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- A New Look for the Blog • December 18, 2006
You may notice that something looks a different on this website today. It’s a new theme for the blog that I’ve been tinkering with for the past couple months. So after much fiddling around in Photoshop, Dreamweaver, and WordPress, I’m ready to debut it to the world (though I might decide to revert back to [...]
- coComment Does Web 2.0 Right • September 14, 2006
Despite last week's rant about too much web 2.0 hype, I've made one discovery recently that's made my life a lot easier. It's called coComment. coComment keeps track of all the comments you make on blogs throughout the web so you don't have to go Googling for them yourself.
- Why Does MySpace Suck So Badly? • August 7, 2006
In an effort to spread the word about my book "Infoquake," I've been experimenting with MySpace. MySpace is an abomination. Nothing works. The things that do work are poorly designed and shoddily implemented.
- Web Hosting Companies That Suck • May 18, 2006
Web hosting companies have a reputation for service that ranks right up there with the cable and phone companies. In other words, execrable. This is one case where the reputation is in line with reality. Web hosting companies, on the whole, suck. One can feel some sympathy for the people running a web hosting business; [...]
- The Joy of Strict XHTML • April 27, 2006
I've recently discovered something else the Mozilla Firefox browser can do that Microsoft's Internet Explorer can't: Firefox can accept documents using the "application/xhtml+xml" header. This just might change the world.
- Miscellaneous Web Design Sins • February 9, 2006
Chances are, if you’ve put together a website, you’ve committed some (or all) of these venal sins. Or your clients have made you commit them. Hyperlinking the words “click here.” People generally don’t read websites in the way they read a book or a magazine; they skim. And when you hyperlink contentless words like click [...]
- The Web Is Imperfect • December 28, 2005
The Web is making slow progress in separating content from presentation.
- The Importance of Web Conventions • December 6, 2005
I’m looking forward to seeing the galleys for my novel sometime in the next few months. Pyr has decided to implement a lot of special features in the book design. Page numbers won’t be in the top or bottom margin as you might expect, but right in the middle of the text. And since readers [...]
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