Good Design in Ten Commandments

This list of the ten most important criteria for good design by Dieter Rams is applicable to web site design, web development, web applications, and software development even though he’s writing in the context of physical products. Wonderful. http://www.vitsoe.com/en/gb/about/gooddesign

iStockPhoto now has royalty-free Audio

A great resource if you are looking for audio for web site projects. At CodeGeek.net, we’ve used iStockPhoto for several years now for low-cost, high-quality stock photos for many of our web site developement projects. We were excited to learn that they now also carry royalty-free audio for web sites. Over 10,000 tracks are now… Read more »

Social Network Integration

Check out PingpressFM. If you use WordPress and also use other social media networks you might find this useful. It’s a little quirky to set up, but I’ve got it configured to update my accounts at Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn. It is customizable. I have mine set so that my blog posts always go to… Read more »

User Experience gone wrong – United Airlines Easy Check-in Online

While checking in for a United Airlines flight today using their web site Easy Check-in Online system today, I noticed they made an “improvement” to the check-in sequence. In the normal flow of reviewing seats, I was taken to this screen which “conveniently” offers me the opportunity to upgrade to first class at a cost… Read more »

Understanding Google Ranking and Its Ever-Elusive Algorithm

When talking recently with Ron Z, founder of CodeGeek.net, about Google he reminded me, “Remember Rule #1: It doesn’t have to make sense.” Never is that sentence more true than when it comes to Google’s ranking system. I conducted hours of research in an attempt to discover why Google Maps (formerly known as Google Local)… Read more »

HooRay for User Experience!

Ron and I had the pleasure of attending Adaptive Path’s UX (User Experience) Week in San Francisco last month. As the title implies, this annual conference focuses on user experience which, as defined by mayhamandchaos.com, is a term used to describe the overall experience and satisfaction a user has when using a product or system…. Read more »

The Web is Flat

My Fort Collins-based business, CodeGeek.net, is a distributed company of loosely affiliated collaborators. We have just one employee at the moment, that would be me, and about fifteen or so highly-skilled experts who contribute to our work on a regular basis. Regina is our main project manager, operations consultant, and Search Engine Optimizer. She lives… Read more »

A Lil’ Somethin’ For The Non-Technical: Web Development 101

Are you the last person on your block without a web site? Are you looking to have a site developed for you? Are you non-technical and unsure of how exactly to proceed in your website’s re-designing process? If you answered yes to any of the above, keep reading! Many people seeking web site development or… Read more »