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Jens O. Meiert (Google, W3C, O’Reilly) on professional web design, web development, accessibility, and usability. Researching and describing what makes the perfect website since 1999.
How to Relocate, the Alternative Guide
If there’s one area of expertise I’m only involuntarily linked with, it’s moving. I moved 25 times so far, spanning cities, countries, and now continents; my career stats mean .81 relocations per year, or 1.24 years per relocation …
px Is Dead, Long Live px
It’s over. There is no ban on px anymore. The only reason why we as web developers had to adjust coding practices were user agents that failed to meet user agent accessibility guidelines …
How to Become a Solid Web Developer, the Short Version
Every once in a while people ping me on how to master web development and design. Given that there’s still so much I have to learn this makes me blush. Chronically short on time I typically reply …
WDR #4: Having Conversations in HTTP
The Web Dev Report, issue #4.
Moving Target
Please excuse some particular delay between posts right now. Over the next weeks I’ll be busy moving to the United States …
My Year in Cities, 2009
Same procedure as at least last year.
SUS: How to Easily Grade Your Site’s Usability
The System Usability Scale (SUS) is a Likert scale-based questionnaire to grade the usability of systems. SUS questionnaire results are used to calculate a score between 0 and 100, with 100 indicating “best” usability. Since websites can be considered “systems,” SUS can also be used to grade websites …
HTML/CSS Frameworks: Useful, Universal, Usable, Unobtrusive
A high quality HTML/CSS framework needs to have four attributes: useful, universal, usable, and unobtrusive. The four U’s.
The 3 Basic Rules for Writing HTML
The fundamentals every web developer should know: Respecting syntax and semantics, avoiding presentational and behavioral markup, and leaving out everything that is not absolutely necessary.
Product of the Environment
Philosophy, live from Zurich airport.
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