Kaizen in 2010: Stock Cliches, HTML5 Forms, & Web Advertising

Tim — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 17:58:29 +0000

One of the main focuses of our philosophy at Code Greene centers around the Japanese philosophy of continuous improvement known as “kaizen”. The web offers tremendous opportunities to learn from our peers, and sharing articles with each other has really helped us keep our blades sharp. Here are a few of the best articles we’ve read recently, submitted by members of our team:

Luke, Stop Using Stock Photography Clichés

I liked this article because I could really relate to the author. I am super sick of stupid stock photography. This type of stock photography has become meaningless to the user. Especially if the user has seen the same photo in other places before. As users, we are so used to seeing two business people shaking hands that we overlook it immediately, without giving it a second thought. Useless.

Mike, A Form of Madness

Form design is awesomeness, but coding them? Not always the case. Luckily, there’s good news for form coders the world over with HTML5 on the brink of greater support. This article comes from an up-and-coming book all about HTML5. The author introduces some cool new tags and attributes that we can start using right now, including: placeholder text, autofocus fields, spinboxes, sliders, date pickers, and more! Exciting stuff.

Tim, On Web Advertising

This is something I have been very curious about lately, so to find this was a refreshing way to start out the week. It was nice to get Chris’s perspective about online advertising and I know he knows about it because all his work uses it.

What have you been reading recently?

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Kaizen in 2010: Stock Cliches, HTML5 Forms, & Web Advertising