I love almost everything about Pivotal Tracker. The one issue I have with it is the upper right-hand corner navigation menu. In my honest opinion I think the labels as misleading.
Here is how I would improve it:
The current “My Accounts” page contents should go under “My Account” which replaces “My Profile”
I always end up having to click around a couple times to get to the right place because to me the labels just don’t perfectly match their destinations.
Most of us often pull our hair out and cry uncontrollably when it comes to dealing with Internet Explorer 6. I have no doubt that it will eventually go away but in the meantime we each need to contribute to help speed up the process.
I am not sure why people still use such junk, if by not knowing better, we, the web developers must educate them. If they haven’t yet upgraded to Internet Explorer 7 because their copy of windows isn’t Genuine; Microsoft please give them a break, or better yet, go download Firefox and tell me it doesn’t kick some serious ass.
Web developers, if you can please either A. Stop supporting IE6 or B. Include a little friendly note at the top of ALL pages on your site letting the unfortunate user know that his experience will suck and that his personal information is unsafe on the web.
Here is a quick template I used in the past:
Feel free to make it , IE users probably love that :-)
The other day while flying from Chicago, IL to Fort Lauderdale, FL something caught my attention. The plane in which I was in still had tube style televisions which are becoming more scarce by the minute these days.
It got me thinking about the past, and how easy must have been to develop for the tube television as far are resolution/shape was concerned. Every TV set ran at 640x480 with the same aspect ratio. There was only so much you could fit in a frame at any time, and this was a known and respected fact. These guidelines still allow old TV’s to broadcast content that fits nicely in the frame like the old ones in that plane.
Unlike TV’s which have a very tight set of constraints there is the web. When developing a web application you never know where it will end up, who will see it? What resolution/size/shape monitor will it be used in. You also have to consider what type of device will be used to view your site, a handheld, desktop, high-definition television? All these variations pose numerous battles that have to be fought.
Constraint is good. Too many options are seldom good for anything. They hinder more than help.