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Archive for the 'Accessibility and Usability' Category

The Three Most Common Web Design Mistakes

Wednesday, June 4th, 2008

There are three common web design mistakes I see over and over and over. And they are made on sites big and small, by top designers and by amateurs.
The most common web design mistakes stem from the web designer’s inability to see the web as a medium that is much more in the control of [...]

Dropdown Menus in WordPress, an SEO and Accessibility No-No

Tuesday, February 26th, 2008

Twice recently I went onto client’s sites to find they opted in WordPress Admin to use a category dropdown menu instead of the regular widget menu. It amazes me every time I see this. Why? Because not only is it an ugly interface in an otherwise Kickass design, but it’s also a really really REALLY [...]

Accessibility Toolbar for FireFox

Thursday, January 17th, 2008

The Illinois Center for Information Technology Accessibility has released the latest version of the FireFox Accessibility Extension Add-On. I just installed it and did a couple site evaluations. It just confirmed the fact that this site is way overdue for an overhaul, which is currently in process. My newer sites came up much better in [...]

Old table and print think vs. css layout think

Saturday, October 27th, 2007

Right now I’m working on coding a site into WordPress that was designed by a graphics designer who is, from what I can see, a print designer. It was done for another gal who was originally going to do the coding slice and dice for Macromedia Contribute, using a table layout, but for various reasons [...]

Wide Screens and Usability

Tuesday, July 24th, 2007

More and more people are going to wide screens these days. In general, though your particular stats may vary, less than 9% of web users overall are surfing at an 800 x 600 resolution. Approximately half are using 1024 x 768, with the rest using resolutions between 1280 wide and 1680 wide.
With css we CAN [...]

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