Insights

If you live in the southeastern part of Texas, you’re no doubt very aware of the fire that started in Bastrop and continues, almost totally uncontrolled, to burn its way across the rain-starved state. It’s a scary time for many, but the power of social media is helping us work together to preserve and recover.

Andrew posted an article on Mobile Website Design this week. In it, he talks about a designer's perspective on the mobile audience. From a development perspective, mobile website development is a breath of fresh air. As I began writing, I realized I touched on a topic of interest to me, and I hope you. I'm planning to break this up with a different piece of this mobile topic each week for several weeks.

While every web browser (Firefox, Safari, Chrome, etc.) has it’s programming peculiarities that have to be accommodated when building a website, the bane of every web developer’s existence is Internet Explorer 6. Many web design companies have stopped developing for the ten year old IE6 now that IE 9 has been released. Even Microsoft is trying to kill off IE6.

Over the past several months, I've had the opportunity to design a few mobile sites, and from a designer's perspective, they're a lot of fun. What I find engaging are the design challenges that come with optimizing a full-size website for a small screen.

I recently stumbled across a Time magazine article that lists the 25 websites we can’t live without. On this list are well-known giants like Amazon, Flickr, and Technorati. The real surprise came when I noticed the article’s date: August 3, 2006.