Today, at the time of this writing, Google posted a blog stating they were dropping support for old browsers. They stated: The web has evolved in the last ten years, from simple text pages to rich, interactive applications including vide ...

People are creative. It's a fact of the state of humanity. People want to make things. It's built into the human condition. But there is a difference between haphazard creation and focused, goal-oriented development. Andy Rutledge sta ...

When given a task of making search terms and frequetly visited pages more accessible to users, the uninitiated fire and fall back. They leave in their wake, broad, shallow sites with menus and navigtion which look more like weeds than an ...

Most content on the web is managed at the page level. Though I cannot say that all systems behave in one specific way, I do know that each system I've used behaves precisely like this. Content management systems assume that every new pie ...

Nothing like a nod to the reverse mullet to start a post out right. As I started making notes on a post about findability, something occurred to me. Though it should seem obvious, truly separating presentation from business logic is key ...

User self selection is a mess. Let's get that out in the open first and foremost. As soon as you ask the user questions about themselves directly, your plan has failed. User self selection, at best, is a mess of splash pages and strange ...

Every time I wander the web I seem to find it more complicated than the last time I left it.  Considering this happens on a daily basis, the complexity appears to be growing monotonically.  It has been shown again and again that the attent ...

It's been a while since I last posted, but this bears note. Search engine optimization, commonly called SEO, is all about getting search engines to notice you and people to come to your site. The important thing about good SEO is that it w ...

I only post here occasionally and it has crossed my mind that I might almost be wise to just create a separate blog on my web server.  I have these thoughts and then I realize that I don't have time to muck with that when I have good blog ...

It's been a while since I have posted. I know. For those of you that are checking out this blog for the first time, welcome. For those of you who have read my posts before, welcome back. We're not here to talk about the regularity (or lack ...