With many sites overlooking the simple ALT in images, it’s no question that many need educating on this important topic. Statistics show that 15 to 30 percent of the population has a need for accessibility features on Web sites. Happily, people live longer and aging brings seeing and hearing challenges. Furthermore, seniors are responsible for … 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
HTML writers, new web designers, and intermediate web designers most likely have a library of books covering how to create web sites and making them interactive. Glaringly missing from most of these libraries, including my own, is a book on graphics and aesthetics. I admit I let Designing Web Graphics.3 sit on my shelf, along … Read more
How often have you read online articles that annoyed you with poor grammar and other mistakes? How often do you arrive at a Web site that makes it difficult to scan the page to find what interests you? We all make mistakes in writing, but recurrent mistakes are a turn-off for some readers. Considering there … Read more