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Beginner Usability

Beginner Usability

A Novice's Guide to Zombie Proofing Your Website


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Published
May 2019
Publisher
Undead Institute
Chapters
30

About the course

When the zombie horde shuffles toward your city they’ll smash against the walls and pour through any hole they find. And if you have cracks and crevices in your website, making it hard to use or frustrating your audience, the horde will shuffle through those holes and past your website unharmed.

This book covers that gap between code and design, the things zombies hope you won’t learn, usability. It’s how a user interacts with your site and whether they can find the information they came looking for or complete the task they set out to do. Most usability books focus on the front end, how a user interacts with your site, but there’s also usability on the back end where you update and maintain the site. Better maintenance and better usability both lead to less crying and fewer zombies so it’s a win and a delayed apocalypse for everyone!

You won't just passively take in the view, like a zombie shuffling across the mainland. You’ll have plenty of combat practice with analogies, examples, and code tutorials you can build, break and fix again. Working with your hands and your head you’ll craft code that pleases the eye and knocks a zombie into last Tuesday.

All the code and directions are provided as both CodePen tutorials and downloadable HTML files, so you can fight the apocalypse how and where you like. You can work with them on the CodePen site or on your own device.

And later you'll bring those skills together in a final project that cements those skills into zombie smashing muscle memory.

Author

John Rhea

John Rhea

John is a storyteller with design and development skills. By day he designs and builds websites and mobile apps, by night he spins sci-fi stories at StoryLab (https://storylab.us) and counts his words carefully at https://8wordstories.com. He's a pineapple in disguise https://pineapplecomics.com and (as you know) tries to make learning web development fun by helping you kill zombies https://undead.institute.

Course Outline

Chapter 1: Useful Zombies
Chapter 2: Zombied Expectations
Chapter 3: The Frustration Index
Chapter 4: Frustration 1: Color by Zombie
Chapter 5: Frustration 2: Standing out from the Horde
Chapter 6: Frustration 3: Click the Zombie
Chapter 7: Frustration 4: Kill the Click Here
Chapter 8: Frustration 5: Scaling the Undead Walls (of Text)
Chapter 9: Frustration 6: Contagion is Too Small to See
Chapter 10: Frustration 7: Improper Apocalyptic Alignment
Chapter 11: Frustration 8: Suffocated Text Shouldn't Live on
Chapter 12: Frustration 9: A Busy, Busy Horded Mess
Chapter 13: Frustration 10: The Inconsistent and the Undead
Chapter 14: Frustration 11: Tag, Zombie, You're It
Chapter 15: Frustration 12: Undead Images
Chapter 16: Frustration 13: A Zombie's Alternate Text
Chapter 17: Frustration 14: Horde Structure
Chapter 18: Frustration 15: Can't Find it on the Post-Apocalyptic Map
Chapter 19: Frustration 16: Zombie Placement
Chapter 20: Frustration 17: Anonymous, Erroneous Zombies
Chapter 21: Frustration 18: Proofread, Proofundead, Proofread
Chapter 22: Maintaining the Apocalypse
Chapter 23: The Zombie Files
Chapter 24: Lowercase Letters and Lower Class Zombie
Chapter 25: Undead Special Characters
Chapter 26: (In)Denting Zombies
Chapter 27: Crash Test Zombies
Chapter 28: The Next Zombie Offensive
Chapter 29: Sneak Peak of HTML5 Forms and Interactive Elements (Or How To Poke Zombies in the Eye)
Chapter 30: Got Questions?

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Published
May 2019
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