This blog has been dormant long enough, time to make it earn its bandwidth.
Lydia and I are starting a business together called webclearly. It’s all about making websites that are simple, accessible, usable, and useful.
“Simple” means sites with logical, understandable, information architecture. A place where you never say, “Where am I, how did I get here, and how do I get back?”
“Accessible” has two meanings, the first is, we pride ourselves on making sites that are understandable to people with physical difficulties, especially those who rely on screen reading software to get information. The second meaning is you won’t need any special software to view the content, you won’t see the ’best viewed in someone else’s browser,’ nonsense (although I’m not sure anyone actually says that anymore, do they?), nor will you need a monitor set to 1024 pixels for best viewing — our sites are built flexibly to appear at their best regardless of the viewing device.
“Usable” means you’ll understand immediately why the site exists — because we’ll tell you right there on the homepage. You’ll see effective, logical navigation that is repeated on every page so you’ll never get lost, and never be more than one click away from the homepage.
“Useful” is why we’re here. If you have a product or service to offer, then we’ll shout it from the homepage: “Here’s what we have to offer! Here’s how to get some!”
That’s the ad over with, the details will be in future entries.
