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Quick Tip 2 - Bringing Back Search with jQuery
June 28, 2009
Using jQuery to fix a usability annoyance that's bothered me for years. When you misspell something in a search box, click back to it, and your text is erased. [read more]
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Quick Tip 1 - Image Replacement
May 28, 2009
A quick tip on how to deal with that pesky :focus outline on links that use image replacement. [read more]
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Twitter and the Downfall of Social Networking
May 18, 2009
One of the great things about the folks at Twitter is that they really stick to what they are good at and they let the community define what they want out of the service. So much so that they have responded with some really great community-driven Twitter services. [read more]
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Usable Accessibility
April 14, 2009
Many times focusing on standards and guidelines puts the focus on the technical aspects of accessibility, and the human interaction aspect is lost. This problem can be avoided by adopting the broader definition of accessibility as a guiding principle. Instead of focusing only on the technical aspects of accessibility, it is important to recognize that usability is also an important aspect of accessibility. Consciously addressing usable accessibility helps clarify the difference between what meets minimum accessibility standards and what is usable by people with disabilities. [read more]
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Form Security with Autocomplete
April 10, 2009
One of my pet peaves when filling out a form is when I click in the payment field and my credit crard / bank account number drops down because it was saved in the browser from last time I made a payment on that site. How is it that developers on these sites overlook that huge security issue? [read more]
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Analyzing Home
April 8, 2009
The "Home" link has been a staple on almost all of the Web sites I have made in the past 5 years, but lately I have been wondering how important it is. I heard Steve Krug at An Event Apart Boston 2007 talk about how the "home" link should always be list first in your navigation, but do we really even need it at all? [read more]
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Using .htaccess to Prevent Bandwidth Theft
April 2, 2009
Every once in a while poking through Google Analytics will turn up a peculiar behavior where you can tell someone is linking directly to an image file hosted on your Web server. Sometimes it can be for good reasons like giving you credit for a project, or make sure files are synced up; but it is usually just out of ignorance or laziness. [read more]
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