Archived posts, November 2003
Mozilla Branding
A lot of web developers and designers find Mozilla to be the overall best web browser available. Mozilla has top…
Bad content will ruin your site
After reading D Keith Robinson’s Content Management - A Process, Not a Technology and then the article he links to,…
Accessible != Boring
For some reason a common belief is that an accessible web site has to be “boring” and that it has…
Usability comic strip
In the mood for some comic strip reading? Check out OK/Cancel. Updated weekly, this comic strip brings up usability issues…
ReUSEIT entries on display
The deadline for the ReUSEIT competition was last week, on October 31. The list of submissions is up. 51 submissions…
Things to read
I’ve come across some recent articles that are worth reading. A List Apart 162 contains three articles. In A Fairy,…
Multiple versions of IE/Win
This is already being linked to by just about everybody, but I might as well do it too: a way…
Ten Most Violated Homepage Design Guidelines
In his November 10 Alertbox Jakob Nielsen lists what he considers the ten most violated homepage design guidelines. (That’s homepage,…
Flexible vs fixed
There’s been some talk about whether fixed or flexible width is best for web sites at Simon Willison’s Weblog and…
ReUSEIT winners announced
The winners of the ReUSEIT contest have been announced. Incidentally, the top three entries are the ones I liked best…
CSS Vault
The CSS Vault, created by Paul Scrivens (Whitespace, 9rules), contains a gallery of good looking CSS based sites and a…
Mozilla.org redesign launched
The redesigned Mozilla.org website is now live. The new design is clean and simple, with much less clutter. Overall, the…
A List Apart #163
Issue 163 of A List Apart contains two articles. How to Save Web Accessibility from Itself is a long article…
Really advanced CSS
There is much more to CSS than just styling borders and text. Unfortunately much of the really exciting stuff is…
CSS Best Practices
Something that I haven’t really seen anywhere is a collection of best practices for writing CSS. There most probably will…
WaSP interviews Dan Cederholm
There’s an inspiring interview with Dan Cederholm at The Web Standards Project. In the interview, Dave Shea from the WaSP…
The difficulties of learning CSS
Today there was a post to the css-discuss mailing list from someone who needed to vent his frustration with CSS….
Margin collapsing explored
Floats and collapsing margins are two CSS concepts that can be very hard to get a grip on. Anyone who…
ASP.NET and Web Standards
Back in June, I mentioned the poor standards support in Microsoft’s .Net. It looks like that will change. If what…
Font sizing trouble
It’s pretty well known that when specifying font sizes, it’s good to use a relative unit like em or percent,…
Unusable Web
In Unusable Web Keith Robinson tells us about his usability experience as a web user. He makes a whole lot…
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