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.

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 Web Development, Accessibility, Usability, User Experience.

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 Web Development, User Experience.

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 …”

¶ June 10, 2009, filed under Web Development, User Experience.

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) …

¶ October 16, 2008, filed under Web Development, User Experience.

Code Responsibly

Exactly: Code responsibly. And contribute if you like to.

¶ October 9, 2008, filed under Web Development, Accessibility, User Experience.

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 …

¶ September 26, 2008, filed under Web Development, Accessibility, User Experience.

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 …

¶ September 4, 2008, filed under Web Development, Accessibility, Usability, User Experience.

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 …

¶ August 5, 2008, filed under Web Development, User Experience.

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 …

¶ June 24, 2008, filed under Web Development, Usability, Design, User Experience.