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Jens Meiert (Google, W3C, O’Reilly) on professional web design, web development, accessibility, and usability. Researching and describing what makes the perfect website since 1999.

WDR #4: Having Conversations in HTTP

The Web Dev Report, issue #4.

¶ January 12, 2010, filed under ; 0 comments.

Moving Target

Please excuse some particular delay between posts right now. Over the next weeks I’ll be busy moving to the United States …

¶ January 5, 2010, filed under ; 6 comments.

My Year in Cities, 2009

Same procedure as at least last year.

¶ December 23, 2009, filed under ; 2 comments.

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 …

¶ November 27, 2009, filed under ; 3 comments.

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.

¶ November 18, 2009, filed under , ; 6 comments.

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.

¶ October 27, 2009, filed under ; 13 comments.

Product of the Environment

Philosophy, live from Zurich airport.

¶ October 23, 2009, filed under ; 0 comments.

HTML, CSS, and Web Development Practices: Past, Present, and Future

Articles with a title consisting of more than 15,000 characters don’t need an introduction.

¶ October 15, 2009, filed under , , , ; 3 comments.

Website Optimization Measures, Part VII

In this episode: Unquoted attribute value syntax, q elements, Google Friend Connect, feed styling, work/life balance. Served in no time.

¶ October 6, 2009, filed under , ; 5 comments.

Becoming Friends with the HTML 5 Super Friends

The HTML5 Super Friends are a few web designers and developers who like to support and contribute to HTML 5. Here’s my personal take on their initiative. Apply with a grain of salt.

¶ September 30, 2009, filed under ; 4 comments.

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Biography

Jens Meiert, photo of August 17, 2008.

Jens Meiert is specialized in usable, high quality web design and development.

He’s working for Google and is also involved in organizations like W3C (HTML Working Group), UPA, and IxDA.

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Last update: January 12, 2010. Copyright 2000-2010 Jens O. Meiert.

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