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October 26, 2005
Why do you cling to IE5/Mac?
“Today, it would seem, all the users of Internet Explorer 5 on a Mac have conspired to get together to piss me off.”
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October 13, 2005
“The demise of CSS hacks and broken pages”
Um, Internet Explorer v7 isn’t the demise of broken pages, it will create them ... because for years we’ve had to use hacks to get earlier versions of IE to play nice, and now they will “break” pages in IE7.
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September 16, 2005
Urchin dead in the water?
“I know myself and three others whose decision to purchase Mint was directly influenced by Urchin’s neglect.” Amazing. A company too busy to take money from 5,000 customers (I’ve e-mailed them twice ... they’re a black hole). And it will
soon be too late.
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September 14, 2005
Embrace your bottom!
“The bottom of a page is the kiss at the end of the date - and we’re making sites that end without even a handshake”
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September 06, 2005
TextDrive : Back Open for Business
TextDrive is again taking new clients, has a new VC offer, and “a substantial percentage of each sale will go directly to independent aid organisations working in the horrifying aftermath of Katrina” ... $12,350 in the past 32 hours
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August 23, 2005
A List Apart 4.0
Now run with Ruby on Rails, hosted by
TextDrive ... the porch where all the big dogs hang out
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August 11, 2005
Key Website Research Highlights Gender Bias
“A first-of-its-kind study conducted by experts at the University of Glamorgan has proved that men and women really are poles apart when it comes to what catches their eye on the internet.”
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June 01, 2005
One Year Ago Today:
TextDrive, or How To Raise $40,000 In 4 Days
It surpassed all expectations within months, and after 1 year there are
4000+ urls being served. It’s simply the finest web host in existence, wrapped in a
big community of talented people.
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May 26, 2005
TextSnippets
A version of
this, with code snippets from the brain trust at
TextDrive
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May 20, 2005
Anisa International, Inc., Cosmetic Brushes
Not the usual link, this is just me passing some Google Juice on to a client’s site.
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May 14, 2005
Myths of the Self-Taught Designer: The First Conversation between Ego and the Devil
“Desire, devotion, performance, production: look to the worker and to the work, not to the credentials on the door, for evidence of seriousness.”
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May 11, 2005
Reasonable expectations on a $12 web hosting plan
“You should have your shit together before pushing it to TextDrive. Develop on your local machine, push to TextDrive when it works.” Or pay more $$$’s for a dedicated server where you don’t impact others, and they don’t impact you.
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May 07, 2005
Google’s Web Accelerator is the new net SUV
“it gives some sense of comfort to its users at the expense of others’ resources” ... a good collection of resources and links on this hot topic among web/application authors
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April 15, 2005
evhead: Running your company on web apps
An interesting summary from Ev, in which he also pimps TextDrive
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January 30, 2005
An introduction to mod_security
If your web host has it, you’ll love it. POST_PAYLOAD kicks serious butt against comment spam
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January 22, 2005
css Zen Garden: “Geocities 1996”
“validity and accessibility by no means guarantee a good page” ... but it can still be damn funny. If you weren’t surfing the web in 1996, it may just hurt your eyes
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January 13, 2005
Introducing the Google Mini
It’s not a joke. And, what a coincidence, it’s $4995! It’s not exactly a mass market device, but still a lot of bang for buck
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Severe Tire Damage
A blast from the past, a reminder of old flamewars, and just how primitive this medium was not so very long ago
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January 12, 2005
The Folly Of Content Management
“Do we really need to wear those goat-leggings and should we really be worshipping Google?”
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December 13, 2004
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November 30, 2004
del.icio.us/photodude
Not as kinky as it sounds, it’s me surrendering to the del.icio.us trend. You’ll find it boring. The best links will still be here
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November 25, 2004
Textpattern Resources
A well done new site for Textpattern plug-ins, templates, tips, and tutorials
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November 04, 2004
TextDrive Forum: Using mod_security to block comments based on keyword
“However, how many hosts have mod_security installed? That’s right, One. TextDrive.”
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October 29, 2004
The ones that didn’t quite make it
Jon’s self-rejected site designs are better than 98% of the designs you see on the web
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October 21, 2004
If Architects Had To Work Like Web Designers
“PS: My wife has just told me that she disagrees with many of the instructions I’ve given you in this letter. As architect, it is your responsibility to resolve these differences”
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October 06, 2004
37signals: An Introduction to Using Patterns in Web Design
Designers who come from a print background especially need to read this
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September 30, 2004
TextDrive adds new web hosting plans, and now offers dedicated servers
I endorse them 1000%, and get no referral fees, kickbacks, or other benefit from telling you how how insanely great they are
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September 14, 2004
Managing static pages with Textpattern
Another fine TXP tutorial from the ZemMaster
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September 12, 2004
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September 08, 2004
Lorem Ipsum, Thundercat style
“Hong Kong Phooey, number one super guy!”
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September 07, 2004
100 straight days of uptime from textdrive.com
I cannot convey how good Textdrive is, it’s the way web hosting ought to be, but never was before
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September 04, 2004
Programming Ruby, the 2nd Edition goes on sale Oct. 3, and
the First Edition is online
If I’m going to dive into programming, I think this is my language of choice
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August 31, 2004
Photo: When Nerds Protest The RNC.
Only 5% of viewers may get it, but that’s a darn funny protest sign
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August 11, 2004
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July 22, 2004
Online .htAccess Generator
A great idea that should have been done long ago
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Project planning and setting priorities
A good method to quantify a process that is often too subjective
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July 16, 2004
A nice collection of links on creating the popular “Weatherworn” look in Photoshop
Everything old is new again ... or it’s new, and we’ll make it look old, so it can be new again.
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July 15, 2004
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July 13, 2004
Smarter Image Hotlinking Prevention
Using mod_rewrite and PHP to block hotlinking, yet allow image linking
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Standard Browser Behavior is Important
“it is very important to make sure common functionality still works”
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XHTML Validation via RSS
“I’ve made a widget to create a XHTML Validation Results RSS feed from any page”
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July 07, 2004
Blogs By Their Covers
A showcase of cool design
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June 20, 2004
Stylish, accessible forms
My comments form could still use some work
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June 15, 2004
Conversion from Pantone to RGB and Hex HTML
Wow, this is so valuable I’m going to save it to my hard drive, in case it goes away
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May 31, 2004
Seven tricks that Web users don’t know
“I’d take it as a sign that God doesn’t want me to buy this”
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May 28, 2004
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May 27, 2004
mezzoblue : Comment Highlighting
An interesting experiment in ‘marking up’ comments
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May 20, 2004
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May 07, 2004
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May 01, 2004
A List Apart: Creating CSS Boxes with Rounded “Mountaintop” Corners
I like this technique better than previous attempts to do the same thing. And, people, drop shadows are *so* passe.
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April 30, 2004
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April 27, 2004
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April 26, 2004
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April 08, 2004
How to Stop Hotlinking and Bandwidth Theft with .htaccess
” You can stop servers from hotlinking your site’s files by editing the .htaccess file in your site’s root directory”
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March 18, 2004
Jeffrey Veen: I don’t care about accessibility.
“when Web design is practiced as a craft, and not a consolation, accessibility comes for free.”
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“An open letter to Jakob Nielsen” ... Ouch
“I would dare say you are doing far more harm than you are doing good, and I ask that you cease this behavior”
