Joy Of Code - Web Design Training and Consulting

Bud Kraus Talking Web Design

What happens when we put the user in the center of our design rather than ourselves as web designers and developers?

My 5 presentations focus on the nature of this fabulous medium - the one you're looking at - and how best to leverage it's strengths and steer clear of its weaknesses.

As a promoter and practitioner of web design standards I have taken my message to:

  • Jupiter Communications
  • Girl Scouts of America - Leadership Conference
  • South Jersey Regional Library Cooperative
  • Baruch College - Computer Center For The Visually Impaired
  • Central Jersey Regional Library Cooperative
  • New York Public Library
  • New York University
  • HighEdWeb
  • Graphic Artists Guild - New York Chapter
  • School Of Library And Information Science - Pratt Institute
  • INFOLINK

Recent Talks

  • How To Fix Your Web Site: A Seven Step Recovery Program
    • Where: INFOLINK - Clark, NJ
    • Date: April 10, 2008
  • The Electronic Canvas: Designer Beware!!
    • Where: INFOLINK - Clark, NJ
    • Date: April 10, 2008
  • Why Bother With Web Design Standards?
    • Where: Graphic Artists Guild - New York City
    • Date: March 20, 2008

Here are my presentations

  • How To Fix Your Web Site: A Seven Step Recovery Program

    Japanese Symbol For TransformationWhen you transform the design of your bad, old site to one that embraces best practices and use of web design standards do you know how to do it? This presentation explains the process in seven steps.

  • Why Bother With Web Design Standards?

    Japanese Symbol For TransformationThe question really has become, "How Could You Not."!

    There's a reason why web sites are looking better than ever, are easier to maintain and re-design. That reason is no passing fancy.

  • The Electronic Canvas: Web Designer Beware!!

    This medium is unlike any other because it's the user - not the designer - who is in the center of the design. Miss that point and your web design will fall short of where it needs to be.

    The screen you're looking at is a canvas without a fixed size. This is like The Law Of Gravity. Denial does not make it go away.

  • Accessible Web Design: Making Web Content Work For Everyone, Everywhere

    Japanese Symbol For TransformationMost web sites need not needlessly erect barriers to content. Follow a few simple ideas and you'll make your site open to many others and better for everyone too!!

  • The Great Cascade: Just Where Are The Style Sheets In A Web Browser

    Web designers and developers think that CSS is all about the styling they bring to the canvas.

    WRONG!!

    That's only 1/3 of the ingredients which blend together to render style on a web page. Do you know the other two groups of rules that play a very important role in web page design?

Here's How To Get Me To Talk

That's not a terribly hard thing to do as it doesn't take much.

My presentations can run from 1 - 3 hours, depending on your needs. All I need is an overhead projection, connection to the net, travel expenses and honorarium and I'm ready to speak to your business or organization.

My presentations do not require a computer lab.

Email bud@joyofcode.com or call 973 235 1452 for more details.