Jens Meiert

Print CSS, Showing URLs, Caution

Print style sheets are awesome and easy to write. Site owners and developers caring about print typically have a feel for what to do. Alas there’s one thing that’s getting done rather the wrong than in any right way …

¶ June 14, 2011, filed under Web Development, Design, User Experience.

On Correct Punctuation

Let’s speak the unspeakable: correct punctuation, here referring to the use of the correct characters for quotation marks, apostrophes, dashes, and ellipses, will forever remain a dream online …

¶ April 7, 2011, filed under Design.

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 Web Development, Design.

Punctuation Cheat Sheet

Working with and localizing international sites means an interesting challenge, not just for right-to-left contents. Typographically, there are differences between many locales. To get punctuation right I’m using a simple aid that I like to finally share …

¶ June 3, 2009, filed under Design.

The Result of Maturity Is Simplicity

“Finally, it doesn’t lack some irony considering that web design gets often enough protected by the credo ‘the end justifies the means’ and pragmatism’s paid homage to. The question is whether you’re talking about sick, sanctimonious pragmatism or …”

¶ May 26, 2009, filed under Web Development, Design.

How Much Intelligence Does Good Design Really Require?

Of the definitions for art, design, and decoration I published back in the days, I do believe in the statement that design works – or has to work, respectively – the most. However, one thing’s still challenging me, and that is how much intelligence good, working design requires …

¶ April 28, 2009, filed under Usability, Design.

Website Optimization Measures, Part VI

In this episode: On the utilization of Google Friend Connect, maintenance of Google Analytics, sanity checks, type attributes, charset rules, cite elements, and ICRA labels. Fresh and sexy.

¶ March 10, 2009, filed under Web Development, Usability, Design.

Arial, Helvetica

Kind of quoting myself from some place else, extending my former post on Arial and Helvetica: For those who want or even have to use Arial as their standard font, there is no real point in mentioning Helvetica anywhere in the code …

¶ February 12, 2009, filed under Web Development, Design.

Browser Support: The Two Metrics that Count

There are only two things that matter to determine what user agents – or browsers, simple lingo – to support on any given site: How popular is the user agent in question (key figure)? And what’s the “support threshold”, the distribution percentage that makes a user agent …

¶ January 27, 2009, filed under Web Development, Design.

The Greatest Secret in Web Design

Alright I cheated, this isn’t really a secret for professionals. Or an open secret. Or whatever. It’s that web design is a process. Good web design is an ongoing endeavour; and thus, excellent web design an expensive undertaking …

¶ December 1, 2008, filed under Web Development, Accessibility, Usability, Design.