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With all the backlash against the iPad and it’s lack of Flash support I thought it would be a good time to reflect on the proper use of Flash on the web. More »

Web standards are a good thing.

Depending on your relationship with the internet, you may have no idea what I am talking about. Web standards have been evolving for many years. They started off with a handful of ‘best practices’ to follow when designing and coding your webpages. Today’s definition of web standards means giving your markup semantic meaning so the information would be understandable even with no design elements applied to it. This means properly coding headlines with headline tags, paragraphs with paragraph tags and so on. It also means giving your markup a structure and using naming conventions that make sense.

HTML5 takes cues from web standards programming and goes one step further. More »

In keeping with my current trend of posting ridiculously easy tips and solutions, I thought I’d post a story about a recent client experience where we used an off-the-shelf solution that’s not always thought of as either cheap or easy. Here’s the situation: my client has videos that he needs to share with his clients in a far away land (LA), and he’d like to do this on his MobileMe website. Ideally, he’d like to have a webpage setup for each of his clients so that they could choose their clip by clicking on a thumbnail of the video, and each page should be limited to just those clips that a particular client would need to see. In other words, the same basic web-based client review process that just about every other creative pro would like to have. More »

Are you tired of only being able to choose between Helvetica or Arial for a nice sans-serif font on your website. Perhaps Georgia or Times New Roman doesn’t really have the panache you are seeking for your corporate homepage?

For years, the selection of ‘web-safe’ fonts has been limited. Typekit is attempting to undo some of this old thinking when it comes to typography on the web. More »