One of the key strategies for a results-oriented website is launching an MVP (minimum viable product). But what does that mean? Defining an MVP can be tricky, and even moreso when there is an existing website. I believe there are two key measures of an MVP redesign; achieving 1) results parity and 2) UX parity. In other words, the new site can't cause a loss of revenue or vital revenue inputs such as leads. It also can't deliver a drop in overall customer experience. The visual impact must be...
The world rejoices as an extension, IE Tab , has been released that allows users to view content in either the Gecko or Internet Explorer engine. This functionality has been a part of Netscape 8 for...
Today Apple announced "Boot Camp" - a new, free to download software that will make it easy to install Windows XP on their newest machines with Intel chips. With Boot Camp, Apple hopes to further...
That's right folks! Wednesday April 5, 2006 is the first annual CSS Naked Day . This idea was cooked up to promote some awareness of the importance of valid semantic markup. The idea behind this...
Most of us have run into this problem before. You want to have rich typography in your design, but you also want to have it work predictably in a good chunk of browsers. I've gathered a few...
The importance of accessibility Web development can be a rapid process with all sorts of distractions and obstacles. It's easy to hack a page together, step back and say to yourself "OK this looks...
Whether you realize it or not, semantic markup and search engine optimization ( SEO ) go hand in hand. The purpose of clean, meaningful markup is organize you data so that it is identified more...
The and tags are extremely useful tags that seem to be completely ignored by the majority of the web development populous. I want to tell you why they are useful (and...
Since its inception, the web has always been a communication tool, although for a long time many individuals and companies have only seen it as a marketing venue, much like a big, animated billboard...
As a web usability expert I am always researching ways to better understand user behavior on the Internet. How can the design and placement of information on a page influence a user's decision to...