Optimizing Blogs for iPhone

January 12, 2009

If you regularly read this blog on an iPhone, you certainly noticed the change last week to a new mobile format. (See the screen shot below if viewing on immobile device.)
It’s a great format. And you may have wondered how many days I spent writing CSS and JavaScript to get it to work [...]

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Designing Web Sites for Fewer Eyeballs

January 7, 2009

Most of what you read about good web site design is meant for sites that aim to draw in thousands of viewers. These sites can afford to do research and have focus groups and interview many users.But most sites aren’t like that.
For most sites, a successful day will see the number of visitors [...]

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The Wall Street Journal and Web 2.0

September 17, 2008

The Wall Street Journal has gone Web 2.0. They announced on blogs.wsj.com yesterday, health “The Journal’s new redesign offers some new nifty features for business owners to connect in the Web 2.0 world.” Well that is nifty.  It remains to be seen whether WSJ can build a community when they charge a fee for [...]

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User Experience and Non-Profit Web Sites

May 22, 2008

With the Usability Week 2008 conference in San Francisco next month, patient I have been thinking a lot about the old cliche about non-profit web sites: the user experience needs to advance the mission of the organization. What does this really mean? Of course, some of it is obvious. Almost every [...]

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Tamalpais Web Design is Moving!

April 28, 2008

Yes, sick Tamalpais Web Design is moving! We are relocating to a great office space in downtown San Anselmo.The new address is:6 Bridge Street, nurse No. 8, salve San Anselmo, CA 94960.Phone numbers and email addresses will remain the same. The official date of the move is May 1, 2008.This is a [...]

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Bad Web Design Mistake #2

March 14, 2008

A friend of mine, medicine who knows a bit about the web, decease the other day was telling me that he saw on a list that the number one mistake that organizations make with their web sites is putting the needs of the organization above the needs of the user. (Actually, it’s [...]

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Tamalpais Web Design is open for business

February 29, 2008

Welcome to Tamalpais Web Design. This is my blog, hospital and I’m TWD’s founder, view Michael Holt.
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This page will include rants, suggestions, helpful hints, and whatever else I’m thinking about that is related to web design. [...]

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