Archive
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New Blog Direction
Closing down Siolon as a design firm and shifting the blog toward SharePoint, knowledge management, and enterprise information architecture.
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Business Site Design Cliches
Stock photos of smiling employees, splash pages, white-paper home pages, and font chaos. The worst habits in business site design, catalogued.
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User Interface Design For Programmers
Slides from my Day of .NET talk on user interface design for programmers, covering usability, information architecture, and user experience basics.
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Day of .NET Presentation
Speaking at the Central Ohio Day of .NET on UI design for programmers. The goal is explaining design thinking to people who don’t think like designers.
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CSS Browser Reset
A trendy topic amongst CSS’ers is the CSS reset. The idea is that you intercept the default browser stylesheet (that is used first in the…
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Form Layouts With CSS
Laying out forms with Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a complex topic. In light of many developers doing their first overall CSS layouts they often…
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Harvest Reports WordPress Plugin
When freelancing I use the Harvest application to manage all of my time tracking. It has made invoicing painless, and while I got it thinking…
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HTML 5 vs. XHTML 2: The Future of Web Standards
I recently gave a presentation by this title at the Dayton [Ohio] Web Standards Group Meetup. Here are the slides that I presented as well…
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jQuery: JavaScript That Doesn’t Suck
I hate JavaScript. I mean I really hate JavaScript. Dealing with different implementations of the DOM between browsers is a menace I couldn’t duplicate if…
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The Value-Up Paradigm
The paradigms I’m going to contrast are how we view the entire development process. I will refer to two different paradigms: the first is the…