Just Build It: HTML Prototyping and Agile Development

Just Build It: HTML Prototyping and Agile Development Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Columns > View Source By Garrett Dimon Published on March 6, 2006 Chances are, you use some sort of prototyping to illustrate Web interfaces for clients and stakeholders, and rely on those … Read more

jQuery Crash Course

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jQuery Crash Course Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Columns > The Carpenter’s Workbench By Nathan Smith Published on October 8, 2007 As developers, we have more and more JavaScript libraries to choose from and, of course, the option not to use any at all. Over … Read more

Joshua Davis

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Joshua Davis Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Interviews By Nick Finck Published on November 14, 2000 Digital Web: Joshua, we are honored to do this interview with you. For those who may not be as familiar with your work as we are, could you please tell … Read more

Joe Gillespie

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Joe Gillespie Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Interviews By Dave Linabury Published on April 6, 2005 Digital Web: You’ve been on the Web since ’93. That’s nearly 50 cat years. Coming as I do, from the fascinating and scrupulously honest world of advertising, what about … Read more

Joe Clark

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Joe Clark Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Interviews By Craig Saila Published on October 29, 2003 Accessibility in general Techniques Captioning Accessibility in general Digital Web: “Accessibility” is now part of the Web development community’s lingua franca. However, it’s often used as shorthand to mean … Read more

Jimmy Chen

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Jimmy Chen Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Interviews By Nick Finck Published on July 10, 2001 Digital Web: Jimmy, could you start out by telling us a little bit about your background? Chen: Hi Nick. Well, my father was the first one who first taught me … Read more

Jeremy Keith Interview

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Jeremy Keith Interview Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Interviews By Carolyn Wood Published on February 26, 2007 Digital Web: Your new book is titled Bulletproof Ajax. For those readers who haven’t been following the hoopla, what is a simple definition of AJAX, and where have … Read more

Written Content To Keep the Content Contented

Written Content To Keep the Content Contented Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Columns > Pro Dot Con By Peter Fielding Published on November 6, 2001 con·tent (kOn-tent) 1. n. The subject matter of a written work, such as a book or magazine. Often used in … Read more

Writing Semantic Markup

Writing Semantic Markup Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Columns > Web 2.0 Design: Bootstrapping the Social Web By Joshua Porter By Richard MacManus Published on September 5, 2005 The biggest and most welcome change on the Web in the last five years has been the … Read more

Wildform Flix Pro 2.5

Wildform Flix Pro 2.5 Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Reviews > Product Reviews By Jesse Nieminen Published on July 30, 2002 If you have recently upgraded to Flash MX, then you might ask, “why do I need a separate video processor for Flash?” Well, if … Read more

Why the Tech Industry Needs to Change Its Language

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Why the Tech Industry Needs to Change Its Language Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Articles By Jonathan Follett Published on May 15, 2006 The acronyms and jargon that litter the Internet landscape fail to convey meaning because they’re based on confusing technical specifications with no … Read more

Why Textpattern? An Interview with the Authors of Textpattern Solutions

Why Textpattern? An Interview with the Authors of Textpattern Solutions Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Interviews By Andrea Schwandt-Arbogast Published on July 2, 2007 Digital Web: Web developers have many options these days when choosing a CMS or blogging engine. Why has Textpattern become your … Read more

Why Opera?

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Why Opera? Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Interviews By Matthew Pennell Published on January 7, 2008 When we look at the web browsers available today, we are seeing an increasingly high level of web standards support (including some support for new and future standards such … Read more

Why Gecko Doesn’t Matter Yet

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Why Gecko Doesn’t Matter Yet Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Articles By Glenn Davis Published on February 7, 2001 Standards support is a wonderful dream. But in this day it is still just that, a dream. It’s a dream yet that Gecko will make a … Read more

Why Do Web Startups Die? Lack of Alphalpha

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Why Do Web Startups Die? Lack of Alphalpha Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Articles By Dave Goldenberg Published on June 10, 2008 Internet startups are generally as successful as a nerd in a singles bar. Ventures that get off the ground rarely get knee-high. Why? … Read more

Where Did My Beautiful Internet Go?

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Where Did My Beautiful Internet Go? Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Articles By Sean Madden Published on January 29, 2007 Most web designers worth their salt know the phrase web design is a laughably broad term. Designing for the web entails understanding interaction design, information … Read more

When Design Motivates

When Design Motivates Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Columns > DigiSect By Stephen Van Doren Published on January 22, 2002 W e all know the story. A highly talented designer goes out on his own, hoping to strike it rich with some highly dynamic, ultra-slick, … Read more

What makes those damn clients so difficult?

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What makes those damn clients so difficult? Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Articles By Wanda Cummings Published on October 15, 2000 You know the old saying: an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. The same holds true in dealing with clients. Oh … Read more

What happens when the people come?

What happens when the people come? Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Articles By David Eames-Harlan Published on September 24, 2001 Every experienced web designer knows that web statistics are important. Okay, now quick, think of a time when you responded directly to changes in web … Read more

What’s happening? A new look at Web pages

What’s happening? A new look at Web pages Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Articles By Miraz Jordan Published on November 6, 2001 Web designers have been involved with the Internet for a long time, at least in Internet years. We begin to take the users … Read more

Web Standards Solutions: The Markup and Style Handbook

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Web Standards Solutions: The Markup and Style Handbook Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Reviews > Book Reviews By Krista Stevens Published on October 6, 2004 The one thing those who work and play in the world of Web design know to be true is that … Read more

Creative Use of PNG Transparency in Web Design

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Creative Use of PNG Transparency in Web Design Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Articles By Jeff Croft Published on May 28, 2007 PNG, GIF, and JPEG The PNG image has been widely overlooked by the web design community—and mostly for good reason. Until recently, it … Read more

Web-Safe Color Palette Discussion

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Web-Safe Color Palette Discussion Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Articles By Makiko Itoh By Nick Finck Published on May 17, 2001 Back in September 2000, Hadley Stern and David Lehn of Razorfish wrote an article for WebMonkey provocatively titled “Death of the Web-Safe Color Palette.” … Read more

Web ReDesign: Workflow That Works

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Web ReDesign: Workflow That Works Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Reviews > Book Reviews By James McNally Published on January 3, 2002 Overview I’ve been looking for a good book on the process of web design for a while now. David Siegel’s The Secrets of … Read more

Web Redesign 2.0

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Web Redesign 2.0 Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Reviews > Book Reviews By Krista Stevens Published on January 26, 2005 Working as a Web professional in today’s world, you will get to design a site only once. If you’re good and lucky, you’ll get to … Read more