Freelancing for an extra thick wad of greenbacks to pad your back pocket is every Web designer’s dream. Wrangling up your own clients, managing the entire creative process and collecting your due reward is a great accomplishment, and the process can be more fulfilling than the daily grind of a full-time job. Yet, it can … Read more
Columnist Birthplace: Bethlehem, Pennsylvania Employer: American Electric Power (AEP) Title/Role: Senior Interactive Designer/ Creative Director Personal Web site/Portfolio: http://www.ari02.net Memorable Quotes: “When principles of design replicate principles of thought, the act of arranging information becomes an act of insight.” Edward R. Tufte ” Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the … Read more
So today at Gnomedex Microsoft will be announcing extended support for RSS. Read that carefully, we’re not talking about better support for RSS, we’re talking about an extension to RSS. They want to be able to do e-commerce via RSS. Yes, you read that correctly. The last thing we need now is yet another fork … Read more
So today at Gnomedex Microsoft will be announcing extended support for RSS. Read that carefully, we’re not talk about better support for RSS, we’re talking about an extension to RSS. They want to be able to do e-commerce via RSS. Yes, you read that correctly. The last thing we need now is yet another fork in … Read more
Ok, I mostly just wanted to use that for a blog entry title, but it is an important issue. A lot of people rely on stats for their web sites (see the posts over at Karl Nelson’s site), but more often than not, the stats are a far cry from even the best guess. Tim Bray … Read more
Nick Finck February 5, 2005 at 11:57 AM Add to Delicious or Add to My Yahoo! It appears that the entire first edition of Information Architecture for the World Wide Web by Louis Rosenfeld and Peter Morville (AKA “The Polar Bear Book”) is now all online for your reading pleasure right here. I still have a hardcopy of the … Read more
As many of you may already know during his keynote address at the RSA conference, Bill Gates announced that Microsoft will be releasing a new beta version of Internet Explorer 7.0 for XP SP2 this summer. Going off only official news there seems to be some misinformation already circulating. As we understand it there won’t be any … Read more
Recently I gathered feedback from several experts within the web industry and asked them to give me their top 10 favorite web companies to work for. There is no criteria here as to who does and who does not qualify. They can be sole proprietorships or large multi-national corporations. They can be an army of … Read more
Nick Finck December 15, 2004 at 8:53 PM Rather than posting about my web predictions for 2005 or rambling off a list of products or tools you must have, etc. I have decided that this year I will post a list of things you should have or be doing on your web site or Intranet. … Read more
In the beginning, business approach to technology was one of cautious scepticism. Before any new technology was adopted be it the telegraph, the telephone, or a computer system, business needed to ensure that the technology would have a positive impact on their bottom line. During the later part of the 20th century, businesses lost sight … Read more
Rather than posting about my web predictions for 2005 or rambling off a list of products or tools you must have, etc. I have decided that this year I will post a list of things you should have or be doing on your web site or Intranet. After all, we are living in a modern … Read more
Nick Finck November 14, 2004 at 6:52 PM Add to Delicious or Add to My Yahoo! Since the browser stats that we posted in October seemed to raise a lot of eyebrows. Well, while checking my browser stats out this month I was pretty shocked at the results. I think you will have to see this to believe … Read more
Since the browser stats that we posted in October seemed to raise a lot of eyebrows. Well, while checking my browser stats out this month I was pretty shocked at the results. I think you will have to see this to believe it. First, go read the October post and then contrast that to these current stats: … Read more
Former Columnist Birthplace: Amsterdam, the Netherlands Employer: self Title/Role: freelance web developer personal Web site/Portfolio: http://www.quirksmode.org/ Memorable Quotes: “Keep it Simple” Digital Web Articles Forms, usability, and the W3C DOM Published on May 30, 2003 Keep it Simple Published on August 26, 2002 Fluid Thinking Published on October 2, 2002 Client-Centered Design Published on October 23, 2002 Simplicity vs. … Read more
Nick Finck September 3, 2004 at 12:14 PM Add to Delicious or Add to My Yahoo! Ok, so I have done some deep researching about “how many is too many” (as far as links and information bits on a page) and I thought I would share some of this with the Digital Web Magazine readership. Most of … Read more
Ok, so I have done some deep researching about “how many is too many” (as far as links and information bits on a page) and I thought I would share some of this with the Digital Web Magazine readership. Most of my research pointed to this paper, The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two: Some … Read more
Until recently, cascading style sheets (CSS) were the most tragically hip technology available online. Touted as the way to create page layouts by, well, the folks that wrote the specification, style sheets were long denied any serious consideration in corporate development environments. Poor browser support stranded CSS in the “isn’t that nice” realm of Web development, a technology … Read more
Cameron Adams is holding a survey that he hopes will settle the dispute about whether designers are really any different from man walking down a street. He explains more in his post Designers vs. The Real World: Favorite color. If you are a designer or even if you are not a designer go and take the … Read more
There is something to be said about the lack of credit blogs and community news sites give to their sources. Make no mistake, Digital Web Magazine is a firm believer in the code of Weblog Ethics and follows those guidelines religiously. What is very interesting is the number of blogs and sites out there who clearly gathered … Read more
Looking Back It wasn’t so long ago that dotcom startups, new media, and break-out Internet companies were pushing their name on the general public through various print ads, massive public banners, radio and television spots, as well as ridiculous and outrageous publicity events. All of these advertising methods proved an effective way to get their … Read more
Nick Finck July 31, 2004 at 11:03 AM Following Doug Bowman’s post on Throwing Tables Out the Window Richard Rutter has taken to task Real life savings through Web standards. This is very reminiscent of Keith Robinson’s post on Web Standards ROI this last June. Shirley Kaiser also voiced in with her comments recently. Doug followed up his post with a post … Read more
Following Doug Bowman’s post on Throwing Tables Out the Window, Richard Rutter has taken to task Real life savings through Web standards. This is very reminiscent of Keith Robinson’s post on Web Standards ROI this last June. Shirley Kaiser also voiced in with her comments recently. Doug followed up his post with a post on Projected Savings. For the record, I never had … Read more
There is one rule in web design that we have stated many times before only to debate it and debate it again. We even went so far as to prove it and then defined it. I must admit serif typefaces look a lot better on a Mac with its aliasing, but that is about it… it looks better, it doesn’t perform better. We … Read more
Nick Finck May 13, 2004 at 13:30:00 PM Ok, things this week are going to be a little bit different for everyone including you, our readers. First, yes we have a new issue out entitled The Transformation of an Industry, but even more interesting is that today marks the eight anniversary of our digital-web.com domain. To … Read more
The Evolution of Corporate Web Sites By Richard MacManus published on April 28 2004 Hard to believe, but corporate Web sites have been around for over 10 years now. It’s fascinating to see how they have evolved over the years, from the early days of magazine-style brochureware to the most recent trends of two-way Web interfaces. … Read more