Archive for December, 2009

The Importance of W3C Compliance for Cross-Browser Compatibility

Is compliance to the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) standards really that important? How is it so for Cross-Browser Compatibility? The browser is the most popular means to access the Web. Many users have numerous options as to what web browser to use. For this matter, cross-browser compatibility is one of the significant reasons for [...]

The Easy-Button

We have books and articles about website usability, the good offices of the W3C to show us guidelines and offer us tools for ensuring functional code, and a handy professional designer to put the ideas into action. But why do we need those, anyway? Why can not we just let the writers compose some prose, [...]

Why People Love Websites

Why do people love your website? They love it because they can find it, because they can use it, because it has the content that they want, and because it works. They may also love the color scheme, the layout, and the graphics. But if they can’t find it or use it, and if the [...]