A Dragon in Sheep’s Clothing

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Firefox 3 interface nitpick

August 27th, 2008 · No Comments

Upgraded to Firefox 3 yesterday. Only one complaint: to get to your recently visited sites, there is only one drop-down next to the Forward button to access them all.
It makes more intuitive sense to me the way IE has it arranged, a drop-down by the Back button for your browsing history and another drop-down [...]

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Tags: Design · Internet

Poor webpage design

July 31st, 2008 · No Comments

This page, www.hothomesofutah.com/video-archive.html, loads over 1,000 images (when I visited it in IE). Nearly all are the SAME four icons.
It seems they’re trying to use a CSS trick to make images appear without coding the image in HTML. The icon to view a video and the icon to download a video are displayed with [...]

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Tags: Design · HTML and CSS · Internet

Why I don’t like kuler

July 30th, 2008 · No Comments

Since I can’t access colourlovers.com from work, I tried kuler.adobe.com today. You can navigate to the Newest, Most Popular, and Highest Rated “themes,” or let the site bring one up at Random. You can limit it to themes created in the last 7 days, 30 days, or infinity. Above the navigation is a search box. [...]

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Tags: Design · Internet

More annoying than ‘click here’

July 28th, 2008 · No Comments

Many a web designer has ranted or at least grumbled in irritation at folks who continue to use “click here” in order to link to another website. I’ll let that debate continue in other forums.
But I’ve found something even more annoying. Worse than “click here.” It’s called… “click below.” (shudder)
For some odd reason, these [...]

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Tags: Design · Internet · Rants

Dilbert archive anyone?

June 26th, 2008 · No Comments

Like antibogon, I wish there was an online text-searchable Dilbert archive — let me rephrase, a free online text-searchable Dilbert archive. At the moment I wish I could find a 3-panel strip where Alice has her annual review. Unfortunately, Google text and images searches have been unsuccessful, and I really don’t relish going through [...]

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Tags: Everything Else · Internet