Good website design doesn’t make me think

Don’t Make Me Think by Steve Krug was a great read when I first read it over ten years ago now and so I am delighted to find that he has written a follow up revised version since (2014). I’ll admit, a lot of what Steve talks about I think of as common sense – in fact the strapline for the book is “A common sense approach to web usability” but I am surprised at how many people, good web designers among them, don’t take a logical approach to a website layout.

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Distributed denial of service (Ddos)

A customer of mine learnt the hard way why cheap domains registration isn’t worth it and why disaster recovery plans are essential. The domain registrar who holds all of their domain names on their domain name servers went offline following a ddos attack, taking their website and email service with it. Hundreds of other business … Read more

Logo design and re-design

Which comes first, the chicken or the logo? I can’t tell you how often I have come close to the end of a web project, or even published it only to be told “we’ve decided to change our logo”.  At which point any halfway decent graphic designer will sigh heavily.  Why? Logos are a focal … Read more