Ruby on Rails for the Rest of Us Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Articles By Justin Williams Published on December 4, 2006 What Is Ruby On Rails? You’ve probably heard of Ruby on Rails, which has been generating noise in the web development field over … Read more
Sarah Horton Interview Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Interviews By Alex Barnett Published on September 19, 2005 Sarah Horton is an instructional technology specialist working in the Department of Academic Computing at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire. Digital Web Magazine talked to Sarah about her … Read more
Scalable Media Hosting with Amazon S3 Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Articles By Amazon Web Services Published on November 26, 2007 Imagine you have a small web site with big potential. You’re currently using a reasonably-priced web host that provides good value for the amount … Read more
Scope in JavaScript Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Articles By Mike West Published on September 11, 2006 Scope is one of the foundational aspects of the JavaScript language, and probably the one I’ve struggled with the most when building complex programs. I can’t count the … Read more
Scott Benish and Josh Kneedler Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Interviews By Nick Finck By Ben Henick Published on November 6, 2001 Digital Web: I’d like to begin by asking about Dreaming America. How was the company started? How did you choose the name? Scott Benish: dreaming … Read more
It’s in the Details: Seven Secrets of a Successful International Website Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Articles By Huiping Iler Published on January 15, 2007 Your customers want to feel like you are speaking to them. They want to feel like you understand them. This can … Read more
In: Columns > The $ & Sense of IT By Alan K’necht Published on June 16, 2004 “If you build it, they will come” might be the line from Field of Dreams but the same theory doesn’t apply to Web sites. What’s the good of building a great-looking Web site that no one knows about, … Read more
By Alan K’necht Published on August 4, 2004 We all know the importance of having a Web site rank well in search engine results for searches on specific keywords/phrases. If your Web site doesn’t have a page appearing in the top 10 search engine result positions (SERPs) the chances of someone clicking on your listing, … Read more
Separating Behavior and Presentation 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 May 19, 2004 The story so far: Separating presentation and structure started in the early days of the CSS revolution. It turned out to be rather … Read more
Separating behavior and structure 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 April 14, 2004 In my previous column I confessed a fear for “accessibility zealots” who really are anti-JavaScript zealots. More than once I’ve encountered a hostile … Read more
Seven Accessibility Mistakes (Part 1) Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Articles By Christian Heilmann Published on January 31, 2006 There are several reasons inaccessible Web products get published. One we discussed in my last article is that some clients just don’t care about accessibility. Their … Read more
Seven Accessibility Mistakes (Part 2) Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Articles By Christian Heilmann Published on February 6, 2006 This two part-article discusses reasons why some projects fail to result in properly accessible products. Last week we discussed the first three of seven accessibility mistakes … Read more
Seven JavaScript Techniques You Should Be Using Today Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Articles By Dustin Diaz Published on April 23, 2007 Whether or not your JavaScript is maintainable often seems to be relative to the task you’re trying to accomplish. You can follow best … Read more
The Seven Deadly Sins of Email Marketing Management Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Articles By Véro S. Pepperrell Published on March 27, 2007 It’s a common belief that email marketing is dead, and that we’ve now entered a Web 2.0 era of blogs, buzzing social … Read more
Shirley Kaiser Interview Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Interviews By Meryl K. Evans Published on October 23, 2006 Current State of Web Design and Working on a Project Digital Web: Last time we interviewed you was four years ago. What’s your opinion on the current … Read more
Simon Collison Interview Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Interviews By Carolyn Wood Published on December 4, 2006 Digital Web: Your book, Beginning CSS Web Development, was published a few months ago. It strikes me as being a bit more personal than the usual textbook, and … Read more
Simplicity vs. Innovation 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 November 25, 2002 Last month’s column focused on the general concept of user-centered design. This month presents a look at the more limited field of usability and … Read more
SlideShowPro Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Reviews > Product Reviews By Ken Westin Published on May 11, 2005 SlideShowPro is a component for Flash MX 2004 that creates XML-based customizable image galleries. It has lots of features, and it’s a steal at $20—especially considering the … Read more
Site Planning, the Red-Headed Stepchild of the Web Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Articles By Ben Henick Published on June 20, 2001 The Audience Is the End… What About the Beginning? This month’s issue of Digital Web drives home two points: Keep it simple, stupid. … Read more
Smarter Content Publishing Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Articles By Victor Lombardi Published on August 6, 2002 Do you remember the days before WYSIWYG word processors when you had to markup the text, much like we markup web documents using HTML? I don’t. I started … Read more
Smart CSS Ain’t Always Sexy CSS Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Articles By Martin Ringlein Published on July 15, 2008 There is an emerging desire to want to be sexy. When it comes to our CSS, we all agree that being bloated, slow, and messy … Read more
Integrating Social Media into a Web Content Strategy Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Articles By Britt Parrott Published on June 24, 2008 Whether you’re an employee or a consultant, it sometimes falls to you to drag an organization into the 21st century—and that often means … Read more
Soft Skills for Information Architecture Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Columns > IAnything Goes By Jeff Lash Published on September 24, 2003 While much of one’s success or failure depends on the skills specific to information architecture—like diagramming, documenting, organizing—an even greater indicator is soft … Read more
Speed Up Your Site: Web Site Optimization Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Reviews > Book Reviews By Jennifer Alvin Published on August 15, 2003 Staying competitive, and more importantly, keeping the client competitive,is an ongoing challenge. Many people and businesses have jumped on the high-bandwidth … Read more
Standards for distributed information architecture Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Columns > IAnything Goes By Jeff Lash Published on October 2, 2002 The articles in this month’s iteration of Digital Web Magazine all focus on standards, and their importance to the present and future of … Read more