“Design” Archive
Website Optimization Measures, Part IV
Once again, though already covering a few weeks of various improvements. Some have been taken place in Bremen, others in Zurich, all on one or more of my sites. Anyway, enjoy some additional tips, this time roughly touching typography, usability, SEO, and web development with performance focus …
Standardistas, Help Fix Wikipedia
When it comes to professional web design and web development, not only the English Wikipedia is in questionable condition. And considering the value Wikipedia has as a contact point for rubbernecks and novices, it should be in our best interest to take care of …
The 10 Design Theses of Dieter Rams
Moving up industrial design on my agenda and studying the work of German top designer Dieter Rams, who was responsible for the mostly great design of Braun products for about 30 years, I considered it to be useful to bring up his design theses again …
Website Optimization Measures, Part III
Jens on quality assurance again, this week featuring the link richness challenge, updated ping service lists, improved WordPress plugins and security, revised layout grids, font karaoke, and more prominent update information. Hot and spicy as always.
Win a Signed Copy of “Webdesign mit CSS”
I am giving away a free yet signed copy of my German book Webdesign mit CSS – and you know what’s in the 2nd edition :) Winning is easy even though I want to get to know you a little bit better: Just write down your favorite football club and your postal address, then email jens(at)meiert.com …
“helvetica, arial”, Not “arial, helvetica”
Unless Arial really is your standard font, please use the order helvetica, arial in your CSS font declarations, not the popular arial, helvetica. Why? Because Arial basically still means kind of a copy of Helvetica, and Helvetica is ubiquitous or popular enough so that one can actually reference it …
Website Optimization Measures, Part II
Now that we talked about blog clean-ups, structure and element revisions as well as search engine verification in part I, here are some additional suggestions, small measures for improvement consisting of .htaccess stuff, SEO, and consistency checks …
2007 Retrospective, 2008 Outlook
Now that 2007 is gone it’s time for a quick personal recap and 2008 prognosis: The last year has been an interesting one that included professional change along with a relocation from Berlin to Bremen, gave birth to the Second Edition of my German CSS book, meant membership …
Thoughts Dump
Thinking and quacking about WCAG 2.0 development and its new status, Opera challenging Microsoft in order to support and ensure proper web standards implementation, and some lucky restaurant staff being blessed and helped with good design …
Qualities of Design: It Works and It’s Durable
Trying to extend that simple definition of design – design reveals – I came to only one additional attribute beside functionality yet, namely durability or stability, respectively. This takes into account that a design – be it physical or “intangible” – that works may nonetheless be bad …
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