Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008
So, I am sitting here basking in the cool blue glow of my new-to-me iMac. In case you are wondering, I got this one, but not for that price and not exactly to those specs 
All I have to say is woo hoo! Now to put all the stuff I actually need on it…
Sunday, February 24th, 2008
And I don’t care. Officially. I’ve taken precedent (kind of) from Mike Davidson, and am purposefully leaving my site erroneous(in some eyes). Just to let everyone know, I’ll be including a link in the footer to this article. That’s right, each and every page will announce that my site doesn’t play well with others… and by “others” I mean specifically Microsoft Internet Expolorer. I hearby officially end my support for IE until some things change.
More details when I have time to finish this post.
Friday, July 27th, 2007
It is a web designer’s duty to communicate as clearly, accessibly and articulately as possible. I will admit, as the Internet has become ever-pervasive into our daily lives designers are working harder than ever to make this dissemination of information as digestible as possible, and for the most part on most “credible” sites one visits are mostly successful in this venture. It is on occasion that I happen upon something that makes me sit back and wonder what was going through the minds of the people that created what I am looking at. Case in point: go to any number of retailers online and make a purchase. When prompted to enter your credit card information, I give it a 50/50 chance that in the area concerning the expiration date, selecting the month requires going through not a list of numbers, but of the actual names of the months. I don’t understand this practice. I have never seen “August 200x” on a credit card, debit card, ATM card, any kind of card. I have found myself actually counting on my fingers to arrive at the correct month. Why? Not only does it take more time to construct a form with the names of months vs. the numbers, but it takes up more real-estate on the page making it not only inconvenient in the usage but also in the execution.
I propose this: all web designers, developers, back-end coders PLEASE, do not use the name of the month in the expiration date field. Use the numbers instead. It is faster, easier to design around, and an easier experience for your audience.
-d
Monday, March 5th, 2007
Recently, the BBC entered into an agreement with YouTube to begin streaming high-quality videos on two separate “channels,” with the addition of a news channel later this year.
The BBC Channel will show clips, trailers and features to drive traffic back to the BBC site, and the pages won’t carry ads. BBC Worldwide, meanwhile, will be ad supported (pre-roll ads) and carry clips from Top Gear, The Mighty Boosh and nature programmes by David Attenborough, among other clips from the archive.
