All in all, a mixed Christmas here. Both Megan and I have had bad colds, mine culminating in a temperature of over 100 degrees last night. It broke (I hope) about 4am but still, it didn’t make for an ideal Xmas. Naomi has also been unwell suffering from a 3 day headache and sickness brought [...]

As I talked about recently I’ll be starting a new project next year to provide help to new designers and those designers struggling with making the transition to standards based design. I’ve outlined a syllabus on what I’d like to cover.

Introduction

To the Web as a Design Medium
To Web Browsers
To Users
To Clients

Things Designers Design

Information

Content
Navigation
Usability of Information
Accessibility [...]

A recent air (no doubt partially influenced by the year end) in the standards community sees a number of influential members of the international design community identifying something amiss in the community. Well, not amiss exactly, but maybe absent.

Molly E. Holzschlag has reported back from Web Design World 2004 on how well the conference went [...]

Web accessibility: one of the big topics in web design circles this year. If you’ve been living on Mars with Elvis for the last 18 months or so then web accessibility is the process of ensuring a website is accessible to users with a disability. In the UK, it is the law that business websites [...]