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…
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…
May Update – Virtual and Augmented Reality
The Web continues to evolve. Recent projections indicate that virtual reality and augmented reality may soon become a major part of web interfaces. We thought it might be helpful to provide a quick overview of these technologies and provide additional…
May Update – Web Development trends for 2018
Web Development Trends In web development, the saying “the only constant is change” is very true. Web development is changing every second and 2018 is no exception. User expectations are growing and it is more important than ever to build…
May Update – Web Design trends for 2018
What are Design Trends? Web design may be maturing, but it’s still subject to fads, fashions and whims. Some web designers are obsessed with the latest website design trends. Passion is one of the driving factor for our designing process,…