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- Feature Inspection
- Feature inspections analyze only the feature set
of a site, usually given end user scenarios for
the end result to be obtained from the use of the
website. For example, a scenario for the training
site would be to register for a workshop. The features
that would be used are navigating to the workshop
site, selecting a class, adding it to their shopping
cart, filling out the registration form, and pressing
the submit button. Each set of features used to
produce the required output (a registration) is
analyzed for its availability, understandability,
and general usefulness.
- Field
Observation (Ethnographic Study)
- Field observation is simply observing users at
their work using your website. Observing them in
their own environment may help pinpoint problems
that you might not think of in your own office or
even in a testing lab. However, even though a skilled
observer can be subtle, the very nature of the observation
process will likely change the way the user works.
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File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
- File Transfer Protocol is a method to upload and
download files over the Internet.
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Flash
- Flash is a multimedia special effects plug-in
developed by Macromedia.
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Float
- In Cascading Style Sheets, floated images are
removed from the document flow, and yet affect the
layout of content. Margins on floated elements are
not collapsed with anything. If you float an image,
it will behave more or less like in HTML. The basic
rule is that a floated element will go as high and
as far to one side as possible, so long as it doesn't
rise above where it would have been in normal flow,
nor move outside its parent element (but negative
margins can have the usual strange effect)
- Focus
Groups
- Focus groups are formal, structured events where
you directly interact with users, asking them to
voice their opinions and experiences regarding a
website.
- Following Element
- In (X)HTML an element A is called a following
element of an element B, if and only if B is a preceding
element of A.
- Font
Element
- The font element has been
deprecated and should not be used. Delete your
font elements, not only from your web pages, but
from your mind as well. Instead use markup and style
sheets to control the appearance of text. Size should
be defined by relative units such as percent, ems,
exs. Do not use absolute units such as picas, inches,
etc.
- Font-size
- The value used with the em-box to scale a font
for display. CSS
defines the font size to be "the size of the font
when set solid. This means that the height of the
font is the distance from the highest point in the
highest glyph to the lowest point in the lowest
glyph.
- Formal Usability Inspection
- This evaluation method formalizes the review of
a specification or early prototype. The basic steps
are to assemble a team of four to eight inspectors,
assign each a special role in the context of the
inspection, distribute the design documents to be
inspected and instructions, have the inspectors
go off on their own to do their inspection, and
convene later in a formal inspection meeting. Defects
found are assigned to responsible parties to be
fixed, and the cycle continues.
- Frames
- A feature of HTML, that allows a web author to divide
a page into two or more separate windows. If the
frame does not have a <title> element, or
the <title> element is not meaningful this
can cause accessibility issues. In addition, some
browsers do not support frames.
- Front
Door
- The first page of a website.
- Function
- In programming, functions are blocks of code that
can be defined once and then be invoked from their
parts of the program. Typically, a function takes
an argument or series of arguments, performs a predefined
set of operation upon them and returns a resulting
value. Functions allow you to write very modular,
structured applications. Code that would otherwise
be repeated often can instead exist in one place
and be invoked (or called) through the rest of your
program. PHP has many, many commonly available functions.
It also supports user-definable functions.
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