Category Archives: Web design

CSS spring cleaning?

Posted on March 1, 2004 by Chris Heisel

Barry Parr brings up a very good idea, revisiting and cleaning up your style sheets. I’ve been working on a big project, and as it grew during the development cycle I took a week to clean up and refactor the … Continue reading →

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Woe, woe is me

Posted on February 24, 2004 by Chris Heisel

I haven’t been charmed by the snake for long, but oh how it’s charmed me. Right now, I’d really, really, really like to have Python’s slice operators in PHP. Once you’ve started using Python, you’ll never want to go back. … Continue reading →

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It’s stupid, on purpose

Posted on February 20, 2004 by Chris Heisel

Anyone who works in the Internet biz, especially us newspaper types, should check out World of Ends. This is a great article by Doc Searls and David Weinberger, that really gets at what the Internet is and what stupid (not … Continue reading →

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It’s my browser, not yours

Posted on February 13, 2004 by Chris Heisel

And I’ll decide when to open links a new window, thank you very much. E-media Tidbit’s Steve Outing gets it wrong when he suggests that papers should send readers to off-site links in a new window. His suggestion that the … Continue reading →

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Advertisers not getting the message

Posted on January 6, 2004 by Chris Heisel

I read Trek Today, and TrekBBS — I’m a nerd, let’s move on. They both have annoying, moving, spining, jumping, singing, spitting, yelling ads that annoy me and give me a bad impression of the company the ad is for … Continue reading →