Neat Redesign

There is a lot to do for promoting a website: write content, fix page titles, write meta descriptions (for the people, not the search engines), add title attributes where necessary, make sure the site is search engine friendly, submit to some directories, promote the site using other techniques, etc. But does a single person has to do that?

There has been a discussion at Marketing Profs on how the marketing people call the individuals, using their products or services.

As noted, each word has its own connotation and some (like user) may be even derogatory, as it treats a person like a mindless being. On a related note, here is how people of different professions may call people:

Increasing revenue is the main concern of nearly every business (if not, it should be) and everyone seeks any ways to get an extra competitive edge. Another way of genearating income is to increase sales force efficiency.

Some have been noticing that Web Content Accessibility Guidelines themselves were not quite accessible to their target readers - the webmasters.

The Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) has even created three sections of the guidelines: general description, about understanding the guidelines and the techniques, used to comply with them. It is quite ironic the organization, which goal is to create accessible web content, created more or less complex instructions for the web designers.

Taking web standards into account when designing a website may not be the primary concern for many site owners, but when it comes to finding an extra edge to improve their business, they are more than willing to do anything required to increase revenues. Let’s see how complying with the Web standards can help a business website.

Jared Spool of UIE.com used an analogy of glasses in the kitchen when describing information architecture of large websites. He also asks the question whether it is a good analogy or not.

To me, it is quite obvious. Otherwise, he wouldn’t have asked the question.

Check out the CSS techniques of 2006 from Matt Wilcox.

Though they are not on pure CSS, they are something new in the CSS styling.
For instance, a new CSS rounded borders method is presented, along with a cute fade-in link hover effect. Suppose they are worth just checking out to broaden one’s scope of knowledge, if not to put em up on your website.