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Does Your Site Suffer from Buttonitis
Modern design and the usually poor implementation of social media promotion and ads lead to visual eyesores. Don’t make the same mistake, avoid buttonitis on your site.
The Quest for Simplicity
I love simple things. No matter too complicated will scare me or make me run away, at least not when it’s a real challenge I believe in. Challenges are awesome and the best way to win win a challenge is to simplify it as much as possible. It’s what I loved about mathematics. Back in the day when I had 9 hours of math every week at school. Read more
HTML Is Still Too Complicated
Reading Mark Pilgrim’s excellent Why do we have an img elelment it is simple to understand that HTML still too complex is. But HTML 5 is one step in the good direction.
Oops, He Does It Again
Blog in Maintenance Mode. At least until the next two three to five days of my life will have been focused on hacking this template, getting rid of inline styling and make it look like I want.
With some CSS3 and more stuff you can’t see in your browser. Obviously IE6 and older will not be supported.
♣ Do You Prefer A Great Style Over Awesome Design?
The challenge in establishing an effective design solution that reaches a broad audience is in no way less difficult or creative than making work that is personal in nature. In fact, I’d argue that it’s typically much more challenging, as it requires one to dissociate with personal perspectives, in an effort to understand the situation from a more pluralistic standpoint.
Eric Karjaluoto on design vs. style: Fuck Style an appeal to return to hardcore design.
Misunderstanding The GPL License
But, this week the redistribution of Mimbo was taken a step further by Michael Oeser, who changed the name to Branford Magazine, thus relieving him of any GPL issues. He also added some bits from Structure (Justin Tadlock) and Revolution (Brian Gardner), though anyone viewing the source code can see it’s 90% Mimbo with a new paint job.
Darren Hoyt, creator of the wonderful Mimbo theme for WordPress after the release of his Blandford theme. But so many points are wrong in Darren’s whine reasoning:
- A name change does not relieve of the GPL issues
- GPL license allows to redistribute, with or without links. Whether in altered form or in original form
- Brian Gardner’s revolution is copyrighted.
To resume, a whine. A whine because the GPL *does call* for ethics, and likes the source to be credited (in code is sufficient – although I do doubt the Blandford theme credits in the code), but this is no license requirement and the GPL *does allow* any credit to be removed.
Chyrp Theme Development
Chyrp theme development has been put on hold for some days, as Chyrp will be updated to PHP5 and PHP5 only.
None of the themes I will release for Chyrp will support IE6. There are enough of reason to upgrade to IE7 and if you can’t upgrade you should whether buy a legal Windows XP or not waste your valuable company time blogging.
Platforms such as Windows 2000 are not supported by MS anymore, there’s no reason to provide a backward compatibility for non-supported systems.
Period.
♣ IE Market Share
It is true that Internet Explorer has been increasing in market share from 1997 to 1999. But I predict that IE will never reach the same market dominance as that enjoyed by line-mode, Mosaic, and Netscape from 1991 to 1996.
— Jakob Nielsen, Designing Web Usability, page 37, 1999
