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Economical Usability Testing
Steve Krug convinced me to test even on a shoestring, so I tested this site’s redesign for sixty dollars with a Wufoo form and four Amazon gift certificates.
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Objectives in User Interface Design II
The W3C’s HTML Design Principles document covered two things my first list of UI objectives left out: internationalization and security.
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An Introduction to CSS
An introduction to CSS that I presented at my day job, posted here as a SlideShare embed in case others find it useful.
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Engaging the Entire Development Team
Leaving college meant learning that large software is not built alone. On why specialists still need a general knowledge of what everyone else does, and what poor communication costs a team.
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Tools For Web Designers
The resources that have helped me most in my career, all of them free, open source, or offering a free version: Firefox extensions, web applications, and the print books worth buying.
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Creating Rich Anchor Tags
The anchor tag is the first thing anyone learns and the most undervalued. A short tutorial on writing links that are meaningful, accessible and well-formed, starting with never writing click here.
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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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Summary of Recent Projects
Two design concepts ported to WordPress, including a satirical comics blog that needed post ratings and embeddable comic URLs. What each project required, and what the clients said.
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Host Your Own Website Tutorial
A favor for my roommate’s wedding became an excuse to host a site from a spare machine. In this tutorial I set up WAMP5, forward the right ports on a Linksys router, point a domain at the box, and add FTP and email.