Questions part 3: Testing
When asked about the success of his large company, Herb Kelleher said, “We have a strategic plan. It’s called doing things.” Process and plans are attempts to control the future by studying the past....
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When asked about the success of his large company, Herb Kelleher said, “We have a strategic plan. It’s called doing things.” Process and plans are attempts to control the future by studying the past....
View ArticleQuestions part 6: Aftermath and beyond
When asked about the success of his large company, Herb Kelleher said, “We have a strategic plan. It’s called doing things.” Process and plans are attempts to control the future by studying the past....
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How much is too much for page loads?
Websites that load quickly improve user retention and earn repeat visits. But performance is rarely a priority because real improvements require technical finesse that most clients are unwilling to...
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Getting crawled
Last week several people asked what special tags we add that encourage Google to scan a site. Truth is, we don’t. Search engines like Google and Bing scan text across the web. “Crawling” web pages is a...
View ArticleXML JS
I was recently asked for a script that would read data from XML. Unfortunately, the person asking didn’t know on which server-side language — PHP, ASP, Java, ColdFusion, etc — the site was based....
View ArticleBullseye
Larger targets are easier to hit. How to make links larger is no less difficult, if we’re willing to change the nature of a link. Easy navigation is a Big Deal in mobile design. While mouse cursors,...
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Color code
To humans, naming color can be slippery. One person’s blue is another person’s cyan. But to a computer, naming colors is a precise science. Hex colors like #ae4910 are more than random jumbles. There’s...
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Merge
Designing websites for smartphones is easy. Retrofitting websites, however, is a pain. It’s surprising how ineffective traditional site maps are at organizing information. We can’t keep thinking this...
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People build websites for many reasons: to reach a wider audience; to sell, promote, or express; to appease peer pressure. Novelty stopped being a reason circa 2001. In its place, we have of course: of...
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