I don’t know about you, but I’m tired of clients treating web developers like brainless code monkeys. After so many years as a part of a legitimate and growing industry, why are web developers not yet treated like experts? Why do clients demand the final say on the presentation and mechanics of a website? Web developers are the experts. We [...]

You heard me – it sucks! I’m especially looking at you, Flash developers. To be fair, yours isn’t the only one that sucks – all splash pages (enter gross generalization here) suck. The internet is about content, and splash pages, especially those containing the ubiquitous and oh-so-irrelevant ‘Flash introduction’. The more clicking a user has to do to get to [...]

If I had to choose my top pet peeve relating to the world of website design, it would definitely be that one, annoying, lazy, useless phrase to indicate a link: click here! Click where? Why here? Why not there? Where else am I going to click? What am I clicking on? Where am I going? Those are just a few [...]

The grumblings of my fellow web designers and developers about having to support Internet Explorer 6 is not a new topic; some, including myself, would say that it’s been discussed to death. It’s not going away anytime soon, so we should just shut up and deal with it. Right? Well, now that Internet Explorer 8 is officially out of beta, [...]