetes Networking- Patterns, Projects and GuidelinesSanjeev Rampal
Talk presented at Kubernetes Community Day, New York, May 2024.
Technical summary of Multi-Cluster Kubernetes Networking architectures with focus on 4 key topics.
1) Key patterns for Multi-cluster architectures
2) Architectural comparison of several OSS/ CNCF projects to address these patterns
3) Evolution trends for the APIs of these projects
4) Some design recommendations & guidelines for adopting/ deploying these solutions.
ER(Entity Relationship) Diagram for online shopping - TAEHimani415946
https://bit.ly/3KACoyV
The ER diagram for the project is the foundation for the building of the database of the project. The properties, datatypes, and attributes are defined by the ER diagram.
5. “Impressive Project Management Statistics”
● Most organizations have a 70% project failure rate
● On average, projects go over budget by 27% of their intended cost
● 55% of project managers cited budget overrun as a reason for project failure
● Only 64% of projects meet their goals
● 78% reported that their business was not aligned with project goals
● 75% believe their projects are always or usually slated to fail from the beginning
Source: https://learn.g2.com/project-management-statistics
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8. 8
Fezzik: Why do you wear a mask? Were you burned by
acid, or something like that?
Man in Black: Oh no, it’s just that they’re terribly
comfortable. I think everyone will be wearing them in the
future.
11. Classic blunders
● The most famous is “Never get involved in a land war in Asia.”
● But only slightly less well known is this: “Never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line.”
Source: Vizzini, The Sicilian
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13. Lack of business case
● Blunder: Project lacks a use case or business need
● Risk: Project is a waste of time and money
● When: Project is typically doomed from the start
● Why: There needs to be a reason
● Fix: Identify organizational goals, and determine how the project aligns before investing time
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15. Unrealistic expectations
● Blunder: Resources (time and money) are always constrained, be reasonable in what can be done
● Risk: Project doesn’t start, project isn’t completed, feature creep
● When: Any time, but typically during Project Definition or Planning
● Why: Compromise and reasonable expectation increase likelihood of success
● Fix: Look at projects that have similar budgets and schedules. Don’t look at groups orders of
magnitude larger to set project requirements
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17. Insufficient schedule
● Blunder: Not allowing enough calendar time to successfully complete the project
● Risk: Project will be late or fail (if a hard deadline)
● When: Project is typically doomed from the start
● Why: Complex systems with interdependent parts take time (see Man Month Myth)
● Fix: Involve leadership in setting project goals and metrics of success and at key approval stages
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19. Absent or uninvolved leadership
● Blunder: Inadequate access to stakeholders/leadership during project
● Risk: Lack of leadership involvement at critical stages can lead to rejection of the entire project
● When: Project Definition, Discovery and Planning or Production
● Why: Leadership input and critical for project to align with organizational goals
● Fix: Involve leadership in setting project goals and metrics of success and at key approval stages
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21. Junior project manager
● Blunder: Junior staff member tasted with managing project
● Risk: Lacks authority to make decisions, or require staff to provide support
● When: Generally doomed from the start
● Why: Project manager needs either authority to make decisions/assign staff to tasks
● Fix: Senior staff need to be responsible to maximize efficiency. Senior support of junior project
manager can work, but usually takes longer, and more prone to error.
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23. Communication breakdown
● Blunder: Irregular meetings, inadequate documentation
● Risk: Misunderstandings will cause work to need to be redone
● When: Any stage
● Why: Documentation will avoid errors, and provide reminders of why decisions were made
● Fix: Regular meetings with notes circulated, approved, and accessible afterwards, documented
approval steps
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25. Design by committee
● Blunder: Too many people involved in decision making
● Risk: Project will be late and over budget, not really satisfy anyone
● When: Production, but stage is set in Planning
● Why: “Too many cooks spoil the soup”
● Fix: Rely on a small group of decision makers, ideally with one who can make ultimate decisions
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27. Vanishing volunteers
● Blunder: Entrusting mission critical tasks to volunteers that may leave at anytime
● Risk: May not complete tasks, or may disappear when support is necessary
● When: Production or Support
● Why: You get what you pay for
● Fix: Avoid a single point of failure, particularly in mission critical systems
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29. Blinded by buzzword
● Blunder: Becoming distracted from your core goals by the latest web fad or bleeding edge
technology
● Risk: May increase project cost or complexity without delivering a compelling ROI
● When: Discovery and Planning
● Why: Just because you can do something, doesn’t mean you should
● Fix: Focus on the project goals and allow these to guide design and technology choices
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31. Ignoring risks
● Blunder: Failing to identify project risks and discuss mitigation
● Risk: Project failure due to everything not going as planned
● When: Project Definition, Discovery and Planning or Production
● Why: The unexpected (or inconceivable) frequently happens
● Fix: Identify potential risks and determine appropriate mitigations should the risks manifest
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33. Avoiding blunders
● Enure project aligns with organizational goals
● Align expectations with available resources
● Involve appropriate stakeholders to provide input, feedback, and approval
● Get feedback from potential users through surveys or user testing
● Follow an appropriate process including communication, feedback, and approvals
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35. Align with organizational goals
● How does this project fit in with the organization’s mission and vision?
● Core organizational focus?
● Discrete tactical initiative?
● Vanity project/boondoggle?
● Understanding this can guide appropriate scope and resourcing
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37. Match expectations with resources
● A well-resourced project that delivers a core organizational focus can realistically have one type of
expectations
● A department project resourced with chewing gum and bailing wire should realistically have much
more modest expectations
● If you are not investing the resources of Apple, should you expect Apple levels of polish?
● “Get used to disappointment.”
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39. Stakeholder involvement
● Line up the stakeholders you need to have involved, to make sure the right people weigh in
throughout the process, including:
● Technical requirements
● Information architecture
● Design
● User acceptance testing
● Final sign-off
● Involved the right people at the right time can help keep your project on schedule and minimize
costly re-work
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User surveys & user
testing
“What did this do to you? Tell me. And
remember, this is for posterity, so be
honest — how do you feel?”
— Count Rugen
41. User surveys & user testing
● Ultimately, whether users can find your website useful and compelling will determine your success
or failure
● Engaging with your users to learn how they will interact with your content and functionality can
help you avoid blunders
● Common user testing tools include:
● User Surveys
● Card Sorts
● Tree Testing
● Usability Testing
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Follow an appropriate
process
“I just figured why you give me so much trouble.”
“Well, I haven't fought one person for so long. I've
been specialized in groups, battling gangs for local
charities, that kind of thing.”
“You use different moves when you're fighting half a
dozen people, than when you only have to be
worried about one”
“ZZZZZZZZ”
— Fezzik
43. Follow an appropriate process
● Following an appropriate process will help you avoid many blunders
● Making sure you have the right sign-off from the right stakeholders can help with questions later
when busy stakeholders do not remember what they approved
● Documentation can help you remember not only what you and your team decided, but why it was
decided
● Best practices for development can simplify maintenance and reduce the cost of future
development
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Project
definition/resourcing
“My brains, his steel, and your strength against
sixty men, and you think a little head jiggle is
supposed to make me happy? I mean, if we only
had a wheelbarrow, that would be something.”
— Westley
47. Project definition/resourcing
● Define what is the organization going to do and why
● Determine who will be involved (staff, stakeholders, & volunteers)
● Allocate appropriate resources (calendar, budget, and/or staff time)
● Select and hire outside resources, if appropriate
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Discovery & planning
“I always think that everything could
be a trap, which is why I’m still alive”
— Prince Humperdinck
49. Discovery & planning
● Document project goals, intended audiences, and metrics of success
● Determine content strategy and organization
● Identify specific technology implementations
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Post-launch
“I have been in the revenge business so
long, now that it’s over, I don’t know
what to do with the rest of my life.”
— Inigo Montoya
55. Conclusion
● Use a process
● Avoid blunders that doom a project from the start
● Mitigate the effects of blunders that kill potentially successful projects
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57. BADCamp 2020
Coming up next
Friday 11 am
● Accessible SVGs: Inclusiveness Beyond Patterns with
Carie Fisher
● Decoupling Drupal: Gatsby Live Preview from the
same project with Chad Carlson
● Making a better community, better software, and a
better world with Tara King, Ruby Sinreich, and Elli
Lugwigson
58. BADCamp 2020
Coming up next
Friday 10:45 am ● Coffee Break with amazee.io in the Expo Hall