Yesterday was the RefreshDelVal Meetup, which is always a great geeky social event, where I get to interface with some incredibly intelligent and talented folks.
The great thing about this group is I always learn something. Jim brought up some great resources, the best of them being OdioGo.com, which is a free way to “give your [...]

I admit to always having a bias against IFrames since they allow others to steal my content. But now there’s a good argument against using them even for legitimate purposes. Apparently, since they’re majorly used for ad serving, many of the adblockers are blocking ALL IFrame contents. McAfee with “Privacy Service” enabled on IE6 and [...]

While trying to come up with a good alternative for styling the forms for a client’s directory site, I was poking around for inspiration and found this excellent article about Label Placement in Forms, which uses eyetracking studies to determine which form element and label arrangement is the most advantageous and least strain on the [...]

As I get deeper into my own learning curve and think about the various ways I can improve my skills, improve my own sites, and improve sites for my clients, I’ve been thinking a lot about not just getting in new visitors, but also maximizing the value of my site to every visitor who shows [...]

My friend, Jim Wurster, sent me a link to a blog entry on ZDNet entitled “Usability on the web is a sham” which states an opinion about usability and accessibility that really doesn’t seem to be based in any sort of current web reality. The author, Ryan Stewart, surely must be a person with perfect [...]