I often see blogs ‘proudly’ displaying their archives by month on their sidebar and am drawn to wonder – why bother? Does anyone ever click on these links to see what someone wrote 10, 11 or 12 months ago? I know I don’t.
Test Your Web Site For Speed, Accessibility and More For Free
I recently took advantage of the free web site testing service offered by “Independent Testers”:http://www.independent-testers.org/. I have to admit that I was skeptical at first but was quite impressed with their report.
Create Online Graphs With Flash
One of our sites has a page of medical treatment statistics. I was never that enthused about how it looked visually – a bunch of tables doesn’t exactly grab your attention – and so I decided to see what I could do in the way of adding some graphs to make the data easier to grasp. Read More
Goodbye Blockbuster. Hello Netflix (Again)
Last night I cancelled my Blockbuster Online account and returned to the Netflix fold. It just goes to show that it doesn’t always come down to price when it comes to deciding between competing services and that good design really does make a difference.
Tips and Tricks for Organizing Complex CSS
Garrett Dimon has written a good article, Architecting CSS for Digital Web Magazine which is well worth a read. Two points he made particularly struck home with me.
Optimize Your CSS by Combining Classes
This is one of the more useful CSS techniques I’ve learned, and seeing as I picked it up somewhat later than I would have liked, I’m sure there are others who are not simplifying their CSS by breaking it up in this way.
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iTunes 4.9: Podcasting Software for the Masses
Thanks to Apple and iTunes 4.9 I’ve finally got the whole podcasting thing. As I was cycling to work this morning listening to a podcast of one of my favorite shows – NPR’s “On The Media” – it dawned on me at last what a cool technology podcasting is. Read More
Please Excuse The Dust
I finally did it. I finally let go of the past and implemented a new site design. Goodbye tables and a bad case of class-itis – hello, nice, clean, well-structured XHTML. Mmmm.
Interior Painting Tips
I just finished painting our bedroom. We were going to pay a professional to do it, but then decided that we’d save the $400 and do it ourselves.
And you know, it wasn’t too much of a chore; mainly because of these painting tips that I picked from a friend who’s in the business.