Tag: usability
The end of the FAQ
We’ve all seen websites that list frequently asked questions, or FAQ. Continuing in our series All Things Must End, we’re going to show that FAQ are training wheels from when the web was new and have no place on modern websites that are properly designed. Image via Wikipedia While there isn’t really anything inherently evil…
Reading plain text email is safer and faster and preserves privacy
Image via Wikipedia We try to cover basic security best-practices as much as possible. We talked about the value of NoScript, a Firefox plugin that prevents JavaScript from loading on web pages unless specifically allowed by the user. Today, we’re going to examine why reading email as HTML is a bad practice from a privacy,…
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…
Flash is bad, m’kay
Flash shouldn’t be used on modern websites for anything but video.