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Category Archives: annoying things
Improve your pagination’s usability
February 15, 2009 – 2:04 am
In short: pad your a elements liberally
IE6 CSS hacks with Wordpress.com
February 12, 2009 – 10:08 pm
A trick for tweaking the CSS of your Wordpress.com blog for IE6.
Thank god Rogers is continuing to innovate
January 22, 2009 – 7:14 pm
Apparently for Rogers, innovation means “making a few TV shows and movie previews available for free, and claiming that our Internet is the fastest in Canada without providing any support for the claim, and raising a bunch of our prices.” Three cheers for monopolies!
Scam ads on Facebook
January 21, 2009 – 8:00 am
Perhaps I’m the only one to whom this would be unexpected, but I was surprised to notice blatant scam ads on Facebook today. Maybe they’re not a recent addition but I just noticed them today for the first time. I would have thought such things wouldn’t get clearance from Facebook’s marketing department.
Who knows how useful [...]
The #1 reason not to use Joomla
November 15, 2008 – 11:16 pm
The most annoying issue with Joomla!, despite the admirable efforts of many people involved with the project, is its tendancy to output crappy HTML. Even still, at least one of the default themes uses tables for layout, and last time I checked the RSS feeds that it spat out wouldn’t validate.
But the biggest problem is [...]
Fido.ca’s usability sin
September 19, 2008 – 9:17 am
There are few things that universally qualify as web design FAILs. The esteemed Jakob Nielsen has a list of Top-10 Web Design Mistakes from 1999 which, in web years, is a long time. Long enough that you think people would have learned.
Arguably, most of the ten mistakes he lists are not so hard and dry. [...]
Also posted in things about which I am not ambivalent, web and tech
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Tagged fail, ixd, ux, web design
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Ampersand validation issues with Joomla
September 17, 2008 – 10:55 pm
Joomla! is, in many ways, a great CMS. One of its shortcomings, however, is that it has been slow to adopt web standards, which frequently manifests itself in annoying validation issues with generated XHTML and XML feeds. These issues are usually fairly easily overcome, but it would be nice if you didn’t have to worry [...]
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Tagged accessibility, joomla, validation, web standards, xhtml
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