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Links or Bookmarks?
WordPress could not decide what to call the section then named Blogroll. I argue for Links, especially for anyone using WordPress as a CMS, and point to the vote.
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The Average Web User
Designing for an audience means knowing what they browse with. I work through W3Counter’s global figures and my own stats to sketch the average web user, and why you should not trust either too far.
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A Tutorial On Tutorials
A pointer to Dan Richard’s article on writing effective tutorials, and its blunt opening argument: if you are writing one for traffic rather than to teach, do not bother.
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The Greatest Failure of Web 2.0
I like the Web 2.0 applications, but they refuse to talk to each other. On interoperability and reduced sign-on as the shortcoming keeping the whole movement from wider adoption.
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Ten Greatest Web Design Taboos
I helped teach an introductory web design class and wrote up the ten mistakes I most wanted the students to avoid, from splash pages to designing only for your own screen.
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Proper Design with Web Standards
Inefficient markup costs bandwidth, scalability and maintenance. I make the case for W3C standards and for the separation of structure, presentation and behavior that HTML was always meant to have.