Month: February 2010
The Great Windows Code Editor Hunt
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I’m a web designer/programmer so I spend a good portion of a day in a code editor (at least if it’s a good day). I’m pretty particular about what code editor I use and what features it needs so I’m on a hunt for a great code editor for Windows. My plan is to use…
Captcha Sucks But I’m Lazy So it’s Your Problem
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Hidden under the guise of making your life less troublesome by limiting spam on your site lurks a hurdle. It’s a hurdle that brings no end of frustration to users. A stabbing pain in the eye of users and what does it gain us but a few precious seconds of our days. The Issue We’ve…
Why Rails Feels like a Developers Only Playground
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I’m a designer and I work on Ruby on Rails projects or at least I’d like to. I actually competed in the Rails Rumble 09. The issue is continuing to find any work designing projects for Rails. This despite the fact that I’m told on a regular basis there is a shortage of designers working…
The Long Proposed Death of IE 6
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The proposed demise of IE 6 rings with the shouts of joy from web developers the world over, but is it truly on the horizon? While sites trying to kill IE 6 extoll all the valid reasons web designers and developers have to want the death; clients sit and look at philosophical arguments and compare…
Web Designer Magazine Comment – The Demise of Geocities
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For a second time I was asked for a comment in Web Designer Magazine. This time dealt with the recent demise of Geocities. For my part it is sad to see Geocities go in one sense. The first sites (if they could be called that) I ever built were built on Geocities. I had a…
Don’t Get Your Design’s Stuck on Language
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I’ve been designing lots of e-commerce projects lately and a theme I’ve been finding in the designs is the buttons. Specifically the implication of buttons. We’ve all seen buttons on store that say “Add to Cart” or “Purchase” or whatever but does the simple word convey enough meaning? The Thoughts I am more and more…