using the right technology at the right time
You hear marketers yammer on about branding. A lot of it has validity, so you want to help out in your web marketing initiatives. So why would you want your company’s 2-word name to be split onto 2 separate lines? Let me show you why this is bad in your web marketing and how to avoid this mistake by using HTML non-breaking spaces.
User Interface Engineering wrote an excellent article about how Netflix publishes changes to their site every 2 weeks. Highly recommended. And honestly, I’m envious of Netflix. Technorati Tags: usability, design, web design, web, internet, experience, marketing, web development, programming, product design
As techies are starting to see more widespread adoption of web standards, they are starting to run out of things to complain about. They have been fighting the good fight for years! Now we have a cluster of comments on Signal vs. Noise complaining about how standards and RSS are making designs and content on [...]
Probably the biggest annoyance in developing government web sites has been the overuse of the PDF format. But the problem extends beyond government sites. On the web are hordes of PDFs. I’ve been taught over the years that PDF is not optimal for delivering content over the Web, but I’ve recently discovered more information that [...]
I love Don Norman’s The Invisible Computer. It is packed with so many great ideas and observations that I cannot share them all with you without writing a book myself. So here are the basic points of the book. Technorati Tags: usability, book review, technology, marketing
Don Norman makes a great observation about the mindset of most of today’s technology professionals at the end of Chapter 7 in The Invisible Computer. Most technology professionals still look at technology solutions from a machine-centered point of view. Norman suggests a solution by pointing out a different point of view where the human wins. [...]
As I’ve gotten better with XHTML and CSS, I’ve become more interested in figuring out which tag to use for each element on a web page. HTML tags were designed to describe information, not necessarily to dictate how to display information. We developers should ask ourselves which tags we should use on our HTML forms. [...]
I’ve always loved the idea of MVC frameworks. But I don’t like the super long query strings these frameworks usually add to your URLs. I’m starting to find some appeal in what ColdFusion on Wheels does to meet the need of having better URLs, yet providing the benefits of a MVC framework for coding structure. [...]
Our development team at the County spent the last month researching and discussing which development environment(s) to standardize on, particularly with server side languages. All of this started after I requested some funding for an Enterprise upgrade of ColdFusion. Of course, this raised the question of whether or not we really needed ColdFusion. Did we [...]
Book Review: Designing Web Usability I’ve finally finshed reading another staple piece of literature in our field of web design. Although slightly outdated, Jakob Nielsen’s Designing Web Usability is a must read. Seriously, go get it. It’s your responsibility as a web designer to know this information.
About MeI'm Chris Peters, and I'm a lover of web design and development. I'm based in Columbus, Ohio. Follow me as I have successes and struggles in this fast-moving technology environment.
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