Didn’t feel like reporting on anything today and wanted to do something cheerful. Webreference reviewed usability pro Jakob Nielsen’s newest book, Homepage Usability: 50 Websites Deconstructed and I got it in my head to do a song on him. Here’s what popped up. Apologies to Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice for messing with their … Read more
Tuesday – 8:30 AM CST Richardson, TX Telecom office I walked past three rows of cubicles to talk to a manager about scheduling. She told me to wait a minute because she was listening to the radio. Confused and unable to hear the radio, I asked what was going on. Reading her lips, “Two planes … Read more
Try to do something creative and it blows up in your face. Update on June 14, 2010: This post is hilarious. It has gotten a lot of attention … I was going to delete it, but then I thought: You know what? Let’s give folks they want. I hope this helps! 35 Ideas to Do … Read more
HTML writers, new web designers, and intermediate web designers most likely have a library of books covering how to create web sites and making them interactive. Glaringly missing from most of these libraries, including my own, is a book on graphics and aesthetics. I admit I let Designing Web Graphics.3 sit on my shelf, along … Read more
How often have you read online articles that annoyed you with poor grammar and other mistakes? How often do you arrive at a Web site that makes it difficult to scan the page to find what interests you? We all make mistakes in writing, but recurrent mistakes are a turn-off for some readers. Considering there … Read more
Using XHTML begins with the basics of what XHTML is and how it came to be. Holzschlag guides you from creating Web pages with XHTML to adding scripts and style to XHTML documents. She explains, “The best way to read the book will be determined by you!” Each chapter stands alone. It is organized as … Read more
This is my first blogger posting. I’ve decided to take the plunge so I can somehow keep my web site regularly updated and embarrass myself by displaying how small my mind is compared to bloggers out there in the world like Jason Kottke or Steve Champeon. Oy, now I have to find the time to … Read more