Web Design

⇒ Findings From the A List Apart Web Design Survey (link from Oct 16, 2007)

In April, A List Apart conducted the first survey of web design professionals. I took it, and I contacted my web designer cohorts and asked them to take it. Apparently, so did everyone else, because nearly 33,000 people ended up taking the survey. This is the first survey of its kind, and the results are a bit surprising.

⇒ Dashalytics (link from Jul 24, 2007)

A Mac dashboard app for getting at-a-glance info from Google Analytics.

⇒ Let there be web divisions (link from Jul 4, 2007)

From law firms to libraries, from universities to Fortune 500 companies, the organization’s website almost invariably falls under the domain of the IT Department or the Marketing Department, leading to turf wars and other predictable consequences. While many good (and highly capable) people work in IT and marketing, neither area is ideally suited to craft usable websites or to encourage the blossoming of vital web communities.