I’m consistently amazed at the disregard many of us Web professionals have for context. It’s an easy trap to fall into. We have an idea, deadline, list of requirements, or technology we need to execute on, so we jump right…
It wasn’t too long ago that I considered my CSS to be efficient enough for mobile devices. After all, a well structured document degrades nicely when the styles are removed.
Then I moved back to my hometown, Nashville. Nashville,…
I don’t think this is what they meant by going Google.
If you know much about me, you probably know I’m a Google fan. I’ve been using their apps for a few years now, and they are virtually integrated into…
Short URLs come in handy when tweeting a link. Getting a short URL for a Flickr photo used to be a pain, but a while back they decided to make life a little easier for us Flickr/Twitter users.
Flickr has…
Most of the time your Web content is being referenced visually via an active link or something in print – but that’s not always the case. Sometimes we need to communicate a piece of content through spoken word. This…
I’ve been on both the selling and buying end of Web services for over 10 years. Over that time I’ve drawn some conclusions about how people sell their services, and from my survey of the landscape, there are a…
Several weeks ago I was visiting with a friend to discuss some design revisions to her Web site. As with most projects, the design direction was pretty loose – not lacking in direction, just the concrete measurables.
As we…
Accessing an individual status update on twitter used to drive me BONKERS! I could never remember what I needed to place in the URL to pull up one specific posts. I could easily access the post ID with FireBug, but…
If you’ve missed Cameron Moll’s nice right up “Is it time to move beyond 960?” I would suggest starting there before reading further.
I’m not trying to make an argument for or against moving away from 960, I’m just offering…
Strategy is king when you’re dealing with limited resources – extra true when you’re dealing with the Web.
I recently had a conversation with a friend who is constantly on the front-lines when dealing with limited resource while effectively executing…
iTunes and HTML5
Apple has been hinting at some of the killer things we can do with HTML5 and CSS2/3. Here is a quick example they rolled out within iTunes.
Click here to view the iTunes source.
If you missed the holiday…