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Basic Setup
- Go to http://uxtags.appspot.com/ and register your website.
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Setting up uxTags
- Go to http://uxtags.appspot.com/ and register your website.
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uxTags, short for user experience tags, tackles a problem we all face daily while browsing the web. uxTags aims to eliminate this problem by adding a widget to the site that displays a list of keywords specific to the page in question. When the user lands on the site they will encounter a list of keywords which do two things for us. First of all the list gives a visual indicator that the information was looking for is in fact found on the page. Secondly, the keyword list removes the need to perform a secondary search and/or scroll and scan for the right section. The each keyword in the uxTags widget is clickable. When clicked the matching term is highlighted through the entire document making it easy to locate and the document is automatically scrolled to the first matching result. A set of arrows is added beside each matching term as well. These arrows support navigation between the matched results. Users can navigation to the next result, the previous result, or back to the beginning of the document.
To signup for this service please visit the uxTags site.
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Lets look an example...
- Open Google and search for "Most Dangerous Programming Mistakes and Random Values".
- The first search result looks promising. Lets follow the link and find out all about the dangers of random values.
- Humm... well that certainly looks like the article we wanted, but nothing on the initial screen has anything to do with random numbers. What went wrong? Nothing really. The content we want is the page, but it's number 23 in the list.
- At this point the user will have to do one of two things; scroll down continuously scanning the page for the content we are interested in or open the find feature within the browser and perform a 2nd search. This is certainly not an optimal searching experience!
We can do better
uxTags aims to eliminate this problem by adding a widget to the site that displays a list of keywords specific to the page in question. When the user lands on the site they will encounter a list of keywords which do two things for us. First of all the list gives a visual indicator that the information was looking for is in fact found on the page. Secondly, the keyword list removes the need to perform a secondary search and/or scroll and scan for the right section. The each keyword in the uxTags widget is clickable. When clicked the matching term is highlighted through the entire document making it easy to locate and the document is automatically scrolled to the first matching result. A set of arrows is added beside each matching term as well. These arrows support navigation between the matched results. Users can navigation to the next result, the previous result, or back to the beginning of the document.Additions:
uxTags aims to eliminate this problem by adding a widget to the site that displays a list of keywords specific to the page in question. When the user lands on the site they will encounter a list of keywords which do two things for us. First of all the list gives a visual indicator that the information was looking for is in fact found on the page. Secondly, the keyword list removes the need to perform a secondary search and/or scroll and scan for the right section. The each keyword in the uxTags widget is clickable. When clicked the matching term is highlighted through the entire document making it easy to locate and the document is automatically scrolled to the first matching result. A set of arrows is added beside each matching term as well. These arrows support navigation between the matched results. Users can navigation to the next result, the previous result, or back to the beginning of the document.
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Lets look an example...
We can do better
uxTags aims to eliminate this problem by adding a widget to the site that displays a list of keywords specific to the page in question. When the user lands o the site they will encounter a list of keywords which do two things for us. First of all the list gives a visual indicator that the information was looking for is in fact found on the page. Secondly, the keyword list removes the need to perform a secondary search and/or scroll and scan for the right section. The each keyword in the uxTags widget is clickable. When clicked the matching term is highlighted through the entire document making it easy to locate and the document is automatically scrolled to the first matching result. A set of arrows is added beside each matching term as well. These arrows support navigation between the matched results. Users can navigation to the next result, the previous result, or back to the beginning of the document.Setting up uxTags
The process to setup uxTags is very simple. Here are the basic steps required to get things working:- Go to http://uxtags.appspot.com/ and register your website.
- Tell uxTags which DOM element(s) on your page contain the main content it should use to identify keywords ( add help info here ).
- Tell uxTags which DOM element it should render the keywords into ( add help info here ).
- Continue customizing the settings for your site as needed.
- Place the uxTags JavaScript tag just before the close </body> tag of your site.
Usage with Popular Blogging and/or Content Mgmt Systems
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History of recent changes for uxTags
uxTags
uxTags, short for user experience tags, tackles a problem we all face daily while browsing the web. Search engines like Google, Yahoo!, Bing, etc have gotten really good at helping us track down pages on the Internet with content specific to the terms we are searching for. That's great for us, but in many situations its only 1/2 of the search problem. How so?
Lets look an example...
- Open Google and search for "Most Dangerous Programming Mistakes and Random Values".
- The first search result looks promising. Lets follow the link and find out all about the dangers of random values.
- Humm... well that certainly looks like the article we wanted, but nothing on the initial screen has anything to do with random numbers. What went wrong? Nothing really. The content we want is the page, but it's number 23 in the list.
- At this point the user will have to do one of two things; scroll down continuously scanning the page for the content we are interested in or open the find feature within the browser and perform a 2nd search. This is certainly not an optimal searching experience!
