Category: design
Accessible websites, more RFP ideas
The example RFP for website construction posted last week mentioned a little about web standards and user agents, but after further reflection it seems we need to examine further the importance of an accessible and usable website and add a few more requirements to the proposal. An accessible website is one that can be viewed…
PDF should be optional on web
Portable Document Format (PDF) is a file format created by Adobe in 1993. As of July 1, 2008, it’s an ISO standard, which means that the format is open and published so that anyone can create it or use it. There are many misconceptions about the proper use of PDFs, and today I’m going to…
Apple releases new iPods, iTunes 8
Apple today released new versions of their iTunes software as well as updated versions of iPods. This release was hardly surprising and, as predicted, there wasn’t anything unexpected or widely diverging from the rumors that had been floating around the Internet. The take-aways are really fewer than I had expected. iTunes 8 is out and…
Google recommends Chrome download from main page
Google today, seemingly confident enough about their new browser, posted a link on their homepage for the download. While a significant percentage of the news I read over the course of the last week involved Chrome and the browser wars, I’m guessing that the news escaped the average Fox News viewer. Now everyone knows. Everyone…
Flash is bad, m’kay
Flash shouldn’t be used on modern websites for anything but video.