Four days later, my previous post on accessibility continues to generate a lot of discussion. That’s a good thing. Unfortunately (and really, unsurprisingly), some of the more zealous members ...
There’s something I’ve been thinking about for a while but have a been hesitant to post, for fear of it being taken the wrong way, and fear of ...
In the 48 hours since I launched the new version of this site, I’ve been inundated with questions about Django, the Python-based web application framework I used to build ...
I’ve never rebooted before. Oh, I’ve redesigned, but never on May 1st, and never as part of an official Internet-wide ordeal. But this year, the timing seemed right ...
Which of the following is not a component of “web design?”
The so-called “Mobile Web” was a pretty hot topic at SXSW this past weekend, with at least two panels dedicated to it and mentions of it in several others. While ...
1&1 Internet (which might also be called 1 and 1 Internet or 1 & 1 Internet) is a piss-poor excuse for a service company, and I advise you to never ...
For this, the second entry in my series of posts about the Django template language (part one was an introduction), I’ve chosen to focus on its inheritance capability, which ...
Within the first few hours of my new job at World Online, I was tossed into the unfamiliar land of Django templates. In fact, the idea of using a template ...
It’s time for a new chapter in my life, it would seem. Last night I accepted a Senior Designer position working for The World Company in Lawrence, KS.
In the past couple of days, there has been a good bit of discussion in the web standards community about education and why there are still so many web professionals ...
Jakob Nielsen, everyone’s favorite usability expert, has published his Top Ten Web Design Mistakes of 2005.
The nature of Mr. Nielsen, in my humble opinion, is to be on ...
If you run a website of any kind, you know how important it is to get a quick, at-a-glance overview of the goings-on related to visits, referrers, searches, and the ...
Well, seems we’re a little late with the results of our first postcard design contest, but as you’ll see, we were pretty snowed under with entries. On top ...
Although I don’t know the exact date, I realized tonight that it was around Christmas time of 1994 that I wrote my first line of HTML. I was 18 ...
Virgin Mobile has deployed a new service to its wireless customers: “dialing under the influence prevention.” Seriously.
A recent survey by the company of more than 400 people found that ...
Late last week, Dirk Knemeyer posted a follow up to his original Digital Web article, The End of Usability Culture. Both articles generated some discussion in the blogosphere as well ...
Now that NBA Commissioner David Stern has come down with his sentences for the players involved in Friday’s epic Pistons/Pacers riot, who will be responsible for punishing the ...
With Thanksgiving in a week, I got to thinking about thinks I am thankful for this year. There are a handful of things I am thankful for every year — among ...
When I was a kid, baseball was life. My entire day, quite litteraly, was consumed by baseball. I’d go to school, where my friends and I would spend valuable ...
Research tells us that about 70% of American corporations use blue as their corporate color. Blue is defined by most experts to be a generic, calming color that is well-liked ...
Put together another groove in GarageBand tonight. This thing is just too fun. I’ve downloaded a ton of loops and even created many of my own.
Anyway, this one ...
If you’re a regular reader of Dave Shea’s mezzoblue, you probably remember his MOSe concept. The idea is simple: go ahead and use all the latest and greatest ...