I came across an article via Lifehacker about historical figures and productivity. I wasn’t surprised to see number one on the list is don’t work long hours.
Too often in the corporate world long hours are used as an indicator of productivity, which is totally artificial. Someone could sit here for twelve hours and do nothing, […]
Due to last week’s blizzard the CWSA’s first purely social event had to be postponed and is rescheduled for today. A note to all you foodies, Bier Markt/Bar Cento chef Jonathan Sawyer will be appearing on Iron Chef America tomorrow night on Michael Symon’s team. If you’d like to have the best burger in town, […]
This Saturday, March 7th the CWSA would like to present:
The First Semi-Annual Convocation of the Benevolent & Protective Order of Markup
Are you interested in CSS? Want to geek out? This is an opportunity to meet and socialize with the Cleveland Web Standards Association, as well as drink beer and eat some of the best food […]
Microsoft has released a beta of Internet Explorer 8.0
Internet Explorer 8.0 is a shift from previous versions in that it focuses heavily on complying with Web standards.
Isn’t that what they said last time? Support for HTML5 but not XHTML2- sounds like they just forced the industry’s hand.
Last night’s CWSA planning meeting was a great success. We’ve had a lot of new faces, some of them traveled pretty far to attend. Some topics discussed last night:
Trying to advance standards in the local web and business communities without being the CSS gestapo.
Involving other industries in our group. (Maybe we can find a lawyer […]
Symphony CMS. Symphony is a pretty nice looking, free web publishing system powered by XML and XSLT. I can’t wait until I have some free time to try it out.
IDSA Mideast Conference ‘08 (Columbus, OH)
Art + Science, the Mideast District Conference in Columbus, Ohio will explore the dichotomy of art and science, the […]
Working at a company whose traffic is largely impacted by holidays, I understand the extra consideration which goes in to making your site available for such occasions. Extra servers are tapped, caching systems are put in place and code is frozen. Two experiences in the past week reveal some companies, like Amazon and Webkinz, don’t […]
I pay every bill that enables me to do so online. I don’t like dealing with people over the phone, or worrying about whether or not the check I mailed will arrive on time. But in the last couple of years, instead of making this process easier, most companies seem to be complicating it.
I don’t […]
I’ve seen a lot of debate going on around the web as to the direction of HTML5 and XHTML2. I wasn’t really too worried about it, I use XHTML because it’s what I’m comfortable with, it forces me to write well-formed markup, and so far has always seemed like the appropriate solution. Recently my employer […]
Jeffrey Zeldman in the newest A List Apart, Understanding Web Design:
The winning sites look fabulous as screen shots in glossy design annuals. When the winners become judges, they reward work like their own. Thus sites that behave like TV and look good between covers continue to be created, and a generation of clients and art […]
Garrett Dimon gives eBay’s forms a much needed face-lift in this case study. Points of emphasis, using a blur to determine if your form has a clear hierarchy, better field and label relationships and bolder headers. Towards the end he mentions possibly removing the date of birth field.
I don’t know why eBay has chosen […]
There’s an ongoing debate in the industry about the validity of formal education in web design. Listening to Andy Rutledge’s podcast this weekend got me to thinking about the role my education has played in my career. I am certainly not qualified to say one way is right and another is wrong, but I can […]
So there aren’t any wolves actually in this post. Alana and I watched some show on National Geographic or Discovery Channel about a Swedish village plagued by wolves eating their children in 1820. I thought it would be documentary, but it was a dramatized reenactment, even better! Anyhow Alana and I decided Wolves of Gysinge […]
Okay so I’m lying, this is not a weekly feature, but I’m hoping it will be from now on. It’s easier for me to dump all the cool stuff I see in a week into one post than to sporadically post tidbits.
Devlounge has a great WordPress caching overview.
Max Kiesler talks about AJAX security, or more […]
Today marks the second year of World Usability Day. From Usability News:
World Usability Day was founded in 2005 with a mission to increase the public’s awareness of the need to make the services and products important to human life easier to access and simpler to use. Global issues such as healthcare, education and government are […]
I finally had a chance to make it to one of these meetups, in spite of inclement weather and parking in the wrong lot. I’ve been wanting to go for quite some time, but illness/client work/weather has always prevented me from doing so. Not to mention, once I get home and settled on Tuesdays it’s […]
Garrett Dimon has a great article today called Creating a Visual Language. As his example he highlights Amazon’s great use of color and iconography. It’s so important to have this thoroughly planned from the get go, especially in large scale enterprise sites
Results from A List Apart’s Web Design Survey 2007 have been published. While I applaud their efforts to gain some understanding of the industry, I have to believe the results are a little skewed. Think about what kinds of web professionals are more likely to be familiar with the A List Apart folks. Then think […]
Click here is one of the many banes of my web existence. It’s taken as common knowledge these days that click here as anchor text simply isn’t best practice, and we should instead be using contextual, meaningful copy. Yet lately I’ve been seeing a backlash, in the guise of usability improvements. Yes, click here text […]
Instead they’re still using the WordPress favicon in their blogs area. It’s surprising for me to see such a high traffic site choose a blogging platform instead of a full featured CMS. I presume they’re using some other CMS for the rest of the site, so it’s bizarre they’d deviate for a sub-section. I guess […]
NY Times catches up with the rest of the web, and stops charging for most access.
So I’ve been using Simplify Media for a month now, and it’s worked out great. First, the weird tag issue I was experiencing before actually has nothing to do with Simplify Media and instead has something to do with my iTunes configuration. Though I’ve yet to figure out how to rectify this. I do, however, […]
Last week the AG UI Team packed up our bags and headed to An Event Apart Chicago ‘07. We had a great time, learned a lot, and ate a lot of pizza. Overall, all of the talks were mostly informative and worth the trip.
My initial impressions were:
Wow there’s a lot of different kinds of […]
We headed straight into the office when we got off our flight, so I’m too tired for a real post, but I’ll post a full review of my AEA Chicago 07 experience in the next couple of days.
I’ll be in attendance at An Event Apart Chicago with the AG UI team. Not sure if I’ll have any time to post about the conference while there, but I’m not planning on it. I have some friends in town I’d like to visit, and I want to hit up some Chicago staples like Reckless, […]
20 blogs with a monochromatic palette. In art school they’d make us do just about any design project in black and white first. If it doesn’t work in black and white, it’s certainly not going to work in color. Sometimes taking the color out, just temporarily even, allows us to focus on basic elements of […]
This is a blog about adventures in design, and sometimes other crap. My name is Beth Dean and I’m a web designer from Cleveland Ohio. I work for Progressive Insurance as a UX Developer.
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