Customer feedback is arguably one of the most critical factors determining the success of a product over a period of time. Hence, it’s not surprising that many websites have some form of contact form or another to encourage users to write back to them. Most of these “contact” pages tend to be on a separate page which is usually part of the navigation or is linked to with phrases like “we encourage your feedback” or “do get in touch with us”, etc.
However, I have often noticed that many people (unless they genuinely needed help), either back away from submitting their comments (when they are confronted by a large textarea on the contact page), or simply move away from the site as the contact page loads.
Today, let’s spice things up a bit by using jQuery to load a lightweight inline contact form. So, instead of loading a separate contact form page when the “contact us” link is clicked, we will just have a small textarea opens up dynamically right next to the link – so that the user can type his feedback and it can be submitted rightaway using AJAX. Our main aim here is to encourage more users…
Right from Twitter to Google Wave, real time information streaming via the browser seems to be the most “happening” thing on the web arena currently. However, feeding real time information as and when it is available to an user using your web application is not as straight forward as it is on a desktop environment.
W3.org is overhauling its website in order to make it more user-friendly and quiet people who used to wonder (including me) why the administrator body of web have such dull, flat, unorganized and old fashioned website?
The new website looks more attractive and organized. 10 minutes tour of new website can be found here. In contrast with the previous version, this new website uses rich content presentation, including JavaScript.
The website uses jQuery 1.3.2, a very known and popular JavaScript library, instead of pure JavaScript. This is very good news and a big leap towards streamlining the use of JavaScript frameworks, specially in case of jQuery. In addition of core jQuery framework, beta.w3.org also uses jQuery plugins (e.g.: http://malsup.com/jquery/cycle/), to enhance the user experience.
The biggest news of the day is w3.org beta website doesn’t render correctly in IE6. It’s supposed to be a strong argument for web developers in order to inspire and take initiative towards to stop exclusive coding to render their websites correctly in IE6.
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