Category: Web, Tech & Design

Web accessibility is about universal access. It is the idea that any user should be able to access all content on the Web, regardless of platform, user agent, or physical disability. This is not some lofty philosophical ideal. It is just plain good business. As with usability, accessibility is not a binary thing. While accessibility…

A community and resource site for musicians and production coordinators in the Great Commission Association. This is a little pet project of mine in order to foster communication and share ideas with others who are doing the same thing I am doing with music in Ames, IA. The coolest part about this is the custom…

This last session was fairly amazing, though there isn’t much to sum up here. This is what I came to the conference for, to watch Jason Santa Maria and Eric Meyer walk through their design and development process. There weren’t a whole lot of notes to take. It’s something you have to see in person,…

9:00 – Zeldman – Intro, overview, formalities. We are in the middle of a revolution in information transfer; the first since the advent of movable type (Gutenburg’s, not Six Apart’s); the first revolution in the way information is transmitted in 500 years. We are here today to rethink what we do and understand its importance.…

7:51am – After a rather pleasant train ride through the suburbs into the city, I am sitting in a Starbuck’s in the downtown Marriot drinking a $4 hot milk drink (with a little caramel and espresso flavoring. (a.k.a., the Caramel “Macchiato” which isn’t actually a Macchiato and is barely caramel…). It was amazing to see…