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In the ideal web developer's world, we want all visitors to a website to start at the home page; thats what its there for. To smoothly guide your users to the different subsections or features if they prefer browsing, show experienced users where to get the latest relevant information, and have an appropiate way for users to search the page. But that may not always be the case: the home page will not be the entry point for most users ...

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Around a year ago now, when I was working at Active Webdezign, I built a small CMS for a website, no more that 5 pages to it. One thing I was thinking of back then was the ability to create a system where you could have a single table for all pages, but have the ability to havarte parent and child pages without the need to create another table. Basically like Wordpress does it. And at the time, I knew ...

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"We don't read text, we scan it": Don't Make Me Think, Krug, 2006. The web is an interesting medium for communicating a message to a user. Compared with say, print, the methods employed to do so are different chiefly because the web has that extra dimension: interaction, hence the reason that translation from one medium to another is often not as successfull as you might think. The other element that the web often has is the ability to travel through ...

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The worst client I have ever worked for is myself. A dozen times since I mentioned I was going to do a redesign I've gone through the same process: get a brain wave for a site structure and design, spend countless hours dodging other work while I code it into XHTML and CSS, then spend so long looking at the design while I'm doing other things that I get sick of it. This one was the exception. I actually did the ...

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