Posts under ‘Webmaster Jam’

It’s All About The User - find the sweet spot
Avoid Solutioneering - identifying problems before solutions, remind business that they need to have goals
Form Always Follows Function - always think of function first
Allow for Failure
Do Not Imitate, Innovate
Do Not Get In The User’s Way - content is critical
95% of web users do not read 80% [...]

We need interoperability between different front-end developers, programmers, designers, web app developers, etc. So how do we go about doing this? The answer is web standards in CSS, HTML, and JavaScript. There is no need to master a variety of tools. Just know and understand enough so that if you need to code in a [...]

Nothing but a list of items here, along with some websites and books that could be useful.
Findability
Web standards + great content = findability
Standards

Semantic markup
Accessibility
Progressively Enhancing
Micro formats

Semantic Markup

Have image background with text -999 px indent
Leahy/Langridge Method

Keyword Placement

<title> tag
<strong> & <em>
Stylesheet filename
naturally in your content, keyword density should be less than 7%
link labels
alt & title attributes
URL
logo file [...]