A great showcase of the best in informational rich media. What’s nice about the sites they present is that they actually use rich media to convey information or tell a story, rather than just to be flashy as is so often the case. Read More
A recent article in PCWorld magazine caught my attention by pronouncing that Microsoft recommended ‘crippling IE to protect your PC’ by turning off scripting functionality such as Javascript. Read More
Keith’s recent post on the use of title attributes and the subsequent discussion that followed was helpful in clearing up how they, and alt attributes, should be appropriately used. Read More
Despite my difficulties in navigating the W3C QA site (see previous post) it was interesting to read their article about good writing conventions for links. Read More
I recently learned that the W3C has a quality assurance web site. The reason I learned this was because I followed a link to a W3C article about writing links.
A few things that have caught my eye lately:
This flash-based online face creation and manipulation tool is amazing. Some of the UI is a little cryptic, but it’s not too difficult to work out what all the controls do. Read More
Lots has been written about the importance of writing your body copy, email newsletters, blogs, etc with personality so as to show that there are real people behind the corporate facade.
It’s easy to forget that images containing text should be proof read as rigorously as regular body copy. This Target ad shows what happens when this is not done: Read More