Lies, damned lies and Adobe’s penetration statistics for Flash
Another quarter, another set of statistics from Adobe claiming “worldwide ubiquity” for the Flash plug-in. As with many vendor-commissioned surveys, the results of the Flash penetration survey are based on a truth that is spun out to an absurd degree.
Posted on Wednesday, October 7th, 2009
Web page size and browser performance – why it still matters
Web page optimisation has become a ‘lost art’, despite the relationship between link between page performance and conversion rates.
Posted on Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009
Josef Müller Brockmann – grid-based layout and web design
In recent years there has been a trend towards visual overload in web design. In trying to buck this trend it’s worth looking at the example of Josef Müller Brockmann.
Posted on Sunday, July 20th, 2008
Digital artist: Han Hoogerbrugge
Hoogerbrugge is a Dutch digital artist who started out as a painter and cartoonist until discovering the internet in the mid-1990s.
Posted on Wednesday, March 12th, 2008
Building good quality SEO hyperlinks
Hyperlinks are the basic currency of search engine rankings, so it’s important that you code them so search engines can follow them and weight them properly.
Posted on Tuesday, March 4th, 2008
Yugo Nakamura – MONO*crafts
A specialist in interface design, Tokyo-based Yugo Nakamura has been stretching the possibilities of interaction over the web since the late 1990s.
Posted on Thursday, February 21st, 2008
Using the DIV tag to display columns rather than tables
A common mistake that people make when developing web sites for accessibility is to use the <TABLE> element to control their layouts. The <TABLE> element is convenient, easy to work with and produces layouts that are stable across different browsers. However, the W3C WAI guidelines are pretty clear on this: tables are for displaying tabular [...]
Posted on Tuesday, February 12th, 2008
DQ Books
DQ Books is an online publishing project that has produced a series of collaborations between illustrators and photographers.
Posted on Saturday, January 12th, 2008