Archive for April, 2009
Usable Accessibility
Tuesday, April 14th, 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 [...]
Tags: accessibility, quote, ui, usability
Posted in Web Standards | 2 Comments »
Form Security with Autocomplete
Friday, April 10th, 2009
I was looking through my blog this morning because I could have sworn I already wrote this post. I know I’ve had this conversation with Phil Nash of Unintentionally Blank. But I guess I never wrote it down? Oh well… One of my pet peeves when filling out a form is when I click in [...]
Tags: forms, ui
Posted in Security | 8 Comments »
Analyzing Home
Wednesday, April 8th, 2009
The “Home” link has been a staple on almost all of the Web sites I’ve made in the past 5 years, but lately I’ve 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 [...]
Tags: ui
Posted in Web Development | 6 Comments »
Using .htaccess to Prevent Bandwidth Theft
Thursday, April 2nd, 2009
Every once in a while Google Analytics will turn up a peculiar behavior where you can tell someone is linking directly to an image 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 (cross-domain projects); but it’s usually [...]
Tags: htaccess, HTTP
Posted in Security | 10 Comments »
Web Standards and the Shower Curtain
Wednesday, April 1st, 2009
Have you ever bought shower curtain rings and wondered if there were enough in the package to fit your shower curtain? Probably not. Why is that? Its because the shower curtain industry has standards, just like the standards we’re trying to implement on the Web. At some point in the process of creating shower curtains, [...]
Tags: business, content management, design, ui, Web Standards, Web Standards Curriculum
Posted in Web Standards | 5 Comments »
