“User Experience” Archive
Intermission: Speed
“The size of the average web page has more than tripled since 2003. From 2003 to 2008 the average web page grew from 93.7 KB to over 312 KB, some 233 %. During the same five-year period, the number of objects in the average web page …”
The Most Annoying Yet Almost Most Important Task in Professional Website Management
… is link checking. There are tools out there, en masse, however, it is just annoying to run after so-called professionals who neither know about simplest online rules nor how to set up redirects (but dare to waste other people’s time) …
Code Responsibly
Exactly: Code responsibly. And contribute if you like to.
The Most Important Thing Is to Get the HTML Right
… meaning really right when it comes to modern, high quality web development. Why? Because it’s the markup that provides meaning and is important for accessibility, that is key to maintainability since otherwise bottleneck, that can have a significant impact on performance …
Google Chrome
I love it: 99.9 % of the readers of this site already know about Google Chrome, the browser my employer just released. Still, I am not talking as an employee here, and still, there might be something in this post that you didn’t know …
A Few Words on HTML/CSS Frameworks
Public, or open, HTML/CSS “frameworks” are never the best solution, and oftentimes not even a good solution for any site. Let’s conclude this right now but take another look at supposed frameworks …
10 Measures for Continuous Website Maintenance
Website maintenance and quality assurance mean the backbone of high quality offers of information, and they represent the difference between an amateurish or professional approach to web design and development. Consequently, guidelines for quality web design define maintenance …
When Validation Becomes Unimportant
Validation becomes unimportant once you’re ahead of the game, and not a second earlier. Even then, truly mastering HTML and CSS, it will usually be best to stick with valid markup and styling, but fighting latency might then mean a by all means legitimate reason to stretch a little bit …
Thoughts on Email
Email was, is, and will stay the web’s true killer application, but spam, top-posting, incompetent use of newsletters, and the HTML email problem mean serious challenges. I can’t but get rid of …
Web Design: 10 Additional Research Findings You Should Know
Following up on last year’s post on web design research, here’s a new collection of research results, this time featuring further reading as well. It happens that I still watch the work of Association for Computing Machinery, Human Factors International, and the like …
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