Tag Archives: web design
Removing Myspace Music with Greasemonkey
As you may or may not know, I fucking hate when people put music on their myspace. In fact I actually dislike pretty much every single design choice that was made on that website. I don’t hate the concept – … Continue reading
New Yahoo TV Listings
I absolutely hate the new Yahoo TV Listings page. Usually, when you use some spiffy AJAX to dynamically load content it improves user experience. But somehow Yahoo web design team found a way to make it do exactly the opposite. … Continue reading
Pirate Song Strikes Back
Normally I do not mind people direct linking stuff from my site, but recently I noticed that the pirate song started to pop up on various blogs and message boards. Please note that I’m not the author of that file … Continue reading
I hate the Bloglines Plumber
I seriously hate the Bloglines plumber! :evil: I hope he gets AIDS and dies! Anal cancer is also good – he can also get that. Can you think of a more annoying maintenance graphic? I mean, what is wrong with … Continue reading
Page Breaks in CSS
How do you force to put page breaks in specific sections when you print a web page? The sat truth is that it is not always possible. But if you can guarantee that your visitors will be using a modern … Continue reading
WP-Cache
My blog tends to be a little bit slow at times. The reason for this is twofold: I’m hosted on a shared box, along with a dozen other websites. We all share resources, and thus sometimes we can experience slowdowns. … Continue reading
All-Flash Website Flowchart
They say a picture is worth a thousand words, so feast your eyes on this: flowchart © thegooglecache.com If you are considering building an all flash page, you have to ask yourself a simple question. Do you want: Standards compliant, … Continue reading
MSU Page Redesign
Here is how I feel about the new montclair.edu page design: “it looks like butt”. Who decided to put an unstoppable flash video featuring loud music and short statements from the staff and students on the front page? It’s not … Continue reading
Myspace
Myspace is the one place on the web where poor web design meets with a collective lack of aesthetic sensibility and poor taste in music. Putting a colorful image as your background, and making all the layout tables transparent is … Continue reading
Bad Domain Names
Have you ever used Experts Exchange site? I often find some really good solutions in their open archives that get indexed by google. Here is an interesting tidbit about that website. It’s original domain used to be expertsexchange.com Read that … Continue reading
Vote for the Ugly!
Do you know someone whose customized MySpace page is so ugly it makes you want to run away and hide under the table? How do you spot an ugly myspace? They usually include some of the following features: clashing colors, … Continue reading
Testing Google Spreadsheet
I signed up for the test run of Google Spreadsheet in the morning, and I just got my invitation. So I decided to play around with it. I logged in and I was presented with a blank spreadsheet. Cool. I … Continue reading
Joomla
As you may or may not know, I want to expand my humble little website into something more. My whole motivation behind moving away from free services was to be able to do more than just blog. WordPress is an … Continue reading