“The whole point of weblogs is to share knowledge, ideas, and some small amount of self promotion (or exhibitionism, depending on the blog). If you design your weblog so that a disabled user has a hard time reading your ideas and thoughts you are losing part of your audience and you are missing an opportunity to share your ideas with a wider circle. And it’s just not fair.”

“Can we talk about web design? Let’s. Since I put up that CSS Box Lesson back in March I’ve been buried with email questions. A root confusion seems to be how we’re approaching the web; what we think a web page is, and how this affects our layout choices. A lot of people paint themselves into a corner, quite innocently, and then get very frustrated that their layout won’t ‘work’. Here’s my thoughts on approach. I don’t mean to be dictatorial. I’m just putting down my viewpoint to give people who want it some groundwork to build from.”

“In the same way that a great concept is the foundation of a great logo, information architecture is the foundation of a useful Web site. Whether it’s in your face, or barely noticeable, an architecture needs to be clear and understandable and it needs to communicate. Architecture, navigation and interface design combined with visual branding, determine the overall user experience and influence the audience’s brand perception. The architecture is the foundation that supports a site’s navigation and interface design. As the foundation, it needs to fit the content and communicate the appropriate message.”

“This is the archive for the SIGIA-L@asis.org mailing list.”

“Concept maps have long provided visual languages widely used in many different disciplines and application domains. This article reports experience in taking an existing open architecture concept mapping tool and making it available on the Web in a number of ways: as a client helper downloading and uploading concept maps; as an active controller of the browser, indexing multimedia material through URLs embedded in concept maps; as a concept map creator controlled by the browser, generating concept maps through the browsing process; and as an auxiliary HTTP server making concept maps available as clickable maps for users who do not have the client helper or want to use active concept maps embedded in documents.”

“Can we talk about web design? Let’s. Since I put up that CSS Box Lesson back in March I’ve been buried with email questions. A root confusion seems to be how we’re approaching the web; what we think a web page is, and how this affects our layout choices. A lot of people paint themselves into a corner, quite innocently, and then get very frustrated that their layout won’t ‘work’. Here’s my thoughts on approach. I don’t mean to be dictatorial. I’m just putting down my viewpoint to give people who want it some groundwork to build from.”