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Alongside my daily work as a search engine optimisation specialist I’m very much involved with the design and development of websites. For the development of dynamic database driven websites and applications my programming language of choice is ASP (Active Server Pages). However, for a long time now I’ve always been plagued by a very irritating SQL/ASP ism which I’ve never been able to find a definitive answer for, until now.

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I regularly come in contact with many print designers who insist on designing websites as well as promoting their services as web designers or so called ‘interface designers’.

So I’d just like to take this opportunity to say that, in my experience, print designers can’t design websites. Why is this the case though? What does a print designer need to consider when attempting a new website design project? Here are my thoughts on the matter. (more…)

There is nothing new about web standards. They’ve been around almost since 1994, but what are web standards and what are their benefits?

What are web standards?

Web standards are a set of guidelines set out by The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) which aims to provide a blue print for the long term use and development of the internet. The general jist of the W3C guidelines revolves around making websites accessible to all web users regardless of ability, disability or method of internet access. The core tool in making standards compliant websites is XHTML and CSS (cascading style sheets). The XHTML uses sementic markup to display the websites content in a logical order. The CSS code, which is located in an external stylesheet, governs the page layout and design. Different stylesheets can be written for different media types such as browsers, printers, screen readers and pda’s (more…)