On the heels of a scathing column on web design comes the Websites Gone Bad video. It’s kind of like those late-night Girls Gone Wild DVDs. Without the sunny beach resorts. Or the Mardis Gras beads. Or the whipped cream.
Don’t tease me with a splash or intro page unless you’re running an adult website. They serve no purpose other than wasting my time. Scale it down and add it as a feature on your home page. (screenshot)
I’ve been creating and publishing content on the Internet for more than a decade.
Back in those early days when I first began, one of the very few fundamental rules of web design was to use a browser-safe color scheme that could be properly displayed with graphics cards and CRT monitors that were limited to displaying [...]
I received an email from a marketing manager at work today in response to a user interface layout that our team proposed yesterday:
The product marketing position is that the functions which are not licensed should be visible on the screen but greyed out. They should not be removed from the screen. The rationale is that [...]
The way I see it, there are three basic types of experienced individuals involved in web development: the developer, the web developer, and the web designer.
Granted, we’ve all seen (or been stalked by) individuals that don’t fit into any of the three categories; members of this fourth group are the people that give the web [...]
I’ve spent the last several years focusing my career on the fundamentals of web design and usability. I’ll start the lecture with a few tried and true basic rules.
Sometimes, despite your best intentions, there are annoying roadblocks that force you to go against the mandate of creating well-formed code.
