A web designoper’s journal
Posted in Usability on Mar 11th, 2010
I’m sure you’ve filled out a form on a website and at some point gotten a message about not completing a required field, only to find that one of the boxes you thought you clicked on never received your click. Sure you probably clicked close to the button or box when you filled out the [...]
Posted in CSS, JavaScript, PHP, Usability on Mar 1st, 2010
Recently I was checking out some code written many years ago by another developer, and as I was hacking it up to be re-used, I started wondering why he had decided to split up his lines of code so that they were very narrow. Comments, for example, that were a few sentences long ended up [...]
Posted in Usability on Nov 5th, 2009
I’ve always been a firm believer in creating websites that are standards complaint (as much as possible) so that they look and function the same way across various operating systems and browsers. I came from a Windows environment and have never owned a Mac. I’ve used them at work for testing and troubleshooting, but I [...]
Posted in JavaScript, Usability on Oct 23rd, 2009
I can’t seem to stop creating jQuery plugins. The project that’s currently taking up most of my time provides me a lot of freedom in the way the site is designed. As I work through various parts of the site, my brain begins to come up with ways to enhance parts here and there with [...]