Microformats Primer Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Columns > View Source By Garrett Dimon Published on November 14, 2005 By now you’ve probably heard of microformats and wondered what they are, exactly. Officially, they’re a set of simple, open data formats built upon existing and … Read more
Microsoft B2B Site Case Study Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Articles By Alex Barnett Published on September 8, 2004 Introduction In February 2004, Microsoft UK launched Advisor, an extranet targeted at business and technical decision makers in the mid-market. The end product was the result … Read more
Mind your phraseology! Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Articles By Christina Wodtke Published on August 13, 2002 Many moons ago I waited tables. One day our manager came down to tell us that from now on we were to refer to our customers as “guests.” … Read more
Molly E. Holzschlag Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Interviews By Dave Linabury Published on February 23, 2005 Digital Web: So this is quite likely your eleventy-umpteenth computer book. Am I correct? Molly E. Holzschlag: I stopped counting at eleventy-one. DW: How do you answer the … Read more
More Eric Meyer on CSS Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Reviews > Book Reviews By Tony Crockford Published on July 28, 2004 Are you right for this book? I have books on my bookshelf that I’ve never read. I bought them for the knowledge they … Read more
More Than Just a Footer Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Columns > IAnything Goes By Jeff Lash Published on February 4, 2004 While arguments about getting more links, content, and important elements “above the fold” are common, more sites are taking advantage of the entire … Read more
Book Review: The Myths of Innovation Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Reviews > Book Reviews By Tiff Fehr Published on June 11, 2007 Web professionals are well aware that we live in an age marked by an ever-increasing rate of innovation and change. Within the … Read more
Navigation Complex Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Columns > Keep It Simple By Peter-Paul Koch Published on December 17, 2002 Years ago I did some navigation research. My goal was to find out if any type of navigation was particularly suited to certain kinds of … Read more
On Digital Photography Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Articles By Stephen Voss Published on March 19, 2002 Nearly every day that I leave my apartment, and walk on 23rd Ave. in Portland, I see someone shooting away with their digital camera. Like most new technologies, … Read more
Optimizing Your Chances with Accessibility Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Articles By Brandon Olejniczak Published on March 10, 2004 There are many reasons that justify following W3C Accessibility and U.S. Federal Section 508 guidelines. The first, and most important, is the increasing use of the … Read more
Organic or Paid Marketing Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Columns > The $ & Sense of IT By Alan K’necht Published on June 2, 2004 Just like when a tree falls in the forest, and there is no one to hear it, the sound waves … Read more
Organizing Images with a Database Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Articles By Matt Thommes Published on May 30, 2005 With the advent of Flickr, images have proven to be a powerful way to communicate on the Web—even more effective than words. Flickr is a massive … Read more
Packaging Design for Web-based Products Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Articles By Luke Wroblewski Published on December 4, 2006 Rip. Crinkle. Pop. The sounds of unpacking that eagerly anticipated product you just brought home from the store are music to the ears. Each successive layer … Read more
Perfection Meets Reality Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Columns > View Source By Garrett Dimon Published on November 13, 2006 It’s easy to sit back and preach about how a web team should operate, but it’s rare that we really consider and appreciate the realities … Read more
By Ashmita Goswami Published on January 8, 2003 Before pursuing specific recommendations for Ford.com, Razorfish created this document to illustrate the complexity and considerations of the globalization process. The document defines common globalization terms, discusses reasons companies go global and methods of identifying and prioritizing of markets, identifies challenges faced by companies that have pursued … Read more
Persuasive Navigation Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Columns > IAnything Goes By Jeff Lash Published on December 17, 2002 Persuasive navigation is navigation that persuades a user to do something. That something can be anything that you want the user to do—buy a product, sign … Read more
Peter Merholz and Nathan Shedroff Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Interviews By Meryl K. Evans Published on October 8, 2002 Understanding UCD Business of UCD The Process Understanding UCD Digital Web: What is user-centered design (UCD)? What are its benefits? Problems? Peter Merholz: Contrary to … Read more
Peter Morville and Lou Rosenfeld Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Interviews By Meryl K. Evans Published on December /files/includes/10.css, 2002 IA Process Challenges Organizations, Businesses, and Uses IA Process Digital Web: We hear about Little IA and Big IA; tell us about these definitions and … Read more
Photoshop vs Fireworks Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Interviews By Nathan Smith Published on July 22, 2008 Photoshop. Fireworks. If you’re a serious web designer (and not using the GIMP) you’re going to be using one or the other. But which is best? I recently … Read more
PHPitfalls: Five Beginner Mistakes to Avoid Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Articles By Daryl L. L. Houston Published on October 6, 2004 What, a beginner make mistakes? Cruising through developer forums, we’ve all seen it: A new post with a subject line that reads: newbie … Read more
PHP and XML Sitting in a Tree Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Articles By Kerri Hicks Published on February 4, 2007 There are scores of ways to store, work with, and retrieve data on the web. Simple databases, relational databases, XML, even custom flat files … Read more
PHP For Designers In: Articles By Matt Mullenweg Published on March 31, 2004 I first considered calling this “PHP for the aesthetically inclined,” but that sounded pretentious and I’ve always been fond of using the term “designer” in a more universal sense. I have a grand romantic notion of a “designer” being not just the … Read more
Being a PHP Lumberjack Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Articles By Daryl L. L. Houston Published on March 23, 2005 How many times have you sat staring blankly at a screen trying to track down an elusive bug? We all know the drill: Stare at … Read more
Pictoplasma, anime, and DSOS1 Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Reviews > Book Reviews By Meryl K. Evans Published on February 27, 2002 Art books are reaching new heights and Pictoplasma is one of the first I’ve seen of this new genre. The others are Anime … Read more
Portable Social Networks, The Building Blocks Of A Social Web Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Articles By Ben Ward Published on July 1, 2008 Social networks as we know them—MySpace, Facebook, Twitter—each keep identity and personal relationships separate from one another. Every time you join … Read more