User experience design (UX, UXD, UED or XD) is the process of enhancing user satisfaction with a product by improving the usability, accessibility, and pleasure provided in the interaction with the product. User experience design encompasses traditional human–computer interaction (HCI) design, and extends it by addressing all aspects of…
January HTML/CSS Updates
What’s been happening with HTML and CSS? Just like having the ability to speak a foreign language, this sort of skill is helpful in almost all professions. HTML and CSS are the foundational languages of the web. As web professionals we…
Web Typography and Layout
Web professionals should be aware of this discussion concerning Web Typography & Layout: Past, Present, and Future. As a web professional, it is important to know what the future holds. Key takeaways include: how to avoid being overwhelmed by all…
Web Design Contest Reflections
Mark DuBois Director of Education I recently returned from the WorldSkills Web Design competition in São Paulo, Brazil and started thinking about web design contests in general. WebProfessionals.org has been involved with these events for the past 15+ years. I…
Thoughts on CSS
Thoughts on Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) By Mark DuBois Director of Education, WebProfessionals.org As a professor teaching web technologies, I am often presented with clear examples demonstrating that someone does not fully grasp a concept. In this case, the number…
Web Accessibility 101
By Mark DuBois Director of Education, WebProfessionals.org One, often overlooked, aspect of web design is to make your pages accessible. Besides being the right thing to do, this helps with page rank in search engines (since bots are blind). However,…
HTML 5 Forms
By Mark DuBois Director of Education Details, details, details It is April, 2015 as I write this post. HTML5 is supported by the majority of modern browsers. HTML5 contains a lot of semantic markup. For those who don’t know…
2015 Web Design Contest
Mark DuBois Director of Education As I look forward to another series of Web design contests as Director of Education for WebProfessionals.org, I thought it might be appropriate to reflect on why our organization is heavily involved with helping aspiring…
Web Professional Trends 2015 with Brent Norris
In this 3 minute interview with Brent Norris, Sr. Technical Advisor at Webprofessionals.org and owner at Brent.fm we talk about Web Professional Trends for 2015 including the value to both the aspiring and practicing Web professional. The series will cover…
Web Trends – 2015
Web Design Trends, Web Development and Web Business Trends for 2015 The Web Professional Trends series begins November 26, 2014 and continues through the first quarter of 2015. The first podcast in the series is with Brent Norris, director of…