Making the most of the Web as a communications medium can ensure Web sites take advantage of what the Web is today. Television, radio, telephones, and libraries are considered standard media and each one has its own characteristics and ways of making its mark regardless of the content sent via its medium. Curt Cloninger, author … Read more
Seeing your name in lights is always exciting, but not in this book because it means your Web page sucks! It’s more fun to learn how to do something by looking at what NOT to do. That’s the approach taken mixed with humor in Web Pages That Suck from authors Vincent Flanders and Michael Willis. … Read more
Art books are reaching new heights and Pictoplasma is one of the first I’ve seen. The others are Designer Shock’s DSOS1 : The User’s Manual and Anime. All three books are published by German publisher, Die Gestalten Verlag, and they’re onto something here. The book is a showcase of contemporary art created by international graphic … Read more
Note: Review is based on 1st edition. The second edition of the book is available. Web sites have come a long way since the first graphical browsers came out in the early ’90s. We’re seeing fancy pages made with XML, Java, PHP, CSS, Javascript, XHTML, and more. No doubt this has left web page designer … Read more
These six questions lead to the six characteristics that Nick Usborne of nickusborne.com and author of the upcoming book, Net Words: Creating high-impact online copy, has identified what interests customers when they visit a business Web site. When exploring Web site strategies to turn first-time customers into repeat visitors, many enterprises have failed to address … Read more
Eddie Traversa is an author, Web consultant, and DHTML, and SVG guru. His book, “Dynamic XHTML Developers Guide” is a joint project he worked on with Jeff Rouyer of HTMLguru.com fame. For those who are new to SVG, what is it? In a sense, we are all new to SVG, so it’s important to understand … Read more
FTP stands for File Transfer Protocol. It enables you to exchange files between two computers connected to the Internet. Typically when using FTP, one of these computers is your local computer (the one on your desk), and the other computer is one specifically designed to store files for people to access through the Internet. This … Read more
I don’t know how, but one of my mom’s famous quotes is circulating in a mailing list. She does use the computer and emails, but she is not an Internet surfer except to check out things that her children suggest. This quote, by far, stands out the most of all of her Momisms. Growing up … Read more
On November 7, 2001, iPlanet releases Netscape v4.79 and sends the Web standards world into an uproar. You may think that some people can’t let go of Netscape 4.79, so what’s the big deal? Jeffrey Zeldman of the Web Standards Project (WaSP) answers, “As long as there is a ‘new’ 4.x browser on the market, … Read more
Jeffrey Zeldman: Designer, Author, Visionary, and Speaker Jeffrey Zeldman is an outspoken web designer, author, and speaker. His book, Taking Your Talent to the Web has received high accolades. Zeldman is the publisher and creative director of A List Apart, co-founder and current group leader of The Web Standards Project, a grassroots coalition fighting for … Read more