David Dylan Jessurun does webdesign, SEO/SEM and Usability consulting.
He believes in a holistic apoproach to the web; marketing, (standards-based) design, technology and espresso make for a website which earns you money, ignore one and the others will cost you money.
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Customers lie
Customers, users, clients; call them what you will, they lie. They may not be intending to, and only a few may actually be trying to swindle you, but they do. Ask a user about your site or product and ...
Your way to the bank
I heard a quote today I liked: “We have to pick our fights on the way to the bank”. Too true. We can be idealistic about standards and design all we like; if a boss or a client wants something, he/she is ...
The Harpoon or the Net
Once you decide to learn more about online copywriting, you quickly find out there are two schools of thought. One school hammers the reader with red headlines, yellow highlighting, and aggressive copy that ...
Web accessibility myths
With more and more countries around the world passing laws about blind and disabled access to the Internet (including the Disability Discrimination Act in the UK), web accessibility has been thrown into the ...
Baaaad accessibility
Accessibility is a hotly debated issue. Everybody seems to know, and feel the need to defend with a fiery zealotry, the answers and by answers I mean “myths”. Either it’s the myth that accessibility is ...
Accessibility charlatans
Accessibility is being mentioned more and more in fairly mainstream media here in Sweden. Lately I’ve seen two articles in Swedish press, and while it is good that accessibility is getting some attention, ...
The final countdown
For things to go horribly wrong it often takes only a single point of failure. More often than not, however, when things go wrong there is a cascading effect of multiple points of failure. It is said that the ...
7 Bad Writing Habits
Ask an English teacher, and they’ll tell you good writing is grammatically correct. They’ll tell you it makes a point and supports it with evidence. Maybe, if they’re really honest, they’ll admit it ...