In my daily routine I am increasingly asked to do things that are more complex in nature, are more creatively-challenging, and (often times) more rewarding. The Web offers the greatest possibility of reaching the most customers, but there is a price to be paid if the client wants things done appropriately. (more…)

I must confess that I have only recently made the upgrade to IE7 on my development PC. The main reason was simple laziness (I am a programmer), but it was also due to an underlying apprehension with most Microsoft technologies in general. Basically I wanted to make sure that if I installed IE7 I would still be able to run multiple versions of IE for testing purposes and not botch-up my testing environment. (more…)

I have finished writing an article named “Semantics and Accessibility Primer: Best practices to help you create accessible and semantically-rich Web pages” in which I discuss various techniques and methods to help those struggling with the concepts of semantically-rich, accessible web pages. The WCAG priorities can be easily misunderstood, even by experts and those intimately familiar with them. The article aims to help those new to these concepts become better-acquainted with the basics and to help them simply get some work done.

I would have loved to have posted the article here, but WordPress really choked on all the additional markup in the article. So I decided to simply post the article in a different section of the site and allow for comments and suggestions here. Enjoy!

Editor— Yeah, I know I used the non-word “ain’t” in the title, but if I had used “isn’t” in its place then it would still read WYSIWYG and this is different. Different, indeed.

Way back in the days before the Web Standards were a hit, a great deal of so-called “professional” Web designers utilized tools called “what you see is what you get” (WYSIWYG) editors. These tools allowed the designer to create Web page layouts by simply dragging, dropping, and editing items on the page à la Microsoft Word® or another word processor. (more…)