We first wrote about form validation usability, or lack thereof, six years ago in our report titled 2004 Top 10 Website Usability Mistakes and How to Correct Them. While much about website design and usability has improved in the past six years, the problem is still prevalent throughout the internet today, but the solutions that we recommended six years ago are still valid today. [More]
Mar 29, 2010 • by Jason Sherrill
Recently, I was asked by one of our credit union clients to come up with a way to make one set of input fields required if a particular radio button was checked and another set of input fields if the other radio button was checked. That would be just a simple JavaScript form check, however we also wanted to use CSS to visually let the user know that the field had just become required by making the text bold as well as adding a red asterisk (*) to the beginning. [More]
Mar 23, 2010 • by Donovan Myers
Learn how to dynamically change CSS styles on your website using our CSS Style Switcher. [More]
Mar 18, 2010 • by Donovan Myers
If you've worked with us on a web development or SEO project, then you've undoubtedly heard us preach the benefits of code optimization. Not only does lightweight, well-optimized code reduce development, troubleshooting and on-going maintenance costs, but front-end code optimization can improve user experience as well by, among other things, reducing page load times. [More]
Mar 3, 2010 • by Jason Sherrill
Reading about the recent $6,000,000.00 settlement between Target Corporation, owners of Target.com retail e-commerce site, and the National Federation for the Blind (NFB) over the lack of website accessibility at Target.com for disabled people reminded me of an important topic that the banking industry seems to have largely missed. The Target settlement has stirred some high profile players like Amazon.com and RadioShack.com to consider their own website’s accessibility, both to stave off lawsuits and to capitalize on the lucrative revenue potential this 50 million1 people strong group of customers represents. [More]
Feb 4, 2009 • by Jason Sherrill
