Digital Photography School has a great post on 13 Lessons to Teach Your Child About Digital Photography that apply to anyone interested in learning more about photography. My favorite lessons include… Hold a camera straight Get in close Balance between photographing things, people and places Rule of thirds Focal lock [...]

The other day I logged into my mortgage company’s site to check what we owed on our house that we are selling. I probably haven’t logged into that site in a year or two. The next day I had phone call from my mortgage company checking to see if everything [...]

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Innovator’s and entrepreneurs need to follow Google’s advice… “At Google, we really focus on failing wisely,” said Matt Glotzbach, Google Enterprise’s product management director, at the Interop New York conference. “There is no penalty for failure. In fact we encourage it because if you’re not failing it means you’re probably [...]

One of the keys to good web design is designing for accessibility. That is making your site easy to use for those with different kinds of limitations: an old computer/web browser, vision problems or even color issues. The designer putting himself in the place of the person with the accessibility [...]

Since the beginning of the web, web designers have continually worried about the fold and fought the fold. The fold is the mythical line that denotes what the user sees when they first visit a web site and what the user does not see (below the fold). (I believe the [...]

Over the years, I’ve written my own customized CMS running off a MS SQL or Access DB and vbscript and played around with a quite a few open source CMSes that were mostly one-offs of blogging platforms. I would always revert to writing my own customized versions because the open [...]

The Fayetteville, Arkansas City Councilnow has a blogspot blog where they are posting the agenda’s for the upcoming city council meetings. I think they are looking for citizens to comment on the different parts of the agenda, but there are no comments so far. We’ll have to check back and [...]

Since I wielded the shovel quiet a few years ago, I haven’t understood why a newspaper hasn’t stood up and said online news is a different business from print newspaper and shouldn’t require us shoveling the entire print contents on to the web site early every morning. Well, Howard Owen [...]

NYTimes.com general manager, Vivian Schiller, reports that their slide show section has taken off accounting for 10 percent of their overall August traffic. Note to self: Add video AND slide shows to the site. Which one do you think will be easier to produce?