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 ...

If there is one thing that I feel can be best learned from programming for the internet it's modularity.  Programmers preach modularity through encapsulation and design models but ultimately sometimes it's really easy to just throw in a ha ...

I have a particular project that I work on every so often. It's actually kind of a meta-project as I have to maintain a web-based project queue and management system, so it is a project for the sake of projects. Spiffy eh? Anyway, I haven' ...

Happy new year! Going into the start of the new year, I have a project that has carried over from the moment I started my current job. I am working on the information architecture and interaction design of a web-based insurance tool. Somet ...

Something that I have learnt over time is how to make your site accessible for people that don't have your perfect 20/20 vision, are working from a limited environment or just generally have old browsing capabilities. Believe it or not, pe ...