9 Benefits of Twitter for Bloggers
20 Foods To Snack On For Enhanced Productivity
Amazon’s obsession with customers pays off
21 Factors to Consider Before a Redesign
Evolution of a Header
HTML 5 differences from HTML 4
The Only Way For Journalists To Understand The Web Is To Use It
12 Steps to Creating [...]

We have been asked more and more to create HTML emails, they look attractive and do allow for more visual exposure for the sender. The problem is security, email clients (most) by default do not display images unless they are attached to the email. This becomes a problem when sending out ~40,000 emails and its [...]

If you don’t already have your head around the recent articles regarding IE8 and its three rendering modes you should, it is going to be a fact of life soon.
Basically it comes down to IE rendering pages in three modes, the “old mode”, the IE7 half standards mode and IE8 full standards mode. It makes [...]

We have added a new member to our team, Chris Pelzer starts today as a full time web developer. Chris has worked in the department for two years as a web technician. During those two years he has worked on most of our high traffic applications and sites. His knowledge of the industry and optimization [...]

Yesterday I attended a seminar here at Wayne State University that was streamed from the University of Michigan. The seminar was called “Coming to Terms: Understanding Folksonomy”. Thomas Vander Wal, the speaker at the seminar, is often credited for coining the term “folksonomy”. Folksonomy is closely related to Taxonomy. According to Wikipedia taxonomy is “the [...]

Fluid: Wrap your favorite web apps in their own browser
Yahoo! implements OpenID
Evolve Your User Interface To Educate Your Users
The iGoogle Themes API
Is experience better than talent?
White paper – distributed influence: quantifying the impact of social media
Web page production with xHTML and CSS
Hard and soft deadlines, and the Martini Method
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We have just expanded our vcard microformated university address from the university homepage to all pages in the universities Content Management System. The list can be found here, it doesn’t include all the pages by far but it is a crucial step to integrate microformats into all pages at the university. Not only the vcard [...]

The admissions homepage grows every semester, new programs being promoted and others ending. For most prospective students this is the first or second (wayne.edu or a print piece being first) impression of the university. Making the page engaging is key since getting them to the site is half way to applying. Including a random student [...]

Friday web design links go web only. Enjoy.

A Three-Step Approach to Strategic Content Development
RulesofThumb.org
J.J. Abrams: The mystery box talk
Do you think you’re a strategist? You’re probably wrong.
Introduction to semantic HTML
Politweets mixes Twitter and Election ‘08
Ten Common Objections to Social Media Adoption and How You Can Respond
Geek Trends: 15 Footers with great usability by Pop Upon [...]

Branching out past the confines of our university homepage means working with public API’s and services. We started yesterday with Twitter, the first of many social and external sites we will be pushing information.
We choose twitter mainly because of its simplicity. The idea of having a full blown facebook application with no street credit seemed [...]