With the new (and hot) Apple iPhone on the market, web designers might be considering what they should do to accommodate the fast growing audience of iPhones users.

In a nutshell: probably not too much.

The iPhone web browser, is Apples’ Safari and it reads any web pages – even table-based websites! Gasp! Web standards zealots around the world are eating crow now.

Anyway …

It will come down to what kind of site you are running; I think that most websites will not be the target of iPhone users while on the go. My guess, is that it will be limited to:

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Hi,

I just released a podcast where discuss the differences between Ajax and Flash.

You can read more about it in the killersites.com Magazine.

Hi,

In this session of the Business of Web Design, I go over what you need to have in a typical web design contract.

There are important elements that you must include to avoid problems down the road, things like:

- Payment terms.
- Delivery dates.
- Project specifics: how many pages, functionality etc.

… and a whole lot more.

Check it out: Writing Web Design Contracts.

Thanks,

Stefan Mischook

www.killersites.com
www.killerphp.com

I recently got a call from someone wanting to know what I thought about various image editing programs in terms of their abilities to make buttons:

“Stef, what program do you think I should use to create buttons for my websites? One buddy tells me he likes Corel Draw and another guy is big on Adobe Fireworks. What do you use?”

My answer to this question is simple:

Web designers should not be making buttons.

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I recently got a phone call (wow, actual voice communication!) from a member of the killersites.com forum, where he was anxious to delete his account from the system because he had used a celebrities first name as his user name. Harmless, right? No, wrong!!

Apparently he was contacted by one of this celebrities minions, where this minion-of-celeb, demanded (under threat of legal action!) that the member terminate the account!

… Yes, threats from a looser celebrity because someone was using their name as a user name on a web design related forum!!

I changed the user name because I don’t want to stress out any member of our community here. But I have to tell you, this really pisses me off.

.. Or better yet, I’m a minor nerd-celebrity of sorts, maybe I should go around the Web threatening to sue people who use my first name on a message board!

Yes, it’s official, no one can use the name: Stefan

Stefan Mischook

www.killersites.com
www.killerphp.com