In april, A List Apart launched a survey as a promise to be the biggest survey among web professionals. This week, after a whole six months of crunching results, the digest was published.
On this field that is so young, yet so important, with a future that is up to us to build, a survey like this is really something to analyze carefully, among the enormous amount of useful data you’ll find, for instance, the better paid web related professions and age and gender distributions of professionals.
Everyday we buy things that we don’t need or we only need for limited time. Sometimes, we don’t know that until we have them. Yet, it doesn’t mean it doesn’t have any use for anyone.
Throwing away things perfectly working things we don’t use is not a good option, we are creating mountains of garbage, donating them to charity is a nice option but sometimes is hard to chose the one that needs more that particular thing.
If you give to charity just about everything you don’t want, you increase the work they have to chose the things they need and you charge them with the duty to get rid of the things you had to.
In honor of Blog Action Day, today’s post will discuss what social web can do for our functional garbage.
On most serious websites guidelines to make passwords include not to use pet names, birth dates, wedding dates and words on dictionaries because they are too easy to guess and can be easily cracked to get access to your account.
What really amazes me is that after you pick a (hopefully) hard to guess password and possibly not easy to remember the very system asks you for a “security question” to help you case you forget your hard-to-guess password and these questions are ofter as stupid as your pet name, which is precisely the kind of thing that you should avoid as password.
There has been a great fuzz lately about the Nofollow attribute on links and I think every publisher of new media (bloggers and alike) should take a stand either against or in favor of this discussion.
I took mine and I have disabled nofollow on this blog, but before I get on the discussion, let me first overview what the nofollow atribute is.
Trying to increase the quality of service of the Zo’C blog and trying to reduce my effort to manage spam and approve comments quicky I’ve just instaled the Comment-Policy WordPress plugin.
I decided to share a list of my favorite WordPress plugins for those of you who might be interested, but before anything else, I want to encourage people to use WordPress instead of Blogger.
There are many well regarded blogging platforms around that I don’t really know well, but I do know well blogger and wordpress and I certainly think that blogger is not nearly a serious platform as WordPress is.
I won’t extend this subject on this post, you’ll have to trust me on this, but I do want to give three arguments in favor of wordpress.
In december I’ve wrote an article talking a little bit about color theory and featuring Kuler, a very nice and useful tool from Adobe to explore the color theory.
Now, reading the Usabilità blog I came across with a nice tool that is much simpler, but has the power to bring insight when choosing colors for web pages. Also has the advantage that no much color theory is needed to use it. Very useful tool.
If this appeals to you, check Yafla.
Except for some people that were born with some strong color sense in their veins, most of us know that matching colors is not naturally easy.
Black and white are easy to match, adding and third color to this mixture is simple as well, but putting another color on the game may be very painful for untrained eyes.
Whether you are a web, graphic, fashion or any other kind of visual designer or not. It is probable that you will have to deal with color at some point, because it is likely that you will interact with a designer’s work.
Quite often I find introductions to HTML texts longer than they should. They explain how problems from the past can be solved with a new approach, things that existed in the past and you shouldn’t be using anymore.
And to do that, often texts name those practices. And because some people may not know that particular technique, they may even explain it, just to tell you that you should never use it, and that you were happy if you weren’t acquainted with it on the first place.
The web is there for a reasonably long time now, and some readers of a text like this one, may never lived the time when were formed the practices that are condemned today.
Guilherme
Zühlke O'Connor
is a passionated Web Designer and Developer focused on Web Standards and the web ahead of us currently working as a Webdev for
Yahoo! Europe
inLondon, UK.
On his free time he enjoys cinema, travelling, cooking and eating.
