I came across an interesting article in my RSS reader last week, and since it’s a sales blog, the headline instantly caught my eye — Seemingly Little Mistakes That Cost You Big Opportunities.  When reading the section about “doing a poor diagnosis or needs analysis,” I couldn’t help but think about how the same mistake is made in planning websites.

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With the release of the iPad this past weekend, many web design companies and consultants like us are scrambling to test client web sites on the iPad. Here’s an online application that lets you see your web site on the iPad and what you need to look for.

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Lately, I’ve been thinking and reading a lot about marketing lead generation. For many companies, the economy has really caused slumping sales.  Some are responding by stepping up their sales efforts, and the most intelligent companies are improving their web sites to generate more leads.

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Having worked on a content-rich sites my entire career, including managing design for an over 750,000-page behemoth early in my career, I’ve learned a lot about how to approach planning large web sites.

Here are some tips that we’ve included in our “Analysis” phase of projects to make planning a big site go smoothly.

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As a follow-up to yesterday’s post on development for IE 6, I thought it might be appropriate to show you how to know if IE 6 (or any browser, for that matter) should be a consideration for your web development project.  Here’s how to know.

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I read a terrific blog post recently at QuirksMode called “State of the Browsers — IE edition.”  Aside from predicting the future usage of IE browser versions, the article called for web developers to charge extra for IE 6 support.

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