All Publications
Articles, books, white papers, and presentations written or technical edited by hesketh.com.
Markup, Style, and Scripting
- Location - Location - Location: The Basics of Search Engine Optimization
- Cascading Style Sheets: Separating Content from Presentation (Italian), authors include Steven Champeon (buy it)
- Web Design on a Shoestring, by Carrie Bickner, edited by Steven Champeon (buy it)
- Progressive Enhancement and the Future of Web Design
- Inclusive Web Design for the Future, Presented March 11, 2003 as part of the South by SouthWest Interactive Festival.
Also available:- Japanese translation courtesty of Masami Tomosugi
- Spanish translation (currently offline) courtesy of Manuel Gonzalez Noriega of Simplelogica
- Web standards can save, and make you money
- The Secret Life of Markup
- Why DHTML Will Win
- Special Edition Using HTML and XHTML, by Molly Holzschlag, edited by Steven Champeon (buy it)
- Cascading Style Sheets: Separating Content from Presentation (English), authors include Steven Champeon (buy it)
- The Value of Standards for Web Design, Presented February 13, 2002 as Part of the North Carolina State University Ecommerce Learning Center seminar series
- JavaScript: Why You Don't Know More About It
- JavaScript: How Did We Get Here?
- My SXSW Swag: A State of the Web Address
- Javascript: Modifying Styles
- Working with Javascript: Introduction
- RTFM: A Guide to Online Research
- XHTML: Migrating Applications toward XML, by Simon St. Laurent, edited by Steven Champeon (buy it)
- XML: A Primer by Simon St. Laurent, edited by Steven Champeon (buy it)
- Building Dynamic HTML GUIs, by CTO Steven Champeon (buy it)
- XML: Extensible Markup Language, by Elliotte Rusty Harold, edited by Steven Champeon (buy it)
- The Veterans of a Thousand Browser Wars
- An Open Letter to Netscape
Application Development
- Why Put Your Organization on Rails?
- Go with the Flow - the Workflow, That is...Picture this -- a physician participating in a clinical study is recording a patient's vital statistics and reaction to a trial treatment. The physician picks up a pen and scribbles this information onto a paper chart, which will later be transcribed into a computer database that may or may not be connected to the organization sponsoring the study. You're probably thinking this is a scene from 1980, which would be correct -- but what you may not guess, is that it is also a scene from the 21st century!
- Is There Value in Open Source?
- Debugging Web Applications
- Finding the Right Search Engine
Professional Development
- Integrated Design: Building the New Breed of Designer & Developer, by Molly Holzschlag, edited by Steven Champeon (buy it)
- Taking Your Talent to the Web, by Jeffrey Zeldman, edited by Steven Champeon (buy it)
- Who Knows? Employees come and go, but how do you get their knowledge to stick around?, Entrepreneur Magazine, featuring CEO Heather Hesketh
Books We Find Inspirational
- How Buildings Learn by Stewart Brand
- About Face 2.0: The Essentials of Interaction Design by Alan Cooper
- Back to the User by Tammy Sachs and Gary McClain
- Designing with Web Standards by Jeffrey Zeldman
- Don't Make Me Think! A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability by Steve Krug
- The Elements of User Experience by Jesse James Garret
- The Universal Traveler by Don Koberg and Jim Bagnall
- Web Site Usability: A Designer's Guide by Jared M. Spool
- Web Design on a Shoestring, by Carrie Bickner, edited by Steven Champeon (buy it)
User Centered Design
- User Experience Professionals Unite!
- Twelve days to a positive user experience
- Make it all about the user
- User Experience as Corporate Imperative, a white paper
- Taking the Guesswork Out of Interaction Design
- Information Architecture for the World Wide Web, by Louis Rosenfeld and Peter Morville, edited by Steven Champeon (buy it)
- Sustaining Demand - the value of user-centered design, Presented March 26, 2004 in Raleigh, NC
- Lather-Rinse-Repeat: A User-Centered Design Approach
- The Year of the User
- Progressive Enhancement and the Future of Web Design
- A Business Case for User Experience Design
- The Art and Science of Web Design, by Jeffrey Veen, edited by Steven Champeon (buy it)
- Advice on Text Wrapping Email
Business Processes
- Progressive Development: Stop Postponing Joy!
- Progressive Development: The Revolution of Evolution, Presented May 26, 2006 at Webstock, Wellington NZ
- Is Your Not-For-Profit Web Focused?
- The Lowdown on Log Analysis
- So You Think You Want A CMS? Read On To Be Sure...
- The Smart Organization's Guide To Implementing Change
- Google's AdSense: Turning Clicks to Cash
- Your Company's Go-To Source: The Intranet Inside
- The Power of the Portal
- Association Management Software: Customer Relationship Management and Business Intelligence for the Not-for-Profit
- Jefferson Meets the Jetsons: The Web of Politics
- The Business of Blogs
- Psst.I see knowledge communities.Pass it on
- Eeny, Meany, Miney, Moe... Bringing Logic to CRM Selection
- We Blog: Publishing Online with Weblogs, by Meg Hourihan, Matt Haughey, and Paul Bosch, edited by Steven Champeon (buy it)
- Growing Online Community, Presented October 8, 2000 at WEB2000 in Washington, DC
- Who Knows? Employees come and go, but how do you get their knowledge to stick around?, Entrepreneur Magazine, featuring CEO Heather Hesketh
- Plug and Play Journalist
Management
- Real Life Project Management -- A Mix of Art and Science
- Thinking It Through -- Technology Planning for the Not-for-Profit
- CIO To Go: The Value of Management Outsourcing
- Willy Wonka and the Dot-Com Bubble Gum
- Lose Yourself Online: Identify Theft and the Internet
- Finding the Money Tree
- A North Carolina Winter: A Multimedia Survival Guide from hesketh.com
- Web Design on a Shoestring, by Carrie Bickner, edited by Steven Champeon (buy it)
- In Pursuit of Value: Informing Business Decisions
- When "Just Doing It" is "Just Wrong"
- Who Knows? Employees come and go, but how do you get their knowledge to stick around?, Entrepreneur Magazine, featuring CEO Heather Hesketh
- How to Choose a Web Development Firm, Presented at the Council for Entrepreneurial Development's Conference on Entrepreneurship 2000
Spam Management
- Antisocial Networking: Dealing with Online Abuse, a presentation delivered by CTO Steven Champeon at SxSW Interactive.
- Simplicity, Web Standards, and Spam, Presented May 25, 2006 at Webstock, Wellington NZ
- Why Standards Matter for Email - and other amusements, Presented May 26, 2006 at Webstock, Wellington NZ
- From Zombies to Smarthosts - the Spam War Escalates
- Something Smells Phishy...
- Bandits in the Browsers
- Making Mincemeat of Spam
- Spam, Spam, Costs, Spam, Risks, Spam, Solutions and Spam
- Save Your Site from Spambots
Systems Administration
- A Winning Argument for Linux Over Windows
- Apache: The Definitive Guide, 3/e by Ben and Peter Laurie, edited by Steven Champeon (buy it)
- Unix Power Tools, 3/e, authors include CTO Steven Champeon (buy it)
- MacOS X for Unix Geeks by Brian Jepson and Ernest Rothman, edited by Steven Champeon (buy it)
- Save Your Site from Spambots
- Building a High-Volume Newsletter Server
- Mailman Made Easy
- XSS, Trust, and Barney
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