Web design

In general, your website’s navigation is not the place to show off your creativity and ability to think outside the box. I always think it’s like an elevator. You step into the elevator and find a cool slideshow on the wall, or a quilted and beaded interior, or a dropped ceiling with interesting lights and…

I wrote about Planning Websites for Older Users a couple of years ago, and the subject has come up again. At that time, we had identified two areas of primary concern: Contrast level of text People over 55 or so have less ability to read text that doesn’t contrast well with the background. This is…

Some of you know that I teach Freshman Comp in my spare time. I think it’s worth doing; as we work more with people in different places around the world, being able to communicate in writing becomes even more important.

Many industries have a certain look. Store of the Community, whose screen shot you see at right, does some special things, but some of the things they do may be familiar to you: giant inflatables, mascots like Chester the Cheetah, and costumed staff members running events like rodeo trivia quizzes. It’s “retailtainment,” the stuff that…

We’re working on a redesign of a local nonprofit agency’s website. The agency needed an update for the sake of more current content and a fresh look, but the main reason they just had to have an update was that their old site was obsolete from the point of view of the technology. This naturally…