“Web” Category

5^th May 2008	Must… Avoid… Cache/Caching Pun… Optimisation through reuse.
21^st Apr 2008	Making Buttons ‘Bobble’ A simple CSS effect.
18^th Apr 2008	Interchangeable Form Elements Same data, different user interface.
16^th Apr 2008	Mid-April Link Dump Eurovision, comics, JavaScript, cards and more.
15^th Apr 2008	Missing Scrollbars In Mac Firefox 3 An obscure but irritating quirk.
9^th Apr 2008	A Shinier, Tastier Green Apple An eco-friendly ecommerce redesign.
7^th Apr 2008	Web Design: Surprisingly Static I’m partly relieved, partly disappointed.
25^th Mar 2008	Late-March Link Dump Replies, URLs, comments, security, sci-fi, SPF and caching.
10^th Mar 2008	The Dark Art of LOLspeak With great power comes great responsibility.
7^th Mar 2008	Early-March Link Dump Zombies, information, layouts, maps, pi and more.
26^th Feb 2008	The Downside of Uploads Another extra burden imposed by IE.
20^th Feb 2008	Using the Vista Fonts Without Vista Install them in XP for free.
10^th Feb 2008	Mid-February Link Dump Bear, livestock, dog, pony, lemurs and more.
4^th Feb 2008	Yet More LOLcat Nonsense, I’m Afraid by Miffers Schrodinga
27^th Jan 2008	Think Before Doing Why not keep the planning bit separate?
22^nd Jan 2008	One-Click Kittenisation Probably patented by Amazon.
16^th Jan 2008	Mid-January Link Dump Printing, recording, squatting, fighting and more.
14^th Jan 2008	Get The Wii Internet Channel For Free It’s a bit of a faff.
20^th Dec 2007	Pre-Christmas Link Dump Sega, favicons, crunch mode, idents and more.
19^th Dec 2007	Hiding CSS From IE5 A conditional comments example.
18^th Dec 2007	IE5 R.I.P. It’s the new Netscape 4.
17^th Dec 2007	Pedants’ Corner Spelling and grammar nitpicking.
14^th Dec 2007	iPlayer Goes To Eleven “Why don’t you make ten a little louder?”
5^th Dec 2007	The Barwick-o-tron 3000™ How to select an England football manager.
3^rd Dec 2007	LOLcat Epidemiology Which nations luv teh kittehs?
28^th Nov 2007	isthissitepointless.com Short answers to simple questions.
23^rd Nov 2007	Gabocorp: a Flashy Flashback to 1997 Shiny spheres and looped music.
20^th Nov 2007	Subscribophobia Sites I can’t face reading every day.
19^th Nov 2007	World of LOLcraft By popular demand.
13^th Nov 2007	PHP preg Pattern Pitfall Watch out for those trailing newlines.
12^th Nov 2007	Mid-November Link Dump Science, vectors, cows, animation, poultry, comics and more.
2^nd Nov 2007	LOLinator: i can haz websiet? OH NOES!
26^th Oct 2007	In Defence of PHP Short Tags Questioning the conventional wisdom.
23^rd Oct 2007	Floral Fashion Boutique shopping for clothes, lingerie and accessories.
18^th Oct 2007	Mid-October Link Dump Animation, exploits, Morse, Ajax, SEO, games, amputation and beans.
24^th Sep 2007	Opting Out of Image Searches How to exclude your pics from being spidered.
21^st Sep 2007	Mid-September Link Dump Karma, fish, evil, dinosaurs, bugs and more.
3^rd Sep 2007	Bye Bye Bloglines I’ll be reading feeds elsewhere.
31^st Aug 2007	The Tackiest Ad I’ve Seen In A While I suppose it makes a change from punching monkeys.
30^th Aug 2007	August Link Dump Video, newspapers, marketing, ideas, bubbles and more.
24^th Aug 2007	DNS Rebinding Nastiness Zombifying browsers for fun and profit.
6^th Aug 2007	Flash Enhancements 11 ways to use it to extend the browser.
19^th Jul 2007	Analytics Revisited Trying out the new Google Analytics interface.
18^th Jul 2007	Mid-July Link Dump Disaster recovery, games, PHP, video, messaging and domain names.
4^th Jul 2007	The Uncomfortable Truth About PHP PHP6 isn’t necessarily the best successor to PHP5.
16^th Jun 2007	Furtive Fundraising Appealing to the urge to customise and show off.
15^th Jun 2007	Miscellaneous Advice Link Dump Just a few links about work and hiring.
4^th Jun 2007	Browsing By Ear A video introduction to screen reading technology.
2^nd Jun 2007	May Link Dump Sickness, security, sound effects and more.
18^th May 2007	In a Zen State Just a brief e-commerce grumble.
27^th Apr 2007	April Link Dump GIFs, colours, templates, demos, clients, CSS, frameworks and maths.
14^th Apr 2007	A Framework For Discussion (Of Frameworks) Acknowledging the difference between applications and sites.
6^th Apr 2007	Endangered GIFs Digital artefacts from the 1990s.
3^rd Apr 2007	Using HTTP Status Codes Errors for all occasions.
2^nd Apr 2007	Ask Fools’ Day The best spoofs are awkwardly close to the truth.
30^th Mar 2007	March Link Dump Lisa, fluid, stats, Python, brushes, Wii and time off.
12^th Mar 2007	Unicode-friendly PHP and MySQL Getting web applications to think in UTF-8.
8^th Mar 2007	License to Phish Companies that confuse users are helping fraudsters.
28^th Feb 2007	February Link Dump Torquay, Robocop, idents, flowers and more.
22^nd Feb 2007	PaperVision3D’s Flashy Origami Chucking polygons around with ActionScript.
20^th Feb 2007	Faffing About With Frameworks Choosing the right foundations to build on.
31^st Jan 2007	End-o’-January Link Dump The new year produced a bumper crop.
24^th Jan 2007	Book Review: Building Scalable Web Sites Sound advice from Flickr’s architect.
16^th Jan 2007	Mid-January Link Dump A new miscellany for the new year.
2^nd Jan 2007	OpenDNS Update New European servers and cache checking/refreshing.
28^th Dec 2006	End-of-year Link Dump Using up URLs marked “Best Before End: 2006”.
18^th Dec 2006	Celebrity Scribbles Jeff Bridges’ idiosyncratic approach to web design.
8^th Dec 2006	Link Maintenance Diverting some of the ‘Google juice’.
6^th Dec 2006	How to Win a Million (More Often) And make Alex Tew even richer. Bah.
4^th Dec 2006	Spam: The Movie A trick for sneaking video into email.
28^th Nov 2006	November Link Dump Chicks, nukes, prime numbers and more.
27^th Nov 2006	techlawlifelaunched A new malevolent-designed site for attorney Jeff Seul.
24^th Nov 2006	Flash Dance Anyone drawn Jennifer Beals yet?
23^rd Nov 2006	Taking the Blog Out of Blogging Blogging about bloggers blogging about blogging. Ugh.
7^th Nov 2006	Spyware? Yahoo! Oops.
1^st Nov 2006	The Terrible Twos 730 days and counting.
31^st Oct 2006	Top Ten Timewasting Techniques How to avoid getting things done.
23^rd Oct 2006	Password Shouting A nifty feature for CAPS LOCK USERS.
20^th Oct 2006	Vulnerability Sloppy coding and head-in-the-sand attitudes.
16^th Oct 2006	MiSpace Could Apple already learn something from the Zune?
10^th Oct 2006	ISP DNS RIP Something to try if your surfing slows.
29^th Sep 2006	The Green Apple Eco-friendly and ethical products galore.
21^st Sep 2006	XHTML Rules, OK? More misguided markup advice.
18^th Sep 2006	Selling Jobs Niche recruitment and job ads with personality.
15^th Sep 2006	Going Phishing With Google A handy security hole for scammers.
14^th Sep 2006	Tweaking WordPress Page Titles Improve most themes with a snippet of code.
12^th Sep 2006	ID “Don’t you know who I am?”
9^th Sep 2006	Sweet Test Suite Running OS X and Windows in parallel in Parallels.
4^th Sep 2006	Securing OS X’s Personal Web Sharing Keep prying eyes away from work in progress.
3^rd Sep 2006	Pastify Fact: HTTP stands for HyperText Transfer of Pasties.
28^th Aug 2006	Getting My Nose Back to the Grindstone This thing with the buttons and glowing screen looks familiar.
18^th Aug 2006	Setting Up Apache, PHP, MySQL, .htaccess and mod_rewrite in OS X I think the title says more than enough.
17^th Aug 2006	Development Developments I’ve switched, but I promise not to be a smug fanboy.
13^th Aug 2006	Pet Project Ideas are cheap. This one’s free.
5^th Aug 2006	Perplexing Multiplex A usability horror movie.
3^rd Aug 2006	malevole Redesign: Front-end Features So what stuff will people see?
1^st Aug 2006	Geeking Out in the Gardens Picnic-wielding web developers due to invade Leamington!
14^th Jul 2006	Dumpy Digg, Flabby Flickr High calorie toolkits can weigh sites down.
24^th Jun 2006	WordPress and Yahoo! Hosting Gripes Warnings for fellow web developers.
4^th Jun 2006	May Link Dump E-commerce, RSI, bogroll, generators, demons and scripts.
23^rd May 2006	Headdress for OS X Simplified Apache configuration for web developers.
21^st May 2006	Pre-activated Flash Getting rid of ‘Eolas clicks’.
9^th May 2006	Domesday Data The tricky business of archiving information.
8^th May 2006	Pinging Bloglines Feed your subscribers faster.
1^st May 2006	April Link Dump Dinosaurs, email, stick figures, design, modelling, drums, video, text and clutter.
24^th Apr 2006	RSS (Russ’s Subscription Seizures) The subtle art of telling people to F off.
20^th Apr 2006	The Blogger Strikes Back Tools for tackling ‘splogs’.
19^th Apr 2006	Keeping It Stupidly Simple Approach nifty interface gimmicks with caution.
8^th Apr 2006	Serial Scrounger How much cash will a million people donate?
6^th Apr 2006	Accept No Imitation The evils of the ‘splogosphere’.
2^nd Apr 2006	March Link Dump A month’s worth of bits’n’pieces.
28^th Mar 2006	malevole Redesign: Aims What’s the point?
21^st Mar 2006	T Time Summer wardrobe guide for geeks.
20^th Mar 2006	Pranklets Far nicer than clingfilm on toilet seats.
16^th Mar 2006	Preventing Prefetching Putting greedy browsers on a bit of a diet.
12^th Mar 2006	All Googled Out No more AdSense and Analytics for now.
10^th Mar 2006	Keeping Flash Active Internet Explorer update forces changes to sites.
6^th Mar 2006	How Not To Do An Online Presentation Softest sell ever.
5^th Mar 2006	malevole Redesign: Getting Really Real A plan for planning a project.
27^th Feb 2006	Settling Into A New Home Fingers crossed after moving hosting firms.
23^rd Feb 2006	Google Page Creator (BETA, of course) A bit like a web-based FrontPage v1.
22^nd Feb 2006	February Link Dump Bears, water, politics, web dev and fonts.
19^th Feb 2006	Lilac Leamington A token web presence for the Midlands’ latest boutique.
10^th Feb 2006	The Web Is Rubbish Go on, get it off your chest.
7^th Feb 2006	Selective Google Adsense and Firefox Ads Detect search engine referrals and Internet Explorer.
5^th Feb 2006	Banning’s Too Good For ’Em BMW Germany gets caught trying to game Google.
31^st Jan 2006	January Link Dump IE, animals, T-shirts, dinosaurs, tooltips, driving, wrapping and a quiz.
25^th Jan 2006	Opera Mini (Operetta?) A nifty free web browser for your mobile.
24^th Jan 2006	New Blood For Bloglines Some additions to my daily reading.
22^nd Jan 2006	Flash the Cash Don’t act too coy about your finances.
19^th Jan 2006	Dimwitted Denial of Service They just didn’t think it through…
14^th Jan 2006	Finishing Touches: Prettier Printing Making sure sites look their best on paper.
5^th Jan 2006	The IMDb Rides Out Feeding my random trivia addiction online.
2^nd Jan 2006	New Year Link Dump Clearing out miscellaneous bits’n’pieces.
4^th Dec 2005	“I need a blue bubble!” The strangely compelling game Drifts.
3^rd Dec 2005	AdExperiment Putting Google AdSense to the test.
28^th Nov 2005	Blogging Birthday A minor milestone slips by unnoticed.
26^th Nov 2005	Finishing Touches: Avoiding Caching Glitches Prevent old style sheets from hanging around.
23^rd Nov 2005	Alexa and Your WHOIS Info Keeping domain registration details off the web.
21^st Nov 2005	Analysing Analytics Giving Google’s new web stats a try.
14^th Nov 2005	Passing Comment The tricky task of separating ham from spam.
11^th Nov 2005	Mid-November Link Dump Questions, lunacy, paranoia, goths, vectors, mafia and cooking.
9^th Nov 2005	Splog Generator TV theme lyrics should be used for good, not evil
6^th Nov 2005	Stagnation and Overfeeding A couple of weblog observations.
5^th Nov 2005	Finishing Touches: Fonts Tweaking typography using less obvious font choices.
18^th Oct 2005	Mid-October Link Dump Quickly rustled up from miscellaneous leftovers.
13^th Oct 2005	Long Time No Blog 12 days is a long time in blogging.
23^rd Sep 2005	Hosting and Hurricanes It’s easy to forget where your server is in the real world.
18^th Sep 2005	Encyclopedic Internationalisation Using Wikipedia as an example of I18n best practice.
13^th Sep 2005	Email Injection Attacks Got a contact form? Make sure it’s safe.
11^th Sep 2005	The One Dollar Weblog Page Flogging ads and PageRank in gimmicky ways.
8^th Sep 2005	Even Fewer Popups with Firefox How to close a popups-from-plugins loophole.
4^th Sep 2005	Finishing Touches: Useful URLs The address bar is part of your site’s interface.
30^th Aug 2005	Download This Weblog Entry for $2.99 The healthy market for ‘casual games’ and digital content.
21^st Aug 2005	August Link Dump A clear-out featuring toast, games and more.
14^th Aug 2005	Finishing Touches: Presenting Feeds ‘RSS’? ‘XML’? ‘All a bit of a mess’?
12^th Aug 2005	Flashy Flash 8 New toys to play with from Macromedia.
7^th Aug 2005	They Know Where You Browse Browsers expose more data than you might realise.
30^th Jul 2005	Sky Interactive’s E-Business Portal Get your web site on UK satellite telly for free? Surely not.
26^th Jul 2005	“Kids Love Potter, Jerry” J.K.Rowling demonstrates how not to use Flash.
19^th Jul 2005	Daftest Ever Use of a Domain Name? CNET should know better.
18^th Jul 2005	“RAD Framework, Dude!” Ruby has been on Rails for a while; now Python has Django.
16^th Jul 2005	How About “Up and Atom”? No…? Feed format hits version 1.0 .
11^th Jul 2005	Finishing Touches: Search Engine Optimisation How to avoid throwing away free traffic.
23^rd Jun 2005	Logo Link Dump Clearing out my graphic design bookmarks.
15^th Jun 2005	Similar Templating Using just a dash of server-side coding to build up simple pages.
12^th Jun 2005	Naming Names A worrying URL, ‘creative’ baby name and oddly-titled theme park ride.
10^th Jun 2005	Zap United New Man U owners’ dodgy dot-com past.
6^th Jun 2005	Finishing Touches: Block Quotes Neatly displaying quoted chunks of content and their sources.
4^th Jun 2005	More XML Goodness from Google and Microsoft Google Sitemaps and Microsoft Office Open XML Formats.
1^st Jun 2005	Sticky Content You never know when you might want to glue styrofoam to glass.
29^th May 2005	Where the Web Went Right Ted Nelson v Tim Berners-Lee? The web wins by default.
26^th May 2005	A 3D Frog That Isn’t Crazy Pushing Flash, kicking and screaming, into the third dimension.
23^rd May 2005	Bloglines Plumber Have you spotted this man on Watchdog?
22^nd May 2005	Google Web Accelerator Aftermath Lessons learned from the publicised problems.
21^st May 2005	Daft Domain Up for Grabs Groan-inducing topicalfish.com available for free.
18^th May 2005	“Make clips of yourselves… and each other” Yep, it’s another quoteplay mention.
15^th May 2005	Rearranging the Weblog Furniture Just a few unspectacular changes to structure and presentation.
9^th May 2005	Podcasting Miscellany A collection of notes about the new medium.
1^st May 2005	Add Google Maps’ Directions to Your Site Help people to find you with a simple little form.
30^th Apr 2005	Safari So Goody (Sorry…) First to pass Acid2; Internet Explorer still struggling with Acid0.0001 .
28^th Apr 2005	Mobile Frustrations Perhaps I’ve been spoilt by the web’s openness?
23^rd Apr 2005	Using Flash’s Local Shared Objects for Good, Not Evil Add nifty features with Flash’s answer to cookies.
21^st Apr 2005	Syndication Showdown Reigning champion RSS versus young contender Atom.
17^th Apr 2005	Useful Stuff: Writing Online tools and resources for spelling, grammar and style.
14^th Apr 2005	Gmail Basic HTML View Not as accessible as it should be.
13^th Apr 2005	Lorem Ipsum: The Next Generation Spoof software indirectly impresses girlfriend.
12^th Apr 2005	Amazon DVD Rentals Initial impressions are mostly positive.
10^th Apr 2005	Linking With Confidence Authoritative sources of information on the web.
7^th Apr 2005	quoteplay Update Imminent improvements, and an interesting alternative approach.
5^th Apr 2005	Master of Your Domain Definitely not a ‘Seinfeld’ reference.
4^th Apr 2005	How to be Stabbed in the Face A famous comment-rich weblog entry.
2^nd Apr 2005	Finishing Touches: Opacity Rollovers Add a translucency effect to linked images.
1^st Apr 2005	Tinned Meat from WordPress Search engine spamming’s bad, no matter who’s doing it.
31^st Mar 2005	Totally Sucks, Dude Better products from Sony, same old rubbish web sites.
29^th Mar 2005	“How Many Lawyers Does It Take to Update a Weblog?” A new discussion ‘blawg’ from Denise Howell and co.
27^th Mar 2005	Easter Eggs Sorry, no chocolate. You know it’s bad for you.
26^th Mar 2005	Empty Niches Has every weblog idea been done already? Not quite…
22^nd Mar 2005	March Link Dump A quick clear-out of this month’s notes.
21^st Mar 2005	RSS Republishing Row Is putting others’ content on your site OK?
19^th Mar 2005	Minimalist Menus Keeping interactive systems simple.
16^th Mar 2005	Not The ‘Blink’ Malcom Gladwell Had In Mind Hotel haunted by CSS horror.
14^th Mar 2005	Validate While You Browse Handy Firefox extension for developers.
13^th Mar 2005	This Here Weblog: The Story So Far Four months of web development trivia.
10^th Mar 2005	Yahoo Marketing Iffy toolbar bundling by Adobe and Macromedia.
8^th Mar 2005	Dog-eared Bookmarks Have bookmarks/favorites become irrelevant?
28^th Feb 2005	Finishing Touches: Text Inputs Slightly slicker form styling.
26^th Feb 2005	“We’re Doomed!” “Don’t Panic!” Perhaps I’m a bit too jumpy to be a professional sysadmin.
26^th Feb 2005	Not Viral, Just Rotten MSN .: LOST
24^th Feb 2005	Finishing Touches: Permalinks Fine-tuning weblog entries’s links.
23^rd Feb 2005	Retro Markup: Just Say No, Kids XHTML pointless and overhyped? No and yes…
22^nd Feb 2005	PayPal Credit Card Payments Big news for tiny e-commerce sites.
20^th Feb 2005	Physics Geekery Destroy the Earth with rubber bands, spuds, and Britney.
20^th Feb 2005	Moogle? MDoogle? Search this site’s nooks and crannies.
19^th Feb 2005	Presenting the News Wikinews is running a design contest.
15^th Feb 2005	The Flashy Rodent Dilemma Should I stick with DHTML when redesigning malevole?
8^th Feb 2005	Finishing Touches: Code Blocks Producing prettier program listings.
7^th Feb 2005	Domain Names: The ‘Evil Twin’ Episode The foreseen hazards of multilingual URLs.
5^th Feb 2005	Link to Audio Excerpts With ‘quoteplay’ Podcast content can be opened up to deep-linking.
29^th Jan 2005	You Are Here Geotagged weblogs pinpointed by Multimap.
28^th Jan 2005	Penguins, Transformers, Stickmen, and Frogs Watching TV ads gives me déjà vu.
19^th Jan 2005	Stripped of Rank The pros and cons of Google’s new link type.
17^th Jan 2005	Link Link Even popular, web-savvy sites do stupid, web-hostile things.
13^th Jan 2005	Finishing Touches: Emphasis Highlighting the key point in each weblog entry.
12^th Jan 2005	MSN Search Beta Better Currently beats Google for inbound links.
8^th Jan 2005	Decentralise Is Macromedia Central going anywhere?
5^th Jan 2005	ASCII + JavaScript = MathML Good-looking mathematical formulas in web pages.
5^th Jan 2005	Remote Scripting for Dummies Resources for developers getting started with XMLHttpRequest.
1^st Jan 2005	Finishing Touches: Styled Keys Applying CSS to the kbd tag to display keyboard controls.
24^th Dec 2004	Excusing Exclusion PLCs claim complying with accessibility law is hard work.
22^nd Dec 2004	Finishing Touches: External Links Automatically adding little icons to signpost the emergency exits.
8^th Dec 2004	Mistake Number 21? Hundreds of links to choose from. Great.
6^th Dec 2004	Spiderability Testing An online tool for helping assess search engine optimisation.
5^th Dec 2004	Have Favatars Icons for comments, and a strange Microsoft observation.
2^nd Dec 2004	Stirring Things Up Good portal sites spread the fame around a little.
1^st Dec 2004	Deck the Sites with Boughs of Holly Bringing the festive spirit to the web.
30^th Nov 2004	Reading the News Feeding your information addiction with Bloglines.
28^th Nov 2004	Reinventing the Wheel Revelling in the madness of building my own blogging system.
27^th Nov 2004	Yahoo!’s Rather Large Youth Club No smuggled-in cigarettes or cheap cider though.
26^th Nov 2004	Favatars A nifty idea for adding little icons to weblog comments.
26^th Nov 2004	Ill-informed Journalists, Bah Humbug Columnist’s page doesn't work properly. Blames browser.
23^rd Nov 2004	BetterFilter Will anyone dare to not use blue?
23^rd Nov 2004	“What do you want?” “Information.” “You won’t get it.” “By hook or by crook, we will.”
21^st Nov 2004	Viral Advertising Third-party ad server adds malicious code to The Register.
14^th Nov 2004	The Phony Browser/Search/OS War A crucial countdown for Mozilla, Google and Apple.
4^th Nov 2004	Shop (Someone) Online “And I would’ve gotten away with it if it wasn’t for that pesky web site”
3^rd Nov 2004	Submit Yourself to the Button Yield! Surrender! Give in to authority!
1^st Nov 2004	“Is It Switched On?” Introducing the Malevolent Design Weblog.

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