Design & Development Articles
Programmers: Web 2.0 Forms
Online forms have become much more elegant and usable in the last couple of years as developers take advantage of “Web 2.0” tec... 4 Comments | Read More »
Frameworks For Web Designers
I've written previously about frameworks and how they help developers build web applications. For the most part, my praise of f... 1 Comment | Read More »
Determine Analytics Questions In Advance
Once a web analytics solution is installed, the most common initial use is to validate some past event. User testing shows th... 2 Comments | Read More »
Testing Site Accessibility
Here's how to perform a standard test to see if your website and store are accessible to the vision impaired. Let It Be Seen B... 3 Comments | Read More »
What Makes A Site Effective?
A client recently asked me to do a quick-and-dirty analysis of a half dozen competitor websites. I decided to look at each com... 4 Comments | Read More »
Programming Notes: Importance of Hand Coding
Let's be honest. Most people do not go into website design because they enjoy writing code, or because they want to root throug... 18 Comments | Read More »
Software Frameworks
In broad terms, a software framework is a code library that is designed to facilitate software development. The idea is that a... 4 Comments | Read More »
Video Tutorial: Script.aculo.us Effects
Script.aculo.us is a JavaScript framework that is built upon the wildly successful Prototype JavaScript libraries. Script.acu... 8 Comments | Read More »
Video Tutorial: Tabbed Content - Part 2
Tabbed content appears more and more frequently in web pages, and is an interesting way to simultaneously save page space and ... 9 Comments | Read More »
Video Tutorial: Tabbed Content
Tabbed content appears more and more frequently in web pages, and is an interesting way to simultaneously save page space and ... 8 Comments | Read More »
Video Tutorial: JavaScript Tooltips
You've probably seen those useful "tooltips" text boxes that are displayed on some websites when you roll over a specific link... 0 Comments | Read More »
Nine Simple Ways To Speed Up Tedious Tasks
Because I’m all about automation of the tedious of tasks, this month I’m offering up some key, yet very simple ways, to speed u... 2 Comments | Read More »
Video Tutorial: Validating A Form With JavaScript
In form validation two common questions often arise. The first is how do you ensure once you've asked for an email address on... 7 Comments | Read More »
TechSupport: "What's A Relational Database?"
Q: Our web developer tells us that our ecommerce site uses a relational database, but I don't understand what this means. Could... 3 Comments | Read More »
Tech Support July 2007: Accessibility
I keep hearing about accessibility. What is it and why is it important? Accessibility, in the context of a website, is the m... 0 Comments | Read More »
Protect Data From Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) Attacks
Security is always going to be a concern for both developers and ecommerce business owners alike, since providing a secure envi... 4 Comments | Read More »
Video Tutorial: CSS Design, Part Two
In the conclusion of our two-part video tutorial on CSS layout and design, we will take the layout we created in the beginning... 29 Comments | Read More »
Video Tutorial: CSS Design, Part One
Designing search engine friendly websites can be intimidating, particularly for designers who are just learning how to use CSS... 14 Comments | Read More »
Web Conversion Strategy: When Design Dominates
A local business magazine had written an article reviewing the website designs of various local companies. As you may imagine, ... 8 Comments | Read More »
Critique Part Four: Site Search
The Problem: The results aren't always relevant. The Fix: A search for "snowboard" returns wax as the top result — but no snow... 3 Comments | Read More »
