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Friday Grab Bag of Links

August 13, 2004August 14, 2016 Christian Watson

Interactive Narratives

A great showcase of the best in informational rich media. What’s nice about the sites they present is that they actually use rich media to convey information or tell a story, rather than just to be flashy as is so often the case. Read More

Microsoft Recommends Turning Off Javascript For Security Reasons

August 10, 2004January 2, 2022 Christian Watson 3 Comments

A recent article in PCWorld magazine caught my attention by pronouncing that Microsoft recommended ‘crippling IE to protect your PC’ by turning off scripting functionality such as Javascript. Read More

Title and Alt Attributes Revisited: When To Use With Images?

August 4, 2004August 19, 2016 Christian Watson 3 Comments

Keith’s recent post on the use of title attributes and the subsequent discussion that followed was helpful in clearing up how they, and alt attributes, should be appropriately used. Read More

Writing Good Link Text

August 3, 2004August 19, 2016 Christian Watson 2 Comments

Despite my difficulties in navigating the W3C QA site (see previous post) it was interesting to read their article about good writing conventions for links. Read More

Why is the W3C Web Site So Hard To Use?

July 30, 2004August 6, 2016 Christian Watson

I recently learned that the W3C has a quality assurance web site. The reason I learned this was because I followed a link to a W3C article about writing links.

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Wanted: Web Designers

July 25, 2004September 16, 2020 Christian Watson 1 Comment

Like Eris, I get way more inquiries than I can handle, even after I added some general pricing info on my site to weed out potential customers whose budget didn’t match my fee range and people who’s inquiries really weren’t that serious. Read More

Friday Grab Bag of Links

July 23, 2004September 16, 2020 Christian Watson 3 Comments

A few things that have caught my eye lately:

Morphases.com

This flash-based online face creation and manipulation tool is amazing. Some of the UI is a little cryptic, but it’s not too difficult to work out what all the controls do. Read More

Even Michael Moore is Doing It

July 20, 2004August 14, 2016 Christian Watson

Doing what? Blogging, of course. It’s too bad he doesn’t allow comments, but I can understand why. I’m not sure he entirely gets the concept as, along with his blog, he also has “Mike’s letter” – hmmm, looks mighty like a blog to me. Read More

Being ‘Real’ on the Web

July 16, 2004July 16, 2004 Christian Watson 3 Comments

Lots has been written about the importance of writing your body copy, email newsletters, blogs, etc with personality so as to show that there are real people behind the corporate facade.

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The Importance of Proof Reading…Everything

July 16, 2004August 14, 2016 Christian Watson

It’s easy to forget that images containing text should be proof read as rigorously as regular body copy. This Target ad shows what happens when this is not done: Read More

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