manasarovar

I received a personal letter from the writer-director of an upcoming feature film called ManasarovarThe film is starting its theatre run in UK from [...]

Miss McDonald

weird but alluring. [...]

Know Your Users

K nowing your users is always an important element when it comes to designing a website... particularly when we're talking about copy. [...]

more accessibility

Developing sites for users with cognitive disabilities and learning difficulties. [...]

caps lock detection

I found this useful, but quite large, script through the Quirksmode site. You can detect if the user has Caps Lock on, and throw up an error messag [...]

Browsing habits of screen reader users

as noted by Standards Schmandards. [...]

What holiday?

First day back at work since the holidays. In summary: started bad and got worse before looking up.The train station was emptier than a Scottish pay [...]

An 'appy New Year to one and all

What a jolly chap I am sometimes. Out for a run on the first day of 2005 and merrily wishing every dog-walker, afternoon rambler and shitty little [...]

Inferiority complex

Cycling home from work the other day. Perishingly cold. Four blocks of ice, two on the handlebars and two on the pedals. I wanna melt those block [...]

send your xhtml as application/xhtml+xml

If you use PHP to serve your web pages, then here is the code snippet to use for determining if a user's browser is xhtml compliant.if ( isset($_SER [...]

the most hated advertising techniques

Spot-on selection of tips detailing the good and the bad when it comes to advertising techniques on the web: the most hated advertising techniques. [...]

Smooth internal links

Rakesh wrote about T he Usability Of Internal Links and pointed to a useful technique on display at Intrepidity Weblog where internal links (or anch [...]

Attention Windows Internet Explorer users

If you want to convince any Win/IE users to swap over to Firefox get them to read this: In-Depth Review: What Makes Firefox 1.0 So Compelling. (via [...]

Browser Wars

There is a good article here about the future of browsers. The plans of the software giant Microsoft show that a new version of Explorer on Windows [...]

Firefox on the up?

Over five million downloads for Firefox 1.0 and by the looks of things53% of the Windows Firefox 1.0 dowloads were being performed by IE users [...]

Disable caps-lock

Isn't caps lock a pain in the arse sometimes? How often have you typed a sentence that looks a bit like this: "hELLO MY NAME IS bLAIR mILLEN"? Nev [...]

We knew this already, didn't we?

Secret Benefits of Search Engine Optimisation: Increased Usability: article at Sitepoint. [...]

The End of Usability Culture

Thoughtful article by Dirk Knemeyer on how far usability has taken the web world; he questions if we have perhaps taken usability too far: The End of [...]

Browser wars again?

10% of internet users on Firefox by the end of next year is a very conservative estimate... article at News.com. [...]

Web Usability

Web Usability - accessibility & usability services. [...]

Observing Users Who Work With Screen Readers

Guidelines for Accessible and Usable Web Sites: Observing Users Who Work With Screen Readers... downl oad the PDF. [...]

CS X51 midi controller

Link dump #151

Ladies Improvement Society

Brilliant journal entry from K.R. Munson. Luckily I never experience this kind of thing in Glasgow... not sure what I'd do if i did! [...]