I’m just finishing up Web work on a symposium that illustrates all that’s wrong with unplanned development: the people in charge kept coming up with new ideas after we’d started, and they kinda liked waiting until work was done on something before starting to think about it. So I (and others) would work to on […]

I can tell already that this is going to be a multi-post rant, because I’m burning up. I’m working to configure an application for our Alumni Web Community (a “portal,” if you’ll excuse the buzzword). The fine folks at BSR Advance, who are now no longer on my Christmas card list, have made a classic […]

About once a week, I get a call from someone asking me to add a hit counter. You know, those “you are visitor #2,346 to this site” messages? The answer is no.
Hit counters have many problems, as I often explain. First off, the average Web site visitor doesn’t have enough context to understand the […]

Yes, I’m afraid it’s true. I’m setting up the soapbox, and get ready for some shoutin’. Just what we all need, right? Yet another blog from yet another so-called expert — in this case, on all things Webbish.
Thing is, I work in Web space all day long, and sometimes all night too, and I […]