April, 2007

Apr 25th, 2007

A List Apart’s Web Design Survey

Online publication for web professionals, A List Apart, is administering the first of an annual survey of web professionals. Respondents are eligible for a few prize drawings, but the real value is going to be when they publish the collected data. The survey goes pretty quickly.

Apr 25th, 2007

Using an Index to Speed Up Your Database Queries

I almost didn’t write on this topic. There are a lot of people out there who know more about indexing than I do. The problem is all of the knowledge on the subject is being presented by and for database specialists. While their need is probably greater, I contend that web programmers who create dynamic [...]

Apr 18th, 2007

It’s Not Just What You Say…

The habit is easy to fall into. I find myself from time to time thinking of text as just an expandable block element I need to account for in my design. And truthfully for the role I as a designer and programmer play in the birth of a web site, maybe that’s all the thought [...]

Apr 11th, 2007

Lessons Learned in the First 8 Months of Freelancing

One of the blogs I read regularly is that of AJAX designer Jesse Skinner. I’ve never had an extended conversation with the man, but he stands out in my memory in part because we started full-time freelancing at almost the exact same time. Naturally when he made a post about his first 2 months of [...]

Apr 4th, 2007

Tell Your Small Clients About Standardization

I came across a good article yesterday with the title, The business case for Web standards-based development. I like the break down at the end of the article of all the benefits that come with designing a standards compliant web site.
It got me thinking about the clients I’ve had in the last year. Most of [...]

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