Web design

Posts in the web design category touch upon aspects of website creation, styling, theming, publishing, and more. For example, WordPress or Jekyll themes or other code might fall into this category.The following content is in the web-design category:

From DITA to docs-as-code and Docusaurus: Q&A with Mike Howes | May 16, 2023

Newsletter: AI doc alerts, state of tools, saying easy or just, automated writing teams | May 2, 2023

Pages at a glance -- the importance of the first two sentences of any topic | Sep 15, 2018

Version 3.0 of my Documentation theme for Jekyll released | Aug 13, 2015

Recording of Innovation in Technical Communication keynote at tcworld India 2015 | Mar 18, 2015

DocOps: Interview with Jim Turcotte | Oct 21, 2014

Diverging Directions for Tech Comm: Social Media or Structured Authoring | Jun 9, 2011

Arguments for and Against Tripane Help | Mar 17, 2011

The Real Source of Findability | Mar 10, 2011

Trends in Search Engine Optimization -- Shifting from Search to Social? | Feb 28, 2011

I am perhaps finishing my basement, someday | Feb 23, 2011

The Problem of Free and the Long Tail of Content Production | Feb 7, 2011

WordPress Tip: Integrating a WordPress Blog into your Website | Dec 9, 2010

Paper.li as an Alternative to Google Reader [Screencast] | Oct 8, 2010

Emergence [Organizing Content #19] | Jul 20, 2010

Does a Technical Writer Need to Understand Web Design? | Jul 6, 2010

Designing from the Content/Story Out | Jun 28, 2010

Embedded Links and Online Reading Accessibility: Whitney Quesenbery and Caroline Jarrett, #stc10 | May 7, 2010

What Would a WordPress Template for Chapter Sites Look Like? | Feb 2, 2010

Fragmented Communities and the Chapter/SIG Web Site Problem | Feb 1, 2010

Web Site Critique and WordPress Q&A Webinar This Thursday | Jan 26, 2010

Implementing Google Custom Search on WordPress | Jan 8, 2010

Site Critiques and WordPress Q&A -- Community Leaders Webinar Jan 28 | Dec 5, 2009

Why Help Authoring Tools Will Fade | Nov 25, 2009

How to Incorporate Twitter into Your Presentation | Nov 15, 2009

A Few Surprises in Using a Wiki for Documentation | Oct 29, 2009

Being unreadable (Sins of blogging) | Oct 17, 2009

Google Releases Sidewiki and Adds to the Growing Trend of Conversation | Sep 29, 2009

Smashing Magazine Lists 10 Web Usability Guidelines | Sep 27, 2009

New Content Strategy SIG | Sep 27, 2009

Podcast with Anne Gentle about her Conversation and Community book | Aug 26, 2009

Review of Conversation and Community: The Social Web for Documentation | Aug 24, 2009

Converting Lurkers into Contributors in Online Communities -- Nielsen's 90-9-1 Rule | Aug 20, 2009

New York Times Starts a “What We're Reading” Section | Jul 17, 2009

Interactive Google Map of Where I Work | Jul 5, 2009

I Need Your Human Aggregated Content | Jun 29, 2009

Real Projects for Entry-Level Writers Trying to Build Their Portfolios | Jun 26, 2009

"What I'm Reading": A New Feature on My Site and a Tweak of Writer River | Jun 24, 2009

Blogging, Podcasting, and Screencasting: Eight Characteristics to Attract Devoted Followers [Part I] | Jun 14, 2009

WordPress Tip: “Crunching” and “Burning” | Jun 6, 2009

GUI Magnets -- Prototyping User Interfaces with Simple Magnets | May 13, 2009

Quick Reference Guides Right Where You Need Them | Apr 9, 2009

AP Article Leads to "Helping Husbands and Fathers" Photo Project | Apr 1, 2009

CSS-Tricks #1: Converting a Photoshop Mockup (part 1 of 3) | Feb 23, 2009

Trends in Web Design Involving WordPress | Feb 20, 2009

WordPress Tip: Merging Worlds: DITA and WordPress | Feb 8, 2009

My STC Intercom Article about Writer River and Community-Driven Websites | Jan 10, 2009

Good Designs Have Strong Contrast | Jan 3, 2009

Twitter Part II –- One Step Deeper | Dec 5, 2008

Guy Kawasaki's Alltop Site Now Includes Technical Writing | Nov 29, 2008

Seamlessly Integrating a Blog into Your Non-Blog Website | Oct 23, 2008

Another Collaborative Site: Read Scriptures Together | Aug 27, 2008

Too Connected – Utopias and Dystopias of Communication | Aug 18, 2008

Thank You Silahsiz Kuvvetler for Showing Me the Light | Aug 3, 2008

WordPress Tip: Woopra — Enough Live Site Stats to Write a Dissertation | Jul 8, 2008

My Compromise with SharePoint -- What Works and What Doesn't | Jun 23, 2008

Customizing Your SharePoint Site? Read These 10 Concepts/Gotchas First | Jun 21, 2008

Systems that Get Better the More People Use Them | Jun 12, 2008

Announcing WriterRiver.com, a Digg-like Social News Site for Technical Communicators | Jun 10, 2008

My First Guest Post -- And Best Writing Tip | Jun 5, 2008

Podcast: Analyzing Your Users and Needs Before Creating the Help Deliverables; Interview with Nicky Bleiel | May 31, 2008

Podcast: Document Engineering, Interview with Robert Glushko | May 17, 2008

WordPress Tip: Using WordPress to Build Websites Instead of Blogs | May 5, 2008

Seven Reasons Why I'm Twittering -- Especially During Conference Time | Mar 17, 2008

How My BlackBerry May Benefit You | Feb 27, 2008

Why You Should Send Me (and Other Bloggers) Your Products for Free | Feb 20, 2008

Technical Writing Careers -- Answering 13 Questions about Technical Writing Jobs | Feb 16, 2008

A Web 2.0 Documentation Idea Gone Wrong | Feb 6, 2008

Clearplay: An Ingenious DVD Player That Filters Movies Without Altering Them | Jan 28, 2008

How to Share Everything with Everyone (well, a few things anyway) | Jan 18, 2008

How to Get Out of a Slump, and Handle Pressure Situations Calmly | Jan 15, 2008

Online Anonymous Rating Sites: Empowering Individual Voices | Nov 7, 2007

Cool Example of AJAX in a Blog -- Increases Usability | Sep 15, 2007

Thoughts on the Accumulation of Stuff [Junk] | Aug 20, 2007

Rethinking the Importance of Screenshots, Diagrams, and Other Visuals | Aug 10, 2007

Resolving Browser Display Discrepancies Between IE and Firefox | Jul 17, 2007

The Paradox of White Space: Some Research and Examples of White Space in Web Design | Jul 9, 2007

Switching from Desktop to Online Tools | Jul 3, 2007

Converting Your WordPress Blog into a CMS (Content Management System) | Jul 1, 2007

Economic Prosperity Tied to Openness and Tolerance, says Richard Florida; Also, Thoughts on Inclusive, Distributed Leadership | Jun 27, 2007

Search Engine Optimization for Your Blog: Three Easy Techniques, and also Drawbacks to SEO | Jun 26, 2007

POPURLS -- Consolidated News Aggregation From Digg, Del.icio.us, Reddit, Tailrank, Newsvine, and 20 Other Sites | Jun 20, 2007

PostSecret -- a Postcard Confession Site, Fathers Theme | Jun 17, 2007

Intro to Information Architecture -- Reflections on the Different Roles We Can Play | Jun 16, 2007

Google Master Plan Video -- Speculations on the Hidden Purposes Behind Google's Information Collection | Jun 13, 2007

Making of the Oxford English Dictionary -- Recommended Podcast | Jun 6, 2007

Lip Dub Video Clip Captures Essence of the Web -- Spontaneity, Authenticity, Participation, Fun | Jun 5, 2007

Vista Help Emphasizes Concepts in Effort to Create Power Users | Jun 4, 2007

Google 411 -- Free Information Listings via Phone | May 2, 2007

Perfect Explanation of RSS -- Engaging Video Tutorial | May 2, 2007

Free Conference Call Recording/Podcasting Service at FreeConferencing.LiveOffice.com | Apr 29, 2007

Jott—a Free Voicemail to Transcribed Text Memo Service | Apr 28, 2007

Where I'm Going, My Aspirations -- Everything Seems to Align with Web 2.0 | Apr 20, 2007

How to Subscribe to RSS Feeds with Internet Explorer 7 | Mar 30, 2007

MySQL CEO Says, "It is dangerous to hire someobody who has too much experience." | Mar 28, 2007

WordPress vs. Movable Type: The Advantages of Open Source and What It Means for Technical Writers | Mar 27, 2007

Yahoo Pipes and the Mashed Up World of Aggregated, Filtered, Blended Information | Mar 24, 2007

The Evolutionary Strategy of Web 2.0 — It's Like Having 100 Personal Researchers Working For You | Mar 13, 2007

Microformats and the Semantic Web | Mar 11, 2007

37 Signals, To Do Lists — Printable To Do Lists To Get Organized | Feb 27, 2007

My First Virtual Administrative Meeting | Feb 27, 2007

Spinvox: The Next Killer App. for Cell Phones | Feb 24, 2007

Never Listen to Voicemail via Cell Phone Again — Callwave.com & Spinvox Deliver Voicemail to Email for Free | Feb 22, 2007

Suncoast Member Map Finished | Feb 22, 2007

Making a Chapter Member Map Mashup with Google Maps | Feb 8, 2007

Survey Gizmo: The best tool/thing I have used/done | Jan 31, 2007

Web Developer Firefox Extension Makes CSS Editing Easy | Jan 13, 2007

Read a Book by E-mail, a Little Each Day with Daily Lit | Jan 11, 2007

Make your computer run faster by disabling all the auto-startup programs | Dec 27, 2006

Web 2.0 dieting and nutrition site: Sparkpeople.com | Dec 27, 2006

WordPress as Budgeting Software: Mo.neytrack.in | Dec 26, 2006

Why Blogger is more popular than WordPress: Ease of Use | Dec 25, 2006

Using Gmail to read Threaded Conversations from Listservs | Dec 21, 2006

Skype Firefox Exention Changes Phone Numbers into Buttons | Dec 15, 2006

Open Source Folder Compression Utility -- 7 Zip | Dec 11, 2006

Posting Youtube Videos — A Required Tone for Internet Audiences? | Dec 7, 2006

Creating your own RSS Feed | Dec 5, 2006

Looking up IP addresses | Nov 30, 2006

Wordpress to offer Enterprise Edition | Nov 21, 2006

Open Source Software and Wikis | Nov 9, 2006

Checking out Youtube: A Few Fun Videos to Watch | Nov 8, 2006

Top 100 blogs and top 100 podcasts | Nov 6, 2006

Two useful tools for surveys and webinars | Nov 6, 2006

Combining Podcasting with Technical Writing | Sep 21, 2006

DITA Structured Blogging and Online Help | Sep 14, 2006

Websort -- Testing out the Logical Taxonomy of your Site | Sep 11, 2006