posts tagged with ‘usability’
How to avoid comment spam?
I’m sure you’ve seen them before, these mindbreaking questions you need to answer or impossible images to decipher just to comment on an article. After 5 tries the horrible thing finally agrees to what you’ve typed down.
As a webmaster you don’t want to spend too much time desciding whether the comment was made by a automated bot or not. As a visitor you don’t want to spend your time by solving a stupid question in order to contribute to a an article. In this article I’ll show you some of the most common solutions to reduce comment spam.
Why do passwords appear as dots in a form?
When I want to subscribe myself for a newsletter, website, online application or want to sign in, I need to put in my password. This is the easiest way to protect websites/applications and it works, but what I really don’t understand is why a password need to appear as dots in the textfield.
