Ginger and I are debugging a client site and we briefly discussed/complained about wireframes. To which, she helped me come to this conclusion: Building solely from wireframes is like driving somewhere with only a picture of the house you’re supposed to get to.
I’m just posting this article on web standards so that Sandy and Jason can fight it out to the death. These days, the rebel youth aren’t so busy admiring Marx as they are giving each other tutorials on how to use XHTML Strict. Bravely battling JavaScript menus and eradicating layout tables, admonishing us to “please
Software Engineering for Internet Applications, seen on . Great information and advice for anyone who works building, umm, Internet applications. Thankfully, low on the code/jargon and high on the concepts/ideas scale. I’d love to send it around at work but the people who’d most benefit from it are the least likely to read it. From
The BloggerCon wiki for Making Blogs Make Money is an excellent and pretty thorough summary of different way for generating revenue with a blog. A lot of these ideas, of course, apply to any web site.
My annoyance at using “click here” for links a few weeks back inspired an idea for a quick cartoon that I have yet to put down on paper. Luckily someone has collected all the reasons why click here is bad text to use in links: “Click here” just looks stupid. “Click here” looks especially stupid
Human Factors International rounds up ten usability principles for web design. Nothing completely earth shattering. Numbers 8 and 9 more of the clients I work with need to take to heart: 8. Know user tolerances Users are impatient. Design for a 2-10 second maximum download. Reuse header graphics so they can load from cache. Avoid
Reverend Jim evaluated the Syntax Web Framework we umm, inherited, and use at work. Can’t say I disagree with any of his critiques.
I just discovered Reverend Jim’s blog and its got lots of good php related postings.
PHP Anthology, Volume 2: Applications. Chapter 5: Caching: For example, the content delivered by a dynamic page may change once a day, so there’s certainly a benefit to be gained by having the browser cache a page-even if only for twenty four hours. It’s usually possible to live with both problems given a small PHP
CMS Wiki A brand new wiki has just been established on content management systems. It is designed to be a central resource on CMS issues, products, features, and consultants.