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6 million reasons to pay attention to accessibility
A nearly three year old lawsuit has resulted in a $6 million settlement over accessibility problems at Target.com. Target has settled a class action lawsuit with the National Federation of the Blind...
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Google Says Dynamic URLs OK (Must update my soapbox!)
Google posted to their official weblog today a bit of background on how they can process dynamic URLs. A dynamic URL is one that contains lots of junk that humans can’t read, including symbols. A LOT...
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The Literate Web Developer
Rafe Coburn, a very long time blogger, posted today about how he is seeing more and more web developers who don’t know SQL very well. It seems to me, though, that actual knowledge of SQL seems to be...
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Designing for Mobile Devices with Web Standards
Nice article on A List Apart this month on using CSS style sheets for presenting web-based content on mobile devices: Return of the Mobile Style Sheet. It is a rather technical piece but if you are...
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R is for Open Source Statistical Analysis Programming Language
I read in the New York Times today about an open source programming language and environment for conducting statistical analysis. R, the Software, Finds Fans in Data Analysts: R is also the name of a...
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NYT API – FTW!
I saw via Twitter last week (sorry, can’t remember who posted it!) this post about the New York Times Newswire API. In essence, the Times has published an interface with which you can access their...
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Video: Mighty Morphing Event Web Sites
Here is a short video where I talk about my upcoming session at ASAE & the Center for Association Leadership’s Annual Meeting in Toronto this August. In the clip I discuss why it is so important to...
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Extreme Separation of Content Management and Presentation
Seth Gottlieb, of Content Here, posts some very good points about the extent to which you should separate the management of your content from the systems that actually publish them for your online...
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Web Career Tips for High School Students
Someone on a list I belong to asked for tips to share with high school students considering a career in the Web. Here were my four tips: 1. View source. 2. Build stuff for your friends. 3. What they...
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The IE6 Decision
More and more website publishers are deciding to drop support for Internet Explorer 6. This browser has notoriously poor, incomplete, and outright missing support for modern standards in web design and...
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