I bought my wife a Kindle Fire for Christmas. I’m impressed and she loves it (and the price isn’t bad either). I’ve read a lot of hype that says that Amazon is pushing the device to make more sales, but I really believe that is a pure content device. It’s [...]

If I was going to write book of web principles certainly one of my top ten principles would be Users Hate Change If you’ve been on Facebook the day a change is made you’ve certainly seen it in your news feed.  Today, for example, Facebook changed up the contents of [...]

I spend a lot of time testing web sites and making sure they look right on different platforms, different browsers and just like it’s always been some browsers really make me pull my hair out. Right now, it’s IE 7. Anytime I open up a web site in IE 7 [...]

This afternoon Rex Nelson was announced as the new President of Arkansas’ Independent Colleges and Universities. Ten years ago when I was employed by one of Arkansas’ Independent Colleges and Universities I designed that organizations web site as part of my job. Curious as to what their site looked like, [...]

The latest browser usage reports have google’s Chrome browser being used by nearly one out of every 10 users online with Firefox gathering around a 23 percent market share and IE at 57 percent. When I first saw this report I wondered about regional variations in browser usage, but on [...]

I took the survey for people who make websites again. I think I’ve taken it every time they’ve given it. You should take it, too.

You’ve probably heard of mission creep and home page creep when you slowly ad links and bloat your home page overtime, but it’s also important to remember to be goal focused when you’re redesigning your home page. In a large organization I think  your home page design is often like [...]

Chuck, the SEO rapper, released his Social Media Rap in February, but somehow I missed it. If you haven’t seent it you need to check it out. Personally, I like his  Design & Coding rap better, but I like them all.

It’s so funny to me that I deal with the exact same issues at different organizations whenever I am new– this week it’s new windows! Opening up a new window is so important to people (who don’t understand the web) because they don’t want their users to leave their site– [...]