Ask the Sherpas

  1. Question About Getting Design Buy-in

    Answered by Dan Mall on 9 April 2013

    Egads! That’s quite the sour situation you’re in. Here are a few tips to help you turn lemons into lemonade: Sample, sample. I love it when my clients are more prepared than I am, because it…
  2. Question About Choosing the Right CMS

    Answered by Emily Lewis on 5 March 2013

    There are hundreds, if not thousands, of content management systems (CMS) and publishing tools that provide membership features. Some are out-of-the-box solutions and some must be customized per…
  3. Question About Acronyms in Body Copy

    Answered by Derek Featherstone on 19 February 2013

    Screen Reader Defaults Providing abbreviation expansions in the title attribute is “what we do,” but it does rely on the some customization of settings for some screen…
  4. Question About Frameworks, Preprocessors and Libraries

    Answered by Allison Wagner on 5 February 2013

    As great as today’s pre-processors, frameworks and libraries are, understanding the fundamentals of HTML, CSS and JS is hugely important. Using something like a CSS pre-processor, for example,…
  5. Question About Coding Resources

    Answered by Chris Casciano on 22 January 2013

    If you’re looking for more content and depth than the typical online tutorial might offer, you’re in luck! Over the last couple of years, there has been an explosion of great online instruction.…