Category Archives: Web design

Amazon’s crummy messages

Wherein I recount the ordeal of ordering phone service from Amazon, and their non-defensive design of error messages. Continue reading

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RSS subscription usability

[Veen](http://www.veen.com/jeff/archives/000733.html) brings up a good point about the [usability of subscribing to RSS feeds](http://www.veen.com/jeff/archives/000733.html). With the rollout of feeds on our [paid sports site](http://www.ajcsportsplus.com), and as we’re beginning to roll out feeds on [AJC.com](http://www.ajc.com), it’s a question I’ve tried to … Continue reading

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Quote of the day

“It’s a Gmail task in a Hotmail world” A coworker sent me that quote, and neither of us can find the source… if anyone out there in great wild Web knows, please drop a line… Update: 5-16-06: Thanks to irayo … Continue reading

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Getting simple

Wherein I compliment simpleydone.com’s design and ponder my own redesign. Continue reading

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What to say about CSS?

At work, I’m getting to teach a basic CSS course for our producers. I had a blast teaching advanced copy editing/basic newspaper design when I was in [grad school](http://www.journalism.missouri.edu/), so the chance to teach again is great! The trouble I’m … Continue reading

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