Web design and development

In recent years there has been a trend towards visual overload in web design. In trying to buck this trend the example of Josef Müller Brockmann is instructive.

Web accessibility isn’t just about meeting a set of guidelines. You need an appreciation of WHY you are making your site accessible, as well as who you are doing it for.

Browser font-handling has always been a big restriction on web design. However, there is a Flash and javaScript-based technique that opens up new possibilities.

Jakob Nielson’s “Designing Web Usability” may be in dire need of a second edition, but it remains an important source of guidance for new web designers.

Html Agility Pack is a good solution for people wanting to read and parse web pages into a consistent and familar object model using ASP.NET.

A common mistake that people make when developing web sites for accessibility is to use tables to control their layouts.

Your database interactions are among the most expensive operations you’ll perform in an ASP.NET application.