Just over a year ago, in his article To Hell with WCAG 2, Joe Clark announced that he had formed an invitation only group called the WCAG Samurai, which would publish errata for and extension to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0, making t
I’m not usually one for jumping onto various memes, but when Robert tagged me with the “5 blogs that make me think” meme I figured I could turn it into an opportunity to mention a few people whose writings I enjoy and find thought-
Let's explore the power of using the Intranet to further brand goals with internal audiences. Brand management groups at many companies have found the Intranet to be a powerful tool to accomplish the following on behalf of their brands:•Communicate
For most people who have learned how to use Web standards it is obvious that there are a number of business benefits associated with using Web standards to build websites.
Unfortunately it may be hard to argue for the use of Web standards
There are many web designers and developers who have used Westciv's self paced online courses over the years to teach themselves HTML and CSS. John Allsopp and Maxine Sherrin have put a lot of work into these courses, which are a good introduction t
I have been neglecting my weblog for a while. It's not that I haven't had any ideas or events to write about. On the contrary, life has been extremely busy lately. On April 27th I got married – which took a lot of preparation but was definitely wort
In the late 1990's I had the opportunity to chair the first conference focused on internal brand building. Almost a decade later this concept remains in its infancy for much of the business world. I'm reminded of this when I hear something similar t
A one-day workshop designed to cover technical aspects of CSS. It's aimed at developers but also anyone who wants to build highly flexible, easily manageable, standards-based websites with CSS and XHT
Having reviewed Microsoft Expression Web back in June 2006, giving it rating of 3 out of 5, I was glad of the opportunity to have a look over the final release version of the product, to see how well it supports designers in creating sites using CSS
Designers have only a fraction of a second to attract users’ eye and win over their loyalty. Clear visual structure, thought-out typography and moderate use of images are extremely important - as they can drastically improve the scanning process for
Back in December we asked, "Are you a part of a brand building organization?", and provided a checklist to help you assess your organization’s readiness to build brands. Today we're taking our checklist a step further, hoping you and your
It's hard to remember what the Web was like in 1995, when Jeffrey Zeldman designed his first site. But suffice it to say that in those days "WWW" might as well have stood for the Wild West Webâ€â€there were no rules and no best practices. In a way,
One of the hallmark attributes of web standards-based design is the concept that proper use of semantic (X)HTML and CSS completely abstracts the presentation of a site from its content. One key real-world benefit of this separation is that come...
As a web designer I’m faced with new hurdles and learning curves daily whether it’s trying to become the next Eric Meyers, or for this installments sake, something as simple as learning my way around a .NET page so I can go style certain elements af
In this overview we’d like to present some useful analytics services, validation tools and monitoring services you should be aware of. Some “standard� tools - such as W3C Validators - are skipped; instead we’ve tried to focus on tools you probably d
The team behind CSS3.info wants to share his experience of CSS3 with us, and wants nothing more than to simply be the biggest online resource covering CSS3!...
In my previous post about press kits, I wrote that press releases are often the anchor of your publicity efforts. To help ensure your potent prose sees the light of day, be sure your releases conform to accepted format standards. I dusted off
This is a post I've been meaning to write for a long time now. I've been delaying it purely because I wanted it to be perfect. I wanted to write with Zeldman-like virtue on why email, just like the web, needs to pay attention to web standards...