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Video: What it’s Really Like to be a Web Designer

October 30, 2006August 11, 2016 Christian Watson 5 Comments

Here’s an entertaining ad that pokes fun at us creative types. But it’s the web designer segment (0:44) that most entertains.

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Has Blog Commenting Been Reinvented?

October 21, 2006August 7, 2016 Christian Watson 6 Comments

I just came across a post by Jack Slocum in which he describes how he built a whole new comments system using the Yahoo! UI.

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Fly Out Menus: Can They Drop Up as Well as Drop Down?

October 18, 2006September 21, 2020 Christian Watson 2 Comments

I’m a regular user of the Weather Channel’s web site. However, other than plugging in my zip code and checking out the current and extended forecast, I’ve never really looked at the rest of the site.

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CSS Rounded Corners ‘Roundup’

October 11, 2006January 15, 2021 Christian Watson 67 Comments

This collection of techniques to create boxes with rounded corners using CSS has become quite popular. The problem now is there are so many choices it’s hard to know which one to choose.

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Web-Based Group Chat is Not Just For Remote Teams

September 29, 2006August 11, 2016 Christian Watson 4 Comments

The team I work in is small (4 people) and we all work within 20 feet of each other. So, when When Tom Watson suggested that we start using Campfire for internal communication I was skeptical.

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Web Site Visitors Don’t Change Text Size

September 27, 2006January 2, 2022 Christian Watson 6 Comments

Click Density recently posted the results of a survey of browser text size settings across the 1,500 sites they currently track.

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Crazy Egg Review: A New Way to Do Web Analytics

September 25, 2006August 14, 2016 Christian Watson 9 Comments

I’ve been using Crazy Egg — a tool for tracking where your visitors click on a page — for a couple of weeks now, and I am very impressed by it. Read More

Looking for an Entry-Level Web Developer

September 20, 2006September 16, 2020 Christian Watson 4 Comments

Once again I am looking to fill an open position on the Seattle Children’s Hospital web team. We’re looking for an entry-level web developer/designer.

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New Brown University Home Page: Breaking Too Many Rules?

September 18, 2006September 18, 2006 Christian Watson 4 Comments

The new “Brown University”:http://www.brown.edu/ home page has been making a bit of a buzz recently (well, Jared Spool and friends have been “talking about it”:http://www.uie.com/brainsparks/tag/podcasts/spoolcast/ at least).

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Do You Ever Subscribe to Comments?

September 12, 2006September 20, 2020 Christian Watson 8 Comments

Recently I removed the ability to subscribe to comments from this site. I’d been testing out MT Notifier for a while, but although it’s a great plugin it had started to cause me to receive a huge amount of spam.

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