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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 …

¶ March 2, 2010, filed under ; 1 comment.

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 …

¶ February 23, 2010, filed under , ; 17 comments.

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 …

¶ February 12, 2010, filed under , ; 5 comments.

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 ; 7 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.

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Biography

Jens O. Meiert, photo of August 17, 2008.

Jens O. 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: March 2, 2010. Copyright 2000-2010 Jens O. Meiert.

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