A Sordid Affair

A Sordid Affair Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Columns > Pro Dot Con By Peter Fielding Published on April 10, 2001 “I… am a complete… moron!” Now that we’ve got the moral of this story out of the way, we can carry on to the … Read more

A Recipe for Learning Web Design

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A Recipe for Learning Web Design Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Articles By D. Keith Robinson Published on March 3, 2004 Web design and its related fields are still relatively young in the grand scheme of things and are still developing. One of the questions … Read more

A Matter of Styles

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A Matter of Styles Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Articles By Ethan Marcotte Published on August 11, 2004 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 … Read more

Are Accessibility Statements Useful?

Are Accessibility Statements Useful? Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Articles By Leona Tomlinson Published on November 12, 2008 What is an accessibility statement? An accessibility statement provides website visitors with information on how to utilize any accessibility features implemented, together with known barriers and how … Read more

Architecting CSS

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Architecting CSS Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Columns > View Source By Garrett Dimon Published on July 18, 2005 With nearly ubiquitous standards support among modern browsers, we’re turning to CSS to handle presentational heavy lifting more than ever. The more we rely upon CSS, … Read more

Apples and Oranges

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Apples and Oranges Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Columns > Art of Interaction By Didier P. Hilhorst Published on June 9, 2004 Usability and design are two fields that collide more often than not. But why is that? Why can’t we all just get along … Read more

APIs and Mashups For The Rest Of Us

APIs and Mashups For The Rest Of Us Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Articles By Gareth Rushgrove Published on June 4, 2007 All the latest and coolest web apps seem to have an API these days. But what is an API? And why should you … Read more

Efficient Video Delivery Over The Internet

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Efficient Video Delivery Over The Internet Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Articles By Lei Zhu Published on May 13, 2008 They say a picture is worth a thousand words. In this day and age of digital media, video on your web site can be priceless. … Read more

Efficient Video Delivery Over The Internet

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Efficient Video Delivery Over The Internet Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Articles By Lei Zhu Published on May 13, 2008 They say a picture is worth a thousand words. In this day and age of digital media, video on your web site can be priceless. … Read more

The Education of Geeks and Freaks

The Education of Geeks and Freaks Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Articles By Tom Green Published on June 17, 2008 I am a teacher. The official title on my business card is “Professor, Interactive Multimedia”, and I teach at the School of Media Studies and … Read more

eCRM: A Virtual Reality Check For Your Business

eCRM: A Virtual Reality Check For Your Business Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Articles By Tej Kohli Published on July 29, 2008 Virtual marketplaces bear little resemblance to brick-and-mortar enterprises. This is precisely why electronic Customer Relationship Management (eCRM) is so crucial to online success. … Read more

Easy-peasy PHP 2

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Easy-peasy PHP 2 Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Articles By Jim Amos By Mike Papageorge Published on July 11, 2005 Simple Dynamic Content with PHP Easy-Peasy PHP was geared at being a simple introduction to using switches and includes in PHP. Several readers brought up … Read more

Easy-Peasy PHP

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Easy-peasy PHP Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Articles By Jim Amos Published on March 9, 2005 One of the greatest attractions of PHP is just how easy it is to pick up the basics. Comparatively, it can be quite difficult to begin learning some of … Read more

Interview with Doug Bowman

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Interview with Doug Bowman Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Interviews By John Allsopp Published on January 22, 2007 I first met Douglas Bowman in person in 2004, when he very kindly took up an offer to come and speak at the first conference I helped … Read more

Douglas Bowman

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Douglas Bowman Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Interviews By Craig Saila Published on March 18, 2004 This interview was conducted just prior to the start of the 2004 SXSW Interactive Festival – Ed. Digital Web: You’re now widely known as Web design expert, but some … Read more

Don’t Forget to Architect the Home Page

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Don’t Forget to Architect the Home Page Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Columns > Wide Open By David Wertheimer Published on March 24, 2004 One of the hardest things to do during Web site creation is to finalize a vision for the home page. So … Read more

Excerpt: Accelerated DOM Scripting with Ajax, APIs and Libraries

Excerpt: Accelerated DOM Scripting with Ajax, APIs and Libraries Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Articles By Jonathan Snook Published on October 22, 2007 JavaScript libraries have been around in one form or another for almost as long as JavaScript itself. As you go from project … Read more

Dollars & Sense of Web Analytics

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Dollars & Sense of Web Analytics 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 October 3, 2005 As Web developers, designers and marketers, we are quick to make recommendations to improve Web sites. Yes, we … Read more

Does Your Copy Hold Up To A Quick Glance?

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Does Your Copy Hold Up To A Quick Glance? Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Articles By Jessica Neuman Beck Published on February 20, 2007 Quick—what does your site’s copy say about you? Take a look at your stats, and you’ll see that a surprising number … Read more

Web Design and the DMCA: Giving and Getting Take Down Notices

Web Design and the DMCA: Giving and Getting Take Down Notices Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Articles By Gregory Rutchik Published on November 5, 2007 Does your client ask you to stand behind the content you create for their site? Most clients worth their salt … Read more

Digital Video for the Web

Digital Video for the Web Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Reviews > Product Reviews By Jesse Nieminen Published on January 22, 2002 Now that many people are surfing the net at broadband speeds, several web designers are experimenting with digital video. And from the looks … Read more

Digital Fashion

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Digital Fashion Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Articles By Daniel Jenett Published on November 23, 1999 Design is the visual expression of thoughts and feelings, and combines rational and emotional conditions. In digital media the focus is shifted to functionality, primarily because the development is … Read more

Digital Convergence: Insight into the future of Web design

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Digital Convergence: Insight into the future of Web design Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Articles By Dirk Knemeyer Published on May 5, 2004 Much of what is written about the Web has to do with the problems developers encounter today, such as a lack of … Read more

Devising a new paradigm for usable, maintainable Web applications

Devising a new paradigm for usable, maintainable Web applications Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Articles By Ka Wai Cheung Published on October 20, 2004 Note: This article assumes the reader has a working knowledge of basic object-oriented paradigms. In the Web community, usability engineering is … Read more