A List Apart recently published an article I wrote entitled Findability, the Orphan of the Web Design Industry. It’s a story of a sadly neglected little boy named Findability whose siblings―Information Architecture, Usability, Project Management, Design, and Development― all garner ample attention from folks in a web design agency while he remains unnoticed despite his essential role to the success of all projects.
I recently ran across a wonderful video on YouTube in which Tim Berners-Lee, the father of the Wold Wide Web,speaks about the idea of the Semantic Web. It’s a simple, yet elegant concept that has yet to come to fruition asBerners-Lee had originally dreamed.
To celebrate the release of my new book Building Findable Websites: Web Standards SEO and Beyond, I’m giving away an autographed copy to one lucky winner.
At SXSW last year I met Michael Nolan - senior acquisitions editor for Peachpit Press - and pitched him my idea for the book Building Findable Websites. Almost one year later the book is in print and on its way to a bookstore near you. (more…)
In preparation for An Event Apart New Orleans where I’ll be speaking about how to make websites more findable with web standards, Jeffrey Zeldman conducted a brief interview with me consisting of just one, simple question.
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