Nixon - The Answer

FreeRice

How many usability consultants does it take to change a lightbulb?

Tracy Godding asks for your best answer. [...]

End of an era?

Simon asks an interesting question: do we need CSS showcase galleries? The simple answer: yes. [...]

NoSquint

I wonder if NoSquint is the answer to my bulletproof layouts question? [...]

Life After Masturbation

Hilarious article. The explanatory introduction goes:Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week, ERIC FEEZELL advises a [...]

BrowseRank

BrowseRank is Microsoft's take on Google PageRank. Instead of counting incoming links it focusses on the sites people are using, like social media sit [...]

PhoneEasy

Is Adobe Flex Really Accessible?

The Spam Question

I'm concerned that I may have missed something here. There was a short period for a while there when it became quite popular on your blog to ask a q [...]

Wolfram Alpha

HEAP tables in MySQL

We all know accessing data in RAM is a lot quicker than accessing data on disk. So, with this in mind, wouldn't it make sense for MySQL to store as [...]

Fake celebrities

Call me a cynical bastard if you like but after reading about the fake Steve Jobs (commentary here) I'm more than a little skeptical about this series [...]

About Conditional Comments

Everyone knows that all good web designers keep their Internet Explorer specific styles in a seperate stylesheet. These styles are then called in us [...]

Brit Insurance Designs of the Year

Client Analyser

Petition for accessible government websites

I recently signed a petition asking the Prime Minister to "ensure that any website launched by the government complies with accessibility standar [...]

Chicken and egg web design

Mylo podcast

Mobile phones to order

Are the disabled revolting?

An article on The Register suggests that there may be a massive revolt by disabled internet users in the aftermath of the PAS 78 document release.Th [...]

Link dump #65

Link dump #129

Where's my head at?

You may well ask.Normally, with good intentions, I aim to sit down and write something witty, sharp and memorable to post on The Letter. I know I've [...]