Web Design

Enough people have been silly enough to ask me if I'll design a site for them that I have finally gone and created a portfolio for myself. If all the projects currently underway get completed without me killing anyone, there will be three additions and one update to that list. … [Read more...] about Fine.

Whack-a-Client. Based on Whack-a-Mole, in this game you use a rolled-up contract to swat clients as they spout wisdom born of their long experience in the industry. … [Read more...] about Therapy for web designers

I need a CMS. Trouble is, I don't know which one, and sites like PHP-Nuke that don't even bother to publish simple feature lists are not helping matters. Here's what I want: Automatic local navigation I am sick and tired of fooling with navigation. I want a CMS to be smart … [Read more...] about What I want in a CMS

…. or, misapplied CSS causes corporate scuffle. About two weeks ago, users of Opera 7 noticed that the MSN home page looked screwy in Opera, but appeared normally in all other browsers. Opera's CTO (who is also one of the authors of the W3C's CSS specs) did a little … [Read more...] about Hergee berger snooger bork

Netscape DevEdge has redesigned with an all-CSS layout. Nothing new there, although their DHTML menus are nicely done. What's interesting, from my point of view, is that they're using some very nifty CSS to ensure that in the printed page, the URL of every link in the page … [Read more...] about DevEdge redesign

Stress. Enlightenment. Beauty. Despair. Elegance. Anxiety. I'll be working late until futher notice. By the way, which do you prefer, version 1 or version 2? … [Read more...] about Web design is…

OK, not really. But today I have discovered several lovely GUIs for MySQL administration on OS X: Aqua Data Studio (cross-platform) YourSQL CocoaSQL … [Read more...] about MySQLFront for OS X