After nearly ten years creating web sites and web applications I have learned some lessons. Below are some points I chatted about with friends wondering about going into web development or web design and who asked me for some advice…
1) Be organized
Like any project, you need to be prepared before starting coding or designing anything. For [...]

Comme convenu lors de notre dernière rencontre, la date pour la prochaine AUGG à été fixé au mardi 10 juin 2008 à 18:30 chez nos amis des Nomades.
Le programme sortira un peu de l’ordinaire avec une présentation de Florian Egger (PhD in Human-Computer Interaction), qui est Usability & User Experience Consultant, créateur de Telono.com. Il [...]

Shari Thurow, the Founder and SEO Director of Omni Marketing Interactive wrote a very interesting answer in led-digest.com about the solution I blogged a while ago: ‘Holy Grail: SEO Model for Flash and Flex Content‘.
Here are a few quotes of her, with my answer below:
[...]as long as you are giving search engines one version of [...]

The Acid test suite checking the browser compliance with certain web standards.
Since April 2007, the version #3 of the Acid Test is open to the world and the results are impressively bad to nearly all web browsers.
According to a Wikipedia article the test is a suite with 100 subtests, in six groups, called “buckets”:

Bucket [...]

It seems that the Internet Explorer team from Microsoft is working hard to improve the quality of the much criticized non standard compliance IE generation (5 – 6 -7).
With respect to standards and interoperability, our goal in developing Internet Explorer 8 is to support the right set of standards with excellent implementations and do so [...]

Read/WriteWeb has published a list of the Top 10 marketable web development skills. I’m happy to see that Flash and ActionScript are part of the list!
Even if I don’t fully agree with this list I do think that it is interesting to make such a list, so here the list of skills I found important [...]

I had came across the notion of Credibility some times ago but at that time I didn’t take the time to read more about it. The notion is quite old (buzz started 2002) Now that I’m going a bit deeper in the art of web design if found Credibility very interesting.
Credibility / Persuasion is going [...]

World Usability Day was founded to ensure that the services and products
important to life are easier to access and simpler to use.
Even if this year the theme is health, it is a good time to check our website for usability issues, more and more visitors expect to have an usable website (also in terms of [...]

Via Technology review,
[...]After 30 years, it’s finally reached a point where it can be brought into the world[...]
A search engine that would finds the best answer by considering the meaning and context of the question and related Web pages, I’m dreaming about it, they said they nearly achieve it!
We will have to wait until September [...]

As I use more and more the SWFObject, I took some time to create a Dreamweaver extension that insert the SWFObject Script and the Div with most of the options I ever need with it.
I just tested it on DW CS3, and it worked well as long as you are in design or split [...]