I have been using Powweb.com for a couple years now, I think. I signed up for a 12 month program last July. Since then, the ownership of Powweb has changed. Since the switchover, I have seen degrading performance. FTP is slow, sometimes painfully slow. This website is sometimes slow and once in a while won’t…
So much to do. So little time. I find lists to help me organize my thinking. I had a dream last night that I was adding the Google Analytics script to http://js.commadot.com. I really should do that. Check out a JPG of the new Google Analytics version coming soon. I like the design and am…
I am totally stunned that I have gone so long without knowing this works. <div class=”foo bar”>ONE</div> <div class=”foo”>TWO</div> <div class=”bar”>THREE</div> Before today, I didn’t think you could make a single-line CSS statement that affected ONLY number ONE and not TWO AND THREE. Previously, I would do torturous workarounds. But I was just informed today…
Truth be told, I use GMail as my primary mail program. I have been happy with the Google UX lately using Google Talk, GMail, Picasa, Picasa Web Albums and sometimes Google Desktop. Gmail is very good for mailing lists like jQuery. Much better than anything I have seen from Microsoft (Hotmail, Outlook, Outlook Express, Live…
DISCLAIMER: UX Judgements are harsh. Don’t get upset or defensive. Ignore them if you wish, but like Simon on American Idol, what I say hurts, but it’s true. The date picker in Google Analytics on the left is not obvious. The only way to make a custom range is to find a hidden icon no…
I accidentally crashed IE7. I narrowed down the code to be a CSS issue. It’s surprisingly simple and very annoying. Code: Crashes IE7 Link2 Is span not allow to self close? Lame.
Trying to upload my first YouTube and embed it here. Of course, the editor is not helping. Let’s see if this works. It’s an old video of Ethan Dancing to Happy Days.
I put the urchin.js file on commadot a month ago. It is a little file that tells Google everything that is happening on this page. It’s quite amazing actually. Really solid user interface. (Much better than AdWords) Great information. Nice use of Flash, where appropriate. Look at this image showing where commadot.com users reside. And…
I am trying to switch to the technique of 1 giant icons file. I didn’t like the opacity filter for the disabled elements. I really wanted grayscale. So I had to use duplicate images. I made a grid on my image so that the math was easy. See image here. So in my CSS, all…
Great article about using concatenation of images. I have been doing this for a while. For me, a major trick is to make sure that the images still look good even though they might be of varying colors. I have been considering one giant “icons” image that has all of them. I worry about the…
This problem is driving me nuts. http://www.commadot.com/jquery/simple.htm I want to make a yellow box with a red border. (Must be two divs). I want to be able to move the yellow box and change its size and still have the red border hug it tight. I asked Experts-Exchange and got no love. I joined the…
I hope I answered all the questions correctly. 🙂 Speaking of Web Design. I had this minor problem. My code looks like: <body> <div style=”border: 1px solid red; display:inline; “> <span> <img src=”anyImage.jpg” mce_src=”anyImage.jpg” border=”0″ /> </span> </div> </body> What I don’t understand is why Firefox doesn’t display properly inline. It’s supposed to hug the content.…
Well, that didn’t last long. I uninstalled Dreamweaver CS3. What a piece of garbage! Man, what the hell happened here? Macromedia (Adobe) bought a brilliant program from Nick Bradbury called Homesite. Then they proceeded to ignore Homesite and sue anyone who copied it’s innovative design. They they made Dreamweaver which systematically eliminated every single good…
I just upgraded my machine at work to Vista Business. This is the first “upgrade” that I did. All of the others, I was forced to do a clean install. The upgrade process went fine. Maybe it took a little longer than hoped (2 hours). Good thing I had other things to do. I also…