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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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Eleven landing-page mistakes
The humble landing page or mini-site is a powerful tool in on-line marketing. It is also the point where the true conversion happens, where a click becomes a sale, so to say. (Or a lead.) Yet surprisingly they ...
The SNAFU on-line
The Internet is often likened to a giant repository of information. Anything that hits the 'net' is likely to stay there. At the very least it will linger a long time in the archives of search engines. Lately ...
The Forum Fa(i)llacy
Whenever people discuss marketing their site with me, I inevitably get the question; should I have a forum? Usually people look a bit pained or worried when asking this. They often look relieved when my answer ...
Why no float:center
I am known as a web standards-zealot. I will get this out of the way first. There are right ways to do things, and wrong ways. I will always opt for the right way if given half a chance. But I like to think of ...