Roger Johansson’s post from 2005 is still as true today as it was then: A web professional can never stop learning. Here it’s 2007 and we’re still dealing with designs that look best in photoshop, and my personal pet peeve – images for text headers (is there anything less useful?). Web professionals who refuse to […]
Dealing with Internet Explorer is an unsavory part of developing web sites. You can’t ignore it, and you want your sites design to look half decent on it with about half the effort that requires. Last time I tried to install IE6 to run under WINE, I completely failed. Today, I stumbled on these instructions
Firefox 2 comes out tomorrow (Tuesday) and IE7 is slower rendering some pages, particularly if they use AJAX, than Firefox.
On an email list I lurk on, someone asked if there was any way to prevent PDFs on their website from being indexed by crawlers, such as Googlebot, MSNBot, and their cousins. A helpful reply pointed tehm to Jakob Nielsen sidebar on Preventing Search Engines from Spidering PDF Files. Nielsen suggesst using your robots.txt file
I’m pleased to announce a cool mapping application I hacked together this weekend which lets you see on a map where each National Team’s player’s clubs are located. At the moment, I’ve only included England, Spain, the United States, and Mexico but will be adding more teams as the World Cup approaches. Some things you
Jakob Nielsen way back in 1999. and again in 2005 Opening up new browser windows is like a vacuum cleaner sales person who starts a visit by emptying an ash tray on the customer’s carpet. Don’t pollute my screen with any more windows, thanks (particularly since current operating systems have miserable window management). If I
Wonderful post and a great tile, HITS – How idiots track success: For those of you who have been around the web for more than a year or two, you have no excuse for continuing to equate success to number of HITS. Stop embarrassing yourself. If you really are new to the web or intranet
This is a great read on the history and role of FastCGI given the rise and popularity of “CGI Frameworks”, as the author calls them, like Rails, Django, and Zope. One of those rare entries where I learn a lot from each paragraph. Why does this matter? Because these are large frameworks written in interpreted
I know I’m a bit late to the game, but some of you may not know that Mozilla Firefox 1.5, was released last week. If you are still using Internet Explorer on your Windows machine, you should install and start using Firefox because its more secure, faster, and extendable. This Introduction to Firefox is a