It’s easy to overlook the importance of budgeting your time because it seems so simple. You feel like you instinctively know whether or not you have enough time to do a project this week, this month, or at all. In the beginning as your practice is growing, you’ll almost always be right. Sometimes you may [...]
Practical, Entry-Level Web Accessibility – Accessibility isn’t an all or nothing game. Taking small steps toward textbook accessibility is worth doing. Web Design Contracts: Why Bother – A good outline of why freelancers need contracts and what they should contain. I Wish I Had Written This – If you aren’t familiar with the NO!SPEC project, [...]
Most visitors to a web page will only see how it is displayed in their browser of choice. They don’t know (or care) how the code that generates that page appears. So why should we as developers care? Because we’ve been told it’s the right thing to do? Well, okay, I guess. If I’m going [...]
It seems like all of my web design customers these days are demanding content management systems (CMS). They don’t come right out and say that’s what they need, of course. They talk about how they want to be able to add things to their web site without the hassle of contacting me or any other [...]
I always get excited when Andy Rutledge posts a “redux”. He looks at a poorly designed site from a recognizable company that should have someone on staff who knows better. He outlines a few of the problems and then creates an example of how he would design the site better. This time around he takes [...]
Update: As of 6/23/2008 I have removed the Google ads. I learned the things that I set out to learn from using them. There was no noticeable financial gain from using them, so I just didn’t both when I updated the site. I made a decision this week to add Google ads to the blog. [...]
For my money, a standardista in the web design arena is someone who will let nothing stand in the way of having perfectly compliant code. It should strictly validate as HTML (or XHTML). Any CSS files should also validate. If the customer wants or would benefit from a feature that can’t be accomplished in a [...]
