Issue 210January 16, 2006
Web 3.0
by Jeffrey Zeldman
Web 2.0 is a fresh-faced starlet on the intertwingled longtail to the disruptive experience of tomorrow. Web 3.0 thinks you are so 2005.
The Accessibility Hat Trick: Getting Abbreviations Right
by Colin Lieberman
“...abbreviations and acronyms stand out as one of the trickiest areas of AAA to implement well. In order to meet our three-part goal of standards compliance, backwards compatibility, and full accessibility, we need to give this aspect of our content a bit of thought.”
Issue 209December 19, 2005
Sensible Forms: A Form Usability Checklist
by Brian Crescimanno
”...we can make our users’ lives easier by thinking about the way people interact with our websites, providing clear direction, and then putting the burden of sorting out the details in the hands of the computers—not the users.”
Thinking Outside the Grid
by Molly E. Holzschlag
“There is a new kid on the block, and her name is ‘I’ve never designed with a table in my career.’”
Issue 208November 28, 2005
Printing a Book with CSS: Boom!
by Bert Bos, HГҐkon Wium Lie
“HTML is the dominant document format on the web and CSS is used to style most HTML pages. But, are they suitable for off-screen use? Can CSS be used for serious print jobs?”
Power to the People
by D. Keith Robinson
“We should be providing solutions that work for people, not the other way around.”
Issue 207November 08, 2005
High Accessibility Is Effective Search Engine Optimization
by Andy Hagans
“I have been a search engine optimizer for several years, but only recently have become infatuated with web accessibility. After reading for weeks until my eyes became sore, and painstakingly editing my personal website to comply with most W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, I have come to a startling revelation: high accessibility overlaps heavily with effective white hat SEO.”
Design Choices Can Cripple a Website
by Nick Usborne
”...just pause for a moment and think of all the design choices you have made over the last year, and the reasons why you made them. And think about the huge impact those choices might have had on the performance of the sites you worked on.”
Issue 206October 24, 2005
Good Designers Redesign, Great Designers Realign
by Cameron Moll
Too often, look and feel, color scheme, layout, and identity are presented as solutions to problems discussed in these conversations long before regard is given to other less-aesthetic issues that may very well be the root of the problem. The old warning against treating symptom rather than cause comes to mind.
Attack of the Zombie Copy
by Erin Kissane
”...the zombification progresses so gradually that you don’t realize it’s happening until your ‘About Us’ page begins to smell bad and try to bite your face.”
