Why Your Business Needs a Mobile App? More and more small and midsize businesses are following the mobile trend, understanding that an effective mobile strategy involves more than just a mobile-friendly website. These days you’ll notice that many small businesses…
September Update – Virtual Reality and the Web
What is Virtual Reality? The computer-generated simulation of a three-dimensional image or environment that can be interacted with in a seemingly real or physical way by a person using special electronic equipment, such as a helmet with a screen inside…
Back to school – Security
Another week, another data breach As we develop web sites and APIs, we need to keep security in mind. I know this is obvious, but it is also something often overlooked. It is not glamorous. It is not something that…
Back to School – Universal Access
What is World Wide Access or Accessible Web Design?
The World Wide Web has rapidly become the dominant Internet tool, combining hypertext and multimedia to provide a network of educational, governmental, and commercial resources. Because of the multimedia nature of the web and the poor design of some websites, many Internet users cannot access the full range of resources. Some visitors cannot see graphics, cannot hear audio, cannot operate a mouse, uses slow Internet connections and modems or equipment that cannot easily download large files, or have difficulty navigating sites that are poorly organized with unclear directions because they have learning disabilities, speak English as a second language, or are younger than the average user.
What is Accessible Design?
Accessible design is a design process in which the needs of people with disabilities are specifically considered. Accessibility sometimes refers to the characteristic that products, services, and facilities can be independently used by people with a variety of disabilities.
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) develops and maintains the protocols used on the web to insure interoperability to promote universal access. The W3C’s Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) has proposed guidelines for all web authors.
Back to School – Information Architecture
What is Information Architecture? Information architecture is the practice of deciding how to arrange the parts of something to be understandable. It is in the websites we use, the apps and software we download, the printed materials we encounter, and…
Back to School – Semantic Markup Review
What is Semantic Markup mean? Semantics is the study of language meaning – the words used to communicate. Semantic markup should be used in web pages we create and modify. In our technology world we use semantic language. Semantic HTML is…
August Update – ‘Skills new hires should have’
What work skills can make you more marketable to employers in 2018? Change is always constant. So naturally, the job skills that employers look for in new hires change from year to year. It’s one of the best ways for…
Why web design contests matter
In a couple of weeks, we will be holding our 15th national web design competition in Louisville, KY. This involves competitors from many states at both the high school and post-secondary level. We spend a significant amount of time and…
GDPR and Web Professionals
We suspect you have received more than your share of GDPR related notifications in the past couple of weeks. Rather than send out another email on the subject, we thought it might be worthwhile addressing the issue in our weekly…
How Cyber Security is changing the web design industry
Today’s article is from our member Julia Eudy. Julia – Many thanks for writing this article and providing your insights. When I think of the industry of web design, I think of the many talented people responsible for populating the…