Archives for October 2006
Seven After Five Years
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 was released in August 2001. This week, one of the biggest and most damaging private monopolies in human history relented, and fully five years after, we now have their MSIE 7. I installed it today. Coincidentally, a couple of days before I heard that the 7 was out, I happend to [...]
Tag Cloudy
I’ve become a bit of a tag cloud hawk recently, looking for examples of their use and what I think is abuse, or just plain old misunderstanding. My definition of a useful tag cloud is something that allows you to get a feel for the “mood” of the information tagged on a site. On the [...]
Online Payment Form Patterns
When designing an e-commerce site, it’s hard to avoid the payment form. For an industry barely a decade old, the payment page has a powerful mystique – associated as it is with high technology like i-frames, fraud, mysterious loss of life savings, and alien invasion. I was thinking about this last week after reviewing some [...]
‘It’s just all kinds of filth’
He’s gone for the irony hat trick…! Boingboing reports on this article is about a man who has asked his daughter’s school to take Fahrenheit 451 off the curriculum because of its use of “bad language” and (for extra irony points) smoking, amongst other things. The incident is wonderful not least for the fact that [...]
World Usability Day, Cheap Shot
I’d hate to be responsible for a website like World Usability Day, but since I’m not – I can’t resist a cheap shot.
Pink for Breast Cancer Awareness Month
Webtorque has gone Pink for National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. I know it’s American, but breasts know no frontiers.
