Digital Convergence: Insight into the future of Web design
Posted on Mar 23, 2008 03:37:26 PM
Much of what is written about the Web has to do with the problems developers encounter today, such as a lack of uniform standards and accessibility compliance. While on one hand that is appropriate—providing knowledge and skills for today’s challenges—on the other, this tight focus on the here-and-now is doing us a disservice. We continue to operate in a reactive space, one where the way we are thinking is not attuned to the Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Convergence, Design, Digital, Future, Insight, intoGreasemonkey: Code Injection is Bliss
Posted on Dec 26, 2007 02:56:34 AM
Don’t you hate it when someone develops an idea that’s been in your head for a while? Ever since I started messing around with web pages many moons ago, I had this “thought” about developing a tool that would allow me to alter the HTML sent to my browser to suit my own needs. But, while I wasted my time chasing girls and drinking beer, the mind readers who created Greasemonkey came up with such a tool.
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Tags: Bliss, Code, Greasemonkey, InjectionSite Planning, the Red-Headed Stepchild of the Web
Posted on Dec 22, 2007 04:09:37 AM
The Audience Is the End... What About the Beginning?
This month's issue of Digital Web drives home two points:
Keep it simple, stupid.It's the audience, stupid.
The point to this tutorial is not to reinforce these messages in the same style that you see in the rest of the issue. Had I wanted to do that, I could have written about UI design, white space, or "ommitting needless words."
Those are easy.
What hasn't Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Headed, Planning, Site, StepchildBuilding a Website for Analytics
Posted on Nov 15, 2007 05:43:29 AM
How to get it right the first time around
Implementing a web analytics solution is a mission-critical activity for any business serious about succeeding online. Without a comprehensive ability to analyze your site’s traffic, you’ll be unable to determine the effectiveness of your website, online marketing campaigns, and overall online business objectives.
Many companies don’t think about measurement when building Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Analytics, Building, Website10 Tips For Your First Email Campaign
Posted on Nov 7, 2007 12:54:57 PM
Picture the scene—you’ve just finished a cool new website for a client, and she’s so happy with the results that she wants you to help her with Phase Two of her business plan: email marketing. You just built an entire website—one little HTML email newsletter couldn’t be that hard, right?
Actually, there’s more to it than designing a pretty email (just like there’s more to website development than a cool navigation Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Campaign, Email, First, Tips, yourThe Transformation of an Industry
Posted on Sep 23, 2007 07:29:46 AM
By Nick Finck
When Krista Stevens asked me to write a short piece about the history of Digital Web Magazine in tribute to the site’s eighth birthday this May, I thought about what kinds of things I would write about. The idea crossed my mind to start at the beginning by explaining how I got the idea, why I purchased the domain and what made me turn it into a full-blown, online publication, but then I realized that this is not Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Industry, TransformationClient Side Load Balancing for Web 2.0 Applications
Posted on Aug 6, 2007 07:50:47 PM
A web server handles HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) requests sent to it by web browsers. When you type in a URL —http://www.digital-web.com, for example—your computer sends out a request to look up the servers needed to handle requests and send responses back quickly. The technique for determining how to route requests to the cluster of web servers efficiently is called load balancing.
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Tags: Applications, Balancing, Client, Load, SidePush my button
Posted on Jul 18, 2007 06:13:59 PM
If there’s one element I think doesn’t get enough respect, it’s gotta be button. It’s played second fiddle to input in tutorials and form examples for as long as I can remember. The few times it actually did get some attention, the lowly button was used and abused by the DHTML crowd—forced to accept obtrusive inline event handlers and other such nefarious crimes against semantic markup.
In fact, Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: button, PushThe Evolution of Corporate Web Sites
Posted on Jul 13, 2007 12:18:19 AM
Hard to believe, but corporate Web sites have been around for over 10 years now. It’s fascinating to see how they have evolved over the years, from the early days of magazine-style brochureware to the most recent trends of two-way Web interfaces.
Corporate Web sites tend to re-invent themselves every 1-2 years and one reason is because Web design is constantly changing and adapting to technology in an evolutionary manner. Web Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Corporate, Evolution, SitesToronto Search Engine Strategies Conference
Posted on Jun 11, 2007 04:14:49 PM
Earlier this month, JupiterMedia’s two-day Search Engine Strategies Conference came to Toronto, giving me a “don’t miss” opportunity to learn the latest in search engine optimization without incurring travel expenses (always attractive to a freelancer). For me, it was a valuable conference and a great experience.
My Web development background began with writing HTML for Netscape 1, and I’ve used search Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: conference, Engine, Search, Strategies, Toronto