This week
Portable Social Networks, The Building Blocks Of A Social Web
In: Articles
Are you a member of all the latest and greatest social networking sites? Tired of re-entering your personal details? Need to keep your information up-to-date across a myriad of accounts, and enable your user base to do the same? You need the foundations of the social web, brought to you by Ben Ward. Read more
Published on July 1, 2008
User names, profiles, and contact lists are already out there, buried in HTML. No user is being asked to expose themselves any more than they are; what we’re doing is to make that public information consumable in a consistent manner, to create a better user experience across sites.
— Ben Ward. Read more
Previous weeks
Integrating Social Media into a Web Content Strategy
In: Articles
You might know your Facebook from your Odeo, but most companies couldn’t give a Flickr about social media. How do we let them know the opportunities that a Web 2.0 world can hold for them? Britt Parrott explains how to develop a coherent and buzzword-free web content strategy. Read more
Published on June 24, 2008
The Education of Geeks and Freaks
In: Articles
Between choosing the most semantic markup, wrangling IE6 CSS bugs, and arguing which JavaScript library would win in a fight, it is easy to forget that the future of web design rests in the hands of a small group of people—those with responsibility for educating the next generation. Columnist Tom Green reports on the sad state of post-secondary education, and what it might mean for the future of effective web development. Read more
Published on June 17, 2008
Why Do Web Startups Die? Lack of Alphalpha
In: Articles
Every week heralds the announcement of yet another handful of web startups, filling a new niche or competing with established services—but all too often they are never heard from again. Marketing expert Dave Goldenberg is here to tell us what the problem is…and it has nothing to do with sprouts. Read more
Published on June 10, 2008
Review: Building Findable Websites
In: Reviews > Book Reviews
All the HTML, CSS, and JavaScript tricks in the world won’t help you if nobody can find your website in the first place. We take a look at the book that aims to make sure your site has that most important of features: Findability. Read more
Published on June 9, 2008
Free Your Embedded Data With SearchMonkey
In: Articles
The web is evolving ever faster, and it feels like almost every day there is a new tool to explore and learn. But which ones will be worth your time and effort? Well, how about the ones that stand to improve your company's bottom line? Yahoo!'s Christian Heilmann walks us through the creation of their new search modification tool, SearchMonkey. Read more
Published on June 3, 2008
Review: ScreenFlow
In: Reviews
The Web is a “show not tell” medium, but putting together effective screencasts takes time and editing. Ben Chestnut tells us he how was able to use Screenflow to produce a professional product at minimal cost. Read more
Published on June 3, 2008
Design Decisions vs. Audience Considerations
In: Articles
This week, we take a look at how to handle the conflict between what your users want, and what you want them to want. Robin Ragle-Davis considers how upfront audience profiling can reap customer relationship benefits down the line. Read more
Published on May 20, 2008
Efficient Video Delivery Over The Internet
In: Articles
While the days of low-quality stop animation may be a thing of the past, there is no denying that high quality video streaming is alive and well on the web today. Major media outlets stream significant amounts of their programming, amateurs are in on the game, and many users will simply expect video from certain content providers. This week, Lei Zhu brings us up to speed on the different methods that can be employed to get Flash video on to a site. Read more
Published on May 13, 2008
