Web developement

We’re accustomed to everyting on the web bein “just a few mouse clicks away”. The click had grown into a natural habit with most of us. Some users (like my mom) just cannot resist double clicking on everything.

But what if the inventors of the mouse, and the early adopters had choosen some other way of interacting with the computer itself?

Dontclick.it is a research project researching alternatives to clicking, and they have a flash site where you can try to navigate just by pointing and moving the mouse about in various ways.

It really feels weird to try not to click things, and I must admit that I eventually did click. It happened when I came to the phase where I wanted to add some feedback. Suddenly I just clicked the field where I was to enter my name. Totally unnessesary of course.

Don’t miss the autopilot where you can see the recordings of other peoples mouse movements. Most peoples recordings look as if they never used the mose before at all.

Try it! www.dontclick.it

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I must admit I wasn’t aware of this previously, but apparently even a website should be built in regard of the ancient FENG SHUI rules. And actually, reading through this page at www.newmediastudies.com/fengshui.htm sounds rather obvious. I think, I will have to make one or two changes around here tonight. Just read this:

“LIGHT AND COLOUR
Bright, clean pages will bring good ch’i. Darkly coloured pages, or (even worse) pages with dingy colour combinations, are bad.

Bold use of colour is good, and stimulates the flow of ch’i. White and blue, representing air and water, are good colours, although any imaginative use of bold colour should be positive. Insignificant bits of colour, or wishy-washy colour combinations, will not be effective. Graphics should be clear and well-defined. The messy dithering of colours that occurs with JPEG compression is bad feng shui.”

So, in order to bring my visitors good ch’i, some changes have to come here. Besides. It’s easyer for me to re-build this site than to re-decorate my home…

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