Photo by YanivG . Widgets are excellent for adding unique functionality to a web site. However, as the we becomes more “widgetized”, it’s starting to add strain on the web browsing experience for our users. The more widgets we add to our web pages, the worse it makes the web. Widget…

Photo by paulwoolrich . While more and more people are using faster Internet connections, there seems to be less emphasis by web developers on optimizing pages for faster load times. We’re seeing more and more widgets and javascript-heavy pages that take a long time to load, even on fast Internet connections. It’…

Photo by jstar . It appears that the glory days of the homepage are almost over. Jakob Nielsen has been finding that web users are becoming more and more fickle . Instead of going to the homepage and nosing around the site using categories and site searches, people are instead using Google to find everything and …