Thursday I Shall Be Bulletproof
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Thursday, I’ll be spending the day learning how to be bulletproof from the bulletproof master himself, Dan Cederholm. I met Dan and attended a short session with him at WebVisions in July, but this is an ALL DAY session put on by Carson Systems. For those that don’t know what the heck I’m talking about, Bulletproof Web Design is the title of one of Dan’s books. Bulletproof web design is the philosophy of creating flexible designs that survive in worst case scenarios. It essentially covers three areas in which you can be bulletproof:
- Content: Flexible at different text sizes and with different amounts of content.
- Editing: Content changes and maintenance must be simple.
- Environment: The design must survive different devices (any browser, handheld device, cell phone) and scenarios (images off, printing instead of viewing on screen, no javascript/CSS, etc.)
There are best practice and then there’s bulletproof. It takes things to a whole new level.