My five-year-old finds the old camera with batteries still in it, but no film. He flashes away at everything in the house making us all blind. I plan to get him and his older sister a digital camera with a memory card, so they can take as many pictures as they want and nothing is [...]
Lots of fun happening over at Mike Davidson’s place. Mike who? He’s just the guy who manages a little site called ESPN. He shares his opinion on validation and many follow with their own in the comments. Amazingly enough, no spam in the comments. Dave responds with his perspective. Too simple? Maybe. Maybe not. I am [...]
Lane shares his opinion in that 90% of usability testing is useless. I think the best testing is getting Mom or Uncle Bob to use the Web site while you take notes. Maybe it’s a little extreme, but it depends on the site. Mom and Uncle Sal are perfect for eBay and Amazon since these sites [...]
Book review of Persuasive Online Copywriting is online. Though this book has been out for a while, its content remains very relevant.
Draw your customers in with a handful of powerful copy. No, no, you don’t have to go to college to make it happen nor do you have to buy a doorstopper-sized book, which gets dusty before you muster the strength to crack it open. Are you like me? A kid in a candy store when it [...]
I could not imagine what new reason The real reason you should care about web standards would provide as so many have been written to justify the reasons for designing with standards. Believe it or not, this one offers one I had not read to date. You’ve heard about Atom vs. RSS. You’ve heard about different [...]
Just have to drop a note to say Happy Anniversary to my husband and partner in crime of 15 years. Here’s to many more!
Posted a brand new gotcha today. It’s a surefire way to prevent people from reading your mail.
Alan K’necht has a great article at Digital Web on organic and paid marketing. In reading the title, I thought, “What the hey is organic marketing?” Simply put, it’s word-of-mouth marketing. Alan explores each and which is right for a site.
Over at the InformIT blog, I’m covering PHP for the next week or so starting with installing Apache.