Web Stack Series Part 6: Cascading Style Sheets

August 13, 2007 | Filed Under Design, Web Site Development

Part 6 of our journey through the Web Stack brings us into the design realm. In the world of web design, HTML is the cake and Cascading Style Sheets, or CSS, is the decorative icing on top. CSS is responsible for making your web site look delicious.
Cascading Style Sheets didn’t get a lot of attention until […]

Basics of Web Usability

July 24, 2007 | Filed Under Accessibility, Web Site Development, General

In my previous article Why Web Accessibility Matters I touched on why having and designing an accessible web site made good business sense. In this article, I would like to continue into the area of web usability.
What is web usability?
Web usability has multiple meanings depending to whom you are talking. Some people think it is […]

Why Web Accessibility Matters

July 22, 2007 | Filed Under Accessibility, Web Site Development, General

I would like to take a moment to thank Aaron for asking me to write for Solo Signal about Web accessibility and usability topics. In this article I would like to focus on accessible web design as it relates to good business practices. My next article will focus on the usability aspects of […]

Web Stack Series Part 5: HTML and Markup

July 17, 2007 | Filed Under Web Site Development, Technology

How do web developers create the layouts of web pages? How do they tell the browser to arrange images around the copy in just the right fashion? How do web browsers know that one paragraph of text should be italic, while the other should be bold? The secret sauce behind all this magic is a […]

How Much Should Web Site Design, Development, and Hosting Cost?

July 15, 2007 | Filed Under Design, Web Site Development

What’s the easiest way to create awkwardness, spite, and frustration between clients and web site developers? Bring up the price of the project and you will instantly create a volatile situation. In most interactions between clients and web site designers/developers, expectations of project costs are drastically different. So how much should a web site really […]

Web Stack Series Part 4: Business Logic Programming

July 10, 2007 | Filed Under Web Site Development

Today we continue our look at the web stack by explaining Business Logic Programming.
Web sites are highly complex organisms. There are hundreds of processes and actions that take place behind the scenes every time you access a single web page. Harmoniously coordinating these actions and the components responsible for making a basic web site perform flawlessly […]

72 Essential Acronyms Related to Web Site Development

July 9, 2007 | Filed Under Web Site Development, Education, Reference, General

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Acronyms are a tradition in the tech world. To the untrained eye, they can be confusing and intimidating. To help clear some of the letter-fog, we’ve listed 72 common web site development acronyms with their definitions. Bookmark this page if you are getting ready to start a web site project - you are sure to […]