Everything related to standards-oriented web design, including visual design, web design technologies (such as XHTML and CSS), web implementation and user agents.
As you may or may not be aware, the English Ministry Web Site runs on a Content Management System called Drupal. Admittedly I am a Drupal fan, given its features and extendability. Apparently, there are other Drupal fans out there, too, but this may just be a bit over the top.
Just out of curiosity, here are the 21 top phrases used in search engines to reach my church’s English Ministry web site for May 2006. I’ve removed names due to privacy. chinese church prayer items [Missionary couple] thailand kyck [Preacher who preaches regularly at the English service] equip women metrogaine 2006 [Member of my congregation] […]
A List Apart is a web design weblog to which I subscribe (and read occasionally). Normally the topics deal with web design (i.e. how to design a good, standards-compliant web page), or web design project management (i.e. how to deal with clients). So I’m more than a little curious to see this particular article about […]
Jakob Nielsen recently published the ten best intranets of 2006. He noted that This is the first year in which a majority of the winners hail from outside the United States, underlining the continued growth of good intranet design around the world. On top of the list (in alphabetical order) is Allianz Australia. For some […]
Jakob Nielsen recently released an article on his Alertbox on the top ten design mistakes for weblog usability. Among the mistakes, and my self-assessment against this weblog, are: No author biographies (sort of guilty) No author photo (guilty) Nondescript posting titles (not guilty!) Links don’t say where they go (not guilty!) Classic hits are buried […]
As an occasional dabbler in web design, one needs the necessary tools to do it quickly and do it well. I develop in Mozilla Firefox, since it’s generally standards-compliant, and generally less annoying than Internet Explorer. This blog entry and accompanying slide show, showing all the web developer extensions that are available, again reaffirms that […]
You’ve probably have noticed that the English Ministry web site has a slightly improved look and feel. That’s right. The Drupal theme (called “leaf”) has been upgraded to version 2.0! Changes: Converted most GIFs into PNGs or JPEGs, as required Added shadows to sidebars and footer Changed sidebar heading styling The flag now fades to […]
This is interesting for Windows users.