Help users find the documents they're looking for by incorporating a 'thesaurus-like' hierarchy for your site.

Discussion on the inevitable collapse of Yahoo directory due to its size and complexity. He Predicts mini-yahoo sites within corporate intranets.

Advice for determining a level of granularity in breaking up documents for online viewing.

The reason why so many people lose their way on the Web, according to usability expert Jared Spool, is because they lose the scent of the information they are looking for. Jared shares his thoughts and perspectives on the Web, usability, and the user'...

Spool uncovers the lessons his research has taught him about how best to design a site so that users don't end up thwarted

"The number one activity on the Web is information retrieval." In part of his tutorial, Spool explained his findings on graphic design and users' success.

Editorial. One man decides to give up on spam filtering.

For those who, in a spirit of innovation and cooperation, make significant contributions to advancement of software development; to Adele Goldberg and Dan Ingalls as pioneers in object-oriented programming in general, and the Smalltalk language in par...

Free licensing of soft microprocessors lets designers easily modify FPGAs and gives greater visibility into architectures; explains implications of associated licensing models. Dr. Dobb's.

A review (by Eric Meyer) of Style Master.