Category: Web Development

Posts related to Web design, development, and project management.

  • Web Design Woes

    This latest addition to the “Historical Perspective” section was originally inspired by a post on a fellow Web Designer’s site. Originally posted on September 5, 2003, some of the content may be a bit dated but the overall concepts and intent are timeless. In trying to revive Anthurian, I’ve been questioning my intentions and sensibilities,…

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  • Monoculture Mentalities vs. Compatibility: How Developers’ Myopia Impacts User Experience

    This latest installment to the “Historical Perspective” section may be a bit dated in terms of me needing to use Netscape 4.8 but the overall theme is timeless. If I were to write this article now, little would need to be updated. This was originally posted to Anthurian on November 11, 2004. Much to my…

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  • Displaying Out-dated, Broken Links

    As I’m going through the archives of my former site, I’ve been wondering what I should do in regards to broken links. Rather than restore the archived content and leave the links intact, I’ve been going through and trying to make sure that they are still relevant but, if the links no longer point to…

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  • Wanna Buy a Web Site? A Primer

    Continuing my “Historical Perspective” series, this article was originally posted on February 10th, 2003. With the benefit of over 7 years of hindsight, I would probably have done a better job explaining things but, for newbies to the Web, I still think this is a valid high-level primer. I received an email from a business…

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  • Culling through the Anthurian archives

    Thankfully I have been able to recover a number of posts from previous versions of Anthurian.com; unfortunately many of those posts are woefully out-dated and contain numerous broken links. For the time being, I plan on continuing with the “Historical Perspective” posts until I can figure out what direction I’d like to take this site…

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