I am getting fed up of my own blog 
I need more design elements. But I don’t have the time. I want it too look prettier, but content is King and I know looks make it better sometimes but nowhere near as much as good content!! I want to get rid of the grey and have something fancy. I might too, LOL, too hard on myself as always, too critical of my own site. I want my site to load in less than 6 seconds on a 56KB dial-up line, this one does!! Try it but hey making an arty-farty site will look sauve but will it reach out to that many people? NO. Again content is king. I want to, like the rest of the world design my entire blog in Illustrator and then redev it. But that would be so futile an excercise… I do care about people on slow lines. And I respect their choice for not moving on to broadband — whatever the reason.
Monthly Archive for November, 2004
If you really, really, really want people to see your great web design, you’re flattering yourself; content is king. If you didn’t believe that the content is the important part of your site, you wouldn’t be providing an RSS feed. Bite the bullet and give us full text.
John has it right. People that dont give full RSS mosly dont believe ‘content is king’ or don’t get off their lazy ass to implement it, or just don’t care enough! Some of the best usability and Accessibility gurus in the Industry have this backwards! I am not surprised.
For those that have noticed my weblog here doesn’t have a link ’skip to content’ instead it says ‘skip to main content‘. A fairly simplistic change one may say. But there is more to this than meets they eye! Blind users use Assistive technology to read pages on the internet. Tools like JAWS would read ‘Skip to Content’ with an accent on the second syllable. That would defeat the reason on having a skip link in the first place. The alternative to this is ‘Skip to Main Content’
Using ‘Skip to Main Content’ at the top of your pages ensures JAWS doesn’t get confussed about the world ‘content’ nor will it read it with the accent.