Today?s Internet is a lot different than it used to be. With new developments such as SEO (Search Engine Optimization) and web standards, building websites the same old way just won?t cut it anymore. The W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) creates guidelines and regulations that designers strive to follow to make their sites as accessible and functional as possible. Compliance with W3C standards ensures that your site achieves its full potential across a range of systems.
The DRC Blew It
The DRC has been campaigning for accessible websites for years. They just had their biggest chance to force some change… And they blew it
8 Guidelines For Usability Testing
Eight essential guidelines for usability testing, helping you to plan, run and analyse usability tests.
Welcome To The World Of CSS Web Design
Although CSS was first introduced in the mid 1990s, it did not become a mainstream tool among web designers and masters until more recent years. This is unfortunate, because there are millions of poorly designed web sites cluttering the internet that could be easily improved with the help of CSS.
High Performance Web Applications – Part 1
Today most developers look at the performance considerations after launching the application in Production which is primary reason failures of lot of applications. Performance requirements should be considered from the initial design all the way to production launch. This series is going to describe how high performance can be achieved on the client side (Browsers), Server Side (App Server) and on the DB.
Using the Web Accessibility Toolbar
The Web Accessibility Toolbar will help you test any website for basic accessibility in just a few minutes – find out where you can get it from and how to use it.
XHTML – Kicking And Screaming Into The Future
XHTML, the standard, was first released back in 2000. Roughly five years later we begin to see major websites revised to use this standard. Even the favorite whipping boy of standards-compliance punditry, Microsoft, presents their primary homepages, msn.com and microsoft.com in XHTML. Standards compliant XHTML sites are still the minority. The reason is simple. When the W3C released the new standard, the rest of the web running on HTML did not cease to function. Nor will the …
Creating Brands That Provide Psychological And Social Benefits Beyond The Product
The main reason for the general fascination with brands is their ability to provide the consumers an extra value in addition to what the productservicecompany themselves can provide. A value which becomes the major motivation for consumers to desire the product.
The Secret Benefit Of Accessibility Part 1: Increased Usability
Popular article outlining how a website optimised for accessibility also improves its usability