Archive for the ‘Web Development’ Category
I just stumbled upon this opinion column in Smashing Magazine, which claims that Web Designers should not use ad blockers. Along with a bunch of lousy arguments, the author fails to account for my two biggest reasons for using ad blocking: Resource Consumption (time and bandwidth) – it’s makes the web faster Ads Mostly Suck [...]
Situation A user initiates an action that will take some time to complete. This happens all the time, in all sorts of applications. The most common places you will find this are downloading and installing. Downloading is the easiest target for improvement so this is what I will focus on here. The system wants to [...]
Let me start by saying that I love Gravatar.com–most of the time. They do one thing very well: Serving up an avatar based on an email address. (skip below if you are just interested in why they FAIL) How Gravatar Works Anyone can sign up on Gravatar, upload images, crop them and associate them to [...]
