web design

Your Landing Page Is Not As Popular As Mine

There is no need for me to prove to you that an optimization in your website's landing page will improve your Return on Investment (ROI) and your Rate of...

0 replies - 306 views - 07/17/08 by Alejandro Alvarez in News

The Accessibility Checklist I Vowed I'd Never Write

I have said on numerous occasions that there is no simple checklist that, when followed, will give you an accessible site without fail. There are simply too...

0 replies - 941 views - 07/15/08 by Schalk Neethling in News

CSS: Simple Rules for Better Organization and More Efficiency

Organization is not everything, but without organization, everything is nothing, one of my teachers used to say, and right he is. Almost everything benefits...

0 replies - 1012 views - 07/10/08 by Schalk Neethling in News

Genbook Announces New Channel-Partner Program For Web Developers

Adding Genbook’s “BookNow” button to websites helps web developers add online appointment-booking and scheduling functionality for their small-business...

1 replies - 217 views - 07/09/08 by Schalk Neethling in Announcements

Opera Dragonfly - The Next Level of Debugging For Web Developers

Debugging web sites and applications is a pain. Firebug has gone a long way to make it easier. With the release of the Opera 9.5 browser comes a new...

0 replies - 1441 views - 07/08/08 by Schalk Neethling in News

Optimizing CSS Controls with PNG Masks

After all the talk about css generated content, it is time to look at some other measures I took to keep as much styling control in css as possible. Up next is...

0 replies - 688 views - 07/08/08 by Niels Matthijs in News

CSS Nesting Specifics - When CSS Misbehaves

There are plenty of css bugs one can write about. Some are worth tracking because they are annoying and have a huge impact on our every day work, others...

0 replies - 2687 views - 06/27/08 by Niels Matthijs in News

WCAG 2.0 Release Candidate 5 of 5: Summary

In short: WCAG 2.0 is here, it’s ready, now get on and use it. Focus on the User One of the main things I’ve noticed about WCAG 2.0 (and which has been...

0 replies - 254 views - 06/26/08 by Schalk Neethling in News

Multilevel Navigation - A Possible Alernative

I do not know about you but I really dislike menu systems that go beyond the second level. Some menus seem to keep expanding and expanding. One of the problems...

0 replies - 606 views - 06/19/08 by Schalk Neethling in News

4 Mini Inspirations from An Event Apart New Orleans

An Event Apart is one of those events that every web developer would love to attend. The people, the topics and the knowledge shared is invaluable and gives...

0 replies - 216 views - 06/19/08 by Schalk Neethling in News

Web Designer Reputation: Convincing the World You Know What You're Doing

The legitimacy of web design as a profession is firmly established at this point. But in many ways it's still a vocation in limbo. We're caught somewhere...

0 replies - 383 views - 06/10/08 by ldminteractive in News

HTML5 Alternative Text, and Authoring Tools

There is still strong debate about whether or not the alt attribute should be a required attribute for the img element in the HTML5 draft  on the W3C's XTECH...

0 replies - 228 views - 06/07/08 by Schalk Neethling in News

Presentation Layer Performance Tuning

Typical conversations about Web performance tend to revolve around client/server latency, database performance, and the time it takes a server to render and...

0 replies - 768 views - 06/07/08 by accessibility in News

Presentation Layer Best Practices

With the adoption of W3C recommendations by most web browser manufacturers, client-side web development has finally reached "critical mass" in terms...

0 replies - 1745 views - 06/06/08 by accessibility in News

Google Style Did You Mean....? in PHP

On a new website I am developing for a client I had to add the usual "Did you mean... ?" in the search results for her. Si I started thinking for the...

1 replies - 10024 views - 06/06/08 by Alejandro Alvarez in News