Topic: Business

• Accessibility, Web Standards, and Authoring Tools

  by Christopher Schmitt · Issue 141 · March 22, 2002

  With the advent of more compliant web browsers, the quest for standards shifts to the tools pros use to build sites. Christopher Schmitt spoke with Adobe and Macromedia for the low-down on web standards, accessibility, and authoring tools.

• Getting Paid

  by Jeffrey Zeldman · Issue 134 · January 18, 2002

  As businesses struggle to stay in business, many are short–changing vendors or woefully delaying payment. Zeldman laments the difficulties of getting paid.

• Global Treaty Could Transform the Web

  by Dennis A. Mahoney · Issue 119 · August 17, 2001

  Mahoney is boiling mad over a proposed global treaty that would turn our worldwide web into a mishmash of regional Intranets, each attending to whatever local regulation allows.

• Down By Law

  by Carrie Bickner · Issue 104 · April 06, 2001

  A U.S. law scheduled to take effect on the 20th of this month will force libraries and schools to censor Internet access or lose their funding. If enacted, the law will restrict free speech and punish the poorest of the poor. Librarian and web developer Carrie Bickner explores the politics of censorship and the digital divide.

• MSN, Opera, and Web Standards

  by Håkon Wium Lie · Issue 127 · November 09, 2001

  Håkon Lie, the father of Style Sheets and CTO of Opera, debunks Microsoft’s claim that web standards have anything to do with the blocking of Opera and Mozilla users from MSN.com. Lie’s eye–opening commentary includes a chart analyzing all 63 top–level pages at MSN.com in terms of standards compliance.

• Patents, Royalties, and Web Standards

  by Jeffrey Zeldman · Issue 122 · October 05, 2001

  This week there is only one web story that matters. The W3C has written a patent policy that opens the door to royalty payments on web standards.

• Rolling the Start-up Dice (A Survival Guide)

  by Marlene Bruce · Issue 92 · December 10, 2000

  So you want to work for an Internet start-up company. Bruce and Moyer show you the ropes.

• The Devil His Due: What Online Porn Portends

  by Bob Jacobson · Issue 112 · June 01, 2001

  It’s a dirty job, but someone’s gotta do it: Jacobson studies “adult” sites to see what they can tell us about the future of web content. His predictions are not pretty.

• Accessibility: the Politics of Design

  by Alan Herrell · Issue 94 · January 10, 2001

  Herrell deconstructs the new U.S. accessibility regulations and their implications for web designers everywhere.

• Breaking out of the Cubicle: How a Small, Swiss Company Got its Groove On

  by Makiko Itoh · Issue 97 · February 03, 2001

  In the mid-1990s, Makiko Itoh and her partner left New York’s cubicle land for a web shop of their own in the suburbs of Zurich. Learn from her tips on running your own web agency.

• This Web Business II: Getting a Loan

  by Scott Kramer · Issue 97 · February 03, 2001

  In Part 2 of his series on running a web agency, Scott Kramer discusses the ins and outs of securing a business loan.

• Flash Access:  Unclear on the Concept

  by Joe Clark · Issue 90 · December 01, 2000

  Accessible Flash looks great on paper. But can Macromedia really pull it off? And do enough designers care? Joe Clark offers insight into Macromedia’s press release and poses questions for Macromedia to consider.

• CSS Talking Points: Selling Clients on Web Standards

  by Greg Kise · Issue 116 · July 06, 2001

  Selling your clients on standards-compliant design doesn’t have to hurt. Kise's four-point CSS Selling Plan helps the medicine go down.

• Nipping Client Silliness in the Bud

  by Robin (roblimo) Miller · Issue 116 · July 06, 2001

  Slashdot’s Robin (Roblimo) Miller could write a book about web clients’ mistakes. In fact, he’s writing it now – but he needs your help.

• The Client Did It: A WWW Whodunit

  by Robbie Shepherd · Issue 114 · July 15, 2001

  Shepherd on the fine art of telling bad clients to buzz off.

• The Road to Dystopia

  by Chris Kaminski · Issue 105 · April 13, 2001

  Now that greed, pride, and stupidity have wrecked the web economy, how’s a semi-idealistic web developer supposed to make a living? Chris Kaminski hitches a ride down the road to dystopia.

• One Boy’s Life: Surviving the Dotcom Blitz

  by Nick Finck · Issue 95 · January 19, 2001

  A boy, a job, and a floundering economy. Nick Finck tells his personal story of hirings and firings on the cusp of the dotcom crunch.

• Survivor! (How Your Peers are Coping With the Dotcom Crisis)

  by Jeffrey Zeldman · Issue 95 · January 19, 2001

  It’s ugly out there, but how bad is it, really? We asked 40 colleagues to share how they were coping (or not) with the layoffs and business failures plaguing our industry.

• This Web Business III: Selecting Professionals

  by Scott Kramer · Issue 102 · March 23, 2001

  In part Three of his series on running your own web agency, Scott Kramer shares tips on hiring the right accountants, attorneys, and other consultants and institutions.

• Time to Close the Web?

  by Alan Herrell · Issue 61 · April 28, 2000

  Focusing on presentation at the expense of content, and invasive money-making schemes at the expense of everything else, designers must take some of the blame for the trashing of the web. Herrell wonders if it’s time to call it a day and close up shop.