How To Write With Power And Authority Even If You Feel Like A Nobody
Good content is the foundation of any website’s success. It doesn’t matter how awesome your product or service is, or how much of a difference it can make in the lives of others. If you don’t tell...
View ArticleDon’t Put All Your Eggs In A Closed Basket
The open web continues to remain important, regardless of how much ink it gets. But every once in a while, something happens, and that event throws a light on why the open web is so important. At the...
View ArticleThe Prettiest Design In The World Will Not Make Up For Crappy Content
As someone who builds websites, I come across the following scenario all too often. Someone contacts me, and tells me that they either need to update an existing website, or build a new one, and they...
View ArticleReviewing 2016
2016’s been a bit rough around here. Three close friends have died, two from cancer and one of them in a car accident. Two of those deaths happened recently, less than a month apart, and I’m still...
View ArticleThe Web Profession Needs To Get Its Act Together Or We’re In Deep Trouble
Update: This article was originally posted at A List Apart, and generated a lot of very thoughtful and insightful comments. It has since been taken down, and re-posted at Heather Burns’ site. It’s...
View ArticleToo Many Hashtags Will Kill You
Hashtags are like a lot of things in life. They definitely should be used, especially if you’re trying to signal to specific groups of people or specific causes on social media, but there is such a...
View ArticleJust Because They Say It’s Accessible Doesn’t Make It So
Adrian Roselli has written what I think is an excellent post on how to test a vendor’s claims of what I like to refer to as a11yworthiness. Back in the bad old days, before the WordPress Accessibility...
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Friendly public service announcement: If you store, process or transmit credit card data, you are responsible for ensuring that you are PCI compliant. Use a third-party payment processor and transmit...
View ArticleKeeping track of unbillable time spent on free software contributions and...
I spent some time today putting a system in place to track the unbillable time I spend on contributions to free software, and when I say contribution I’m being pretty liberal about what counts as...
View ArticleRead: “The struggle is real: Self-serve SEO or pay for page rank?” by...
Read The struggle is real: Self-serve SEO or pay for page rank? by Laura Legendary (Accessible Insights Blog) To plagiarize the 80’s pop ditty, everybody wants to rule the world. When it comes to...
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