Companies Need Creative Hiring Solutions To Attract Talent
I just took a web design survey. It took me less than four minutes, if that, thanks to the multiple choice options and easy questions. What slowed me down was the chance to speak up about women, driving long distances to work and single parenting. There is no shortage of web design/development talent. There is, however, a shortage of companies who want to hire talent, understand the value of well-rounded skills and are flexible enough to accommodate their needs. There are three companies I...
Read MoreWebsite Design How-to Steps and Information Foraging
I’m fortunate that when I become busy and can’t write something worthy in my blog, I have good friends to introduce you to. This time, I have something to offer that’s helpful to those who want advice on starting a new website and something else for those who are light-years ahead of the game. Yuri Filimonov has written Create a small business website on a small budget I like checklists and articles that organize projects. That’s what Yuri does in his article. He...
Read MoreStill Banging Your Head About Browser Resolutions?
If so, you’re not alone. Three of the current top discussions at Cre8asiteforums are on the topic of web page resolution. It’s hard to ignore a vibe that strong. Browser resolution remains a web designer’s dilemma. How do you know what the right choice to make is? Explore: 1152×864 On 17″ Monitor Going Too Far? “I know w3schools.com says a lot of people are on this resolution but it does not specify the correlation to monitor size.” 800×600...
Read MoreWhy I Celebrate Website Mistakes
I met a lovely reader today, who responded to seeing my blog post yesterday on accessbility. I wrote about the topic not as expert, but as a student. It’s a role I’m more comfortable with. He showed me a project he’s passionate about. It’s a website built for visually impaired and the blind, either using a web browser reader or a braille setup. I could learn from it I wanted to. But mostly, it mattered more to me that he could sense I’d like to see it. Such a...
Read MoreIt’s Web Design and SEO Question Day
For fun and because some of the questions and informative posts coming into Cre8asiteforums lately are interesting, I decided to share some of them. (Special note to the latest viagra spammer. Thanks for the laughs and being so obviously useless.) Okay, here we go. If you handcode CSS, why bother with Dreamweaver (or any WYSIWYG) app? Price perceptions – shocks in store? Ammon writes, …a new study highlighted by Wharton, has shown that most people automatically assume that they are...
Read MoreWebsite Design, SEO and Usability Laws or Beat Your Own Drum?
You read and hear it all the time. Somebody tells you to do something a certain way because it’s the only correct way. So, you do it, only to learn later that your original way was fine or an even better approach. You may grow tired of being lectured to. You may not know whom to trust. I thought Aaron Wall’s SEO Book blog post called Bad Advice That Sounds Good was thought provoking. Last I checked, it had garnered 40 comments. He struck a nerve. He wrote things like, “People...
Read MoreSlow Motion Posting This Week
Kids are home from school all week, and I’m hosting a Thanksgiving gathering this year, so posting will be light. I’ve got the 20 pound turkey, and a chore-list that’s a mile long. Here’s a bit of news to share, however, just to prove that bloggers can keep this up under the most extreme of circumstances. Like the parents and in-laws coming to a holiday dinner… Accessibility Legislation by country is a must-have for global web design. (Hat tip Rosie Sherry) A new...
Read MoreWebsite Usability Checklists Are Not Helping Those Who Need Them The Most
The first website I ever made was hosted by AOL, had a terribly long URL that made no sense and was not for anyone’s eyes but mine. I was a hunter-gatherer of all things search engine or web design related and constantly on information overload. The first website, called “Dancing Thunder’s Playground” was titled after my nickname, which was “Dancing Thunder” or “DT”. It was where I stockpiled links and chunks of educational information. ...
Read MoreHug Me, Kiss Me, Buy Me Emotional Usability Design
Judging from the articles I’m seeing on usability lately, I think it’s safe to say most people finally understand it has a lot more to do than just what color your active links are. Designers are understanding how people use things and how they find them. Everyday products are designed with usage in mind, and how cool it is to use them. Some products make you feel good because they grab you somehow, and everytime you use them, you have some kind of an emotional reaction whenever...
Read MoreDesign Questions Every Website Should Address for Success
I was reading the extraordinary piece called 18 Questions Your CEO Forgot to Ask When Building Your Website compiled and written by Todd Malicoat. He asks, “Why are you always retrofitting and re-optimizing?” The question that I’m asked the most is, “Why isn’t my site working the way I want it to?” The most common scenerio I work with are those people and companies who have a finished site and are in the “retrofitting and re-optimizing” stage. ...
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