Entries Tagged 'XHTML' ↓

Looks like Google has quietly updated Analytics with more AJAX, resembles stuff from the Yahoo toolkit, but I don’t know or care which toolkit they’re using. It’s just kind of a shame they’re adding all that but there is still no way to remove an “Account” from the Account. The redundancy of having accounts named after the first site entered as an account all under the umbrella of the GMAIL login is pretty ass backwards anyway. It’s even more of a shame that the interface has become less intuitive and is very beta…

Here are a couple of interesting wordpress themes that resemble
unix/linux command line
and
Comodore 64
of course these are done in PHP but I’d like to see these done in Ruby or Rails and perhaps one that looks like irb. Oh wait, _why has already half done that…

Some very unfortunate people are still visiting this site with Internet Explorer 6. I know some of them have no choice if they’re at work on a PC they can’t install software on. But others, change your life! Stop wearing broken glasses and see the internet the way it really looks!

eRuby means embedded ruby; embedded in xhtml, that is. The result is often a file with the .rhtml extension, Continue reading →

Data formats are important. Choosing how to structure data is the first thing one might do with it. Deciding how to present information is equally important. Web sites need to stop using PDF and Word documents as the ONLY option for available information. It’s Continue reading →

OK. You want to make web sites. If you’re worth your salt, you know typography on the web is impossible to control but possible to influence. Sizes are pretty much by suggestion only. As are all typographic factors. But the biggest question of all is Continue reading →

The too-often-seen phrase “xhtml compliant” means nothing. Absolutely, 100%, without a doubt, it holds no useful meaning. Continue reading →

DreamHost Site of the Month contest for DreamHost customers is funny. Many of those people take it way too seriously. Half of them are design school students who’ve fallen in love with Flash or video or those who are trying to make a web site look like a print production. The vast majority of comments are either reactions to recieved comments or simply expect everything to look like their idea of a good design. Unfortunately, most of these cats make mediocre, average designers.
As always, content is king. Less is more (read that as less design is more focused on the content, not on the thin-skinned designer’s ego)
A well-polished turd is still just a turd…

… and right now this one is starting to shine like Yul Brynner without his cowboy hat.

Lately, many sites are talking about and mostly decrying the use of SNAP to create obnoxious popup graphics over every link on a web page. Well, unfortunately, lately many of the same sites are also implementing these damned things.

Now you can send an e-mail to: erik@snap.com
The address of one Erik Wingren, Snap UX Research jackass.
He listed his e-mail address on Macworld’s forums as:
erik[at]snap[dot]com
As if that barely obfuscated form could stop spam from overloading such a stupidly short and simple e-mail address! Please, spam the hell out of him and snap.com !!

Welcome to the next generation of malware, the DOM script. Oh, wait… that’s already happened before! The new second coming of JavaScript (as DOM Scripting) has simply brought it back. Yay. No JavaScript, please. No Flash, please. I don’t read moving books, I don’t need moving web pages either.

This is turning out to be interesting. There are a lot of things to like about both TextMate and SubEthaEdit. But there are a lot of things to grumble about as well. We’ll see which one takes the crown. I’ve already set my good friend TextWrangler aside for TextMate… Continue reading →