Monthly Archives: September 2007

Links for Wed 12 Sep 2007 through Tue 18 Sep 2007

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Emotional Design, NUCHI

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I came across NUCHI, The Northern Utah chapter of the Association of Computing Machinery’s (ACM) Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction (SIGCHI), at NorthTemple. I’ve come across several passionate WordPress users, so I thought this would be an interesting to hear about. Here are my quick notes from the presentation given by Xinru Page:

  • How we make decisions
  • Processing: Visceral (attractiveness), Behavioral (functions, performance, usability), Reflective (self-image, meaning)
  • Product packaging
  • Baby face bias
  • Changing something people are already familiar with
  • Apple, Scoble’s iPhone Dev Camp video

Funny how we are attracted to things, not necessarily based on functionality, but how we feel about it.

Here are some of the general conversation issues that got brought up:

  • You don’t want medical devices to be hard to use or understand
  • Must have features, feature where more is better, and excitement features
  • The joy of inefficiency
  • Changing patterns (especially repetition) disrupts thought
  • Just because you can do something, you don’t have to do it
  • Right technology for the right crowd

So how do we design web sites the evoke these types positive emotional responses?

Links for Fri 7 Sep 2007 through Mon 10 Sep 2007

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Links for Thu 6 Sep 2007

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Links for Wed 29 Aug 2007 through Wed 5 Sep 2007

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WordPress File Uploads With IIS

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I didn’t have any problems getting WordPress to work on Windows Vista, IIS7 and PHP 5 (ISAPI). That is, until I tried to upload an image. After hunting around and gathering tips and ideas from others here is what I had to do:

  1. Edit upload_tmp_dir option in php.ini. In my case I created an uploads folder in the wwwroot: upload_tmp_dir = “c:\inetpub\wwwroot\uploads”
  2. Create the c:\inetpub\wwwroot\uploads folder and grant the IUSR full control of it
  3. Create the uploads folder in your wp-content folder, for me this was in c:\inetpub\wwwroot\wordpress-trunk\wp-contents\uploads, then grant the IUSR full control of it
  4. Restart the IIS service (to pick up the php.ini change)

After that I was able to upload files in WordPress running under Vista and IIS7. I haven’t tried to fine tune the permissions issue, it is possible that this can be done without having to grant full control of those folders to the IUSR account.