One of the things I love best about Web design is how creative people can get. I was reading one of my blogs today when I came across an interesting...

Daily Sucker for Tuesday, November 28, 2006 Submitter's comments: Vincent, I just stumbled on an amazing sucker at www.tampax.com. Seriously. After you go through the nonsense of selecting your country (don't get me started), you'll see that the main navigational menu is at the bottom, and the captions read vertically in the UP direction. You have to lay your head on your left shoulder to read ...

Unclear on the Concept I have a relative who is diabetic and he sent me a wonderful scan of a solicitation from the American Diabetes Association . Most of you know that sugar is poison to a diabetic -- a wonderful tasting poison. So it seems a little strange to me that the address label and some of the "free" address labels inside the envelope show a CANDY CANE. (Click image for bigger picture...

So many Web design contests ask you to build the best looking page you can, but sometimes building something ugly can help people to understand non-ugly design better. After all,...

Any of my friends will tell you that I'm a gadget freak. Sometimes I even scare myself - as I think of new things that I must have - even...

Daily Sucker for Monday, November 27, 2006 Submitter's comments: I'm speechless. Vincent's comments: Me, too. Well, almost. One of the few web pages where it's OK to load background music. I also realize music sites are given a pass, but you can abuse the privilege. Frankie Ford - The New Orleans Dynamo Technorati tags: webdesign | usability | webdev | accessibility | web graphics | website des...

This week, our primary focus is on find perl pipelines that serve as functional enhancements to find and consider possible improvements to grep and sed-like programs. We begin by comparing find's file-testing capabilities with Perl's. By Tim Maher 1127

I'm often asked how slow is too slow for a page to download. And if I provide times (4 seconds, 7 seconds, 10 seconds) someone invariably responds with a comment...