When Mock-ups in Photoshop Goes Wrong (or How to Prep Your Design for a Web Developer 2)

Feb 23 2010

Two weeks ago Simon gave us some examples on what can go wrong in a web design. In this post I just want to add to this and bring up some more, according to me, quite common mistakes that I think designers do. This is not about complaining and I hope that anybody reading this realize that. It’s simply just about improving our skills and I would love to read a similar post from a designers point of view.
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Just Some Real Immature iPad Jokes

Feb 1 2010

There are not many unreleased things that one can grow tired of after just a couple days. But the iPad definately fits into that category. I know a lot of people is dead and fuzzy-headed tired of even hearing the word iPa… (See? Didn’t say it!) So uhm, sorry, but this post is for not ”deadly tired” people. Continue reading…

Escaping from Encoding Hell

Jan 19 2010

What we gonna talk about here is character encoding and how to convert from ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8. If this doesn’t seem familiar to you you might want to start learning a bit about it. Cause hell is a scary place and you don’t want to end up there. This is how to avoid hell and for those of you who are struggling in the darkness; this is how to get your ass out of there.
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Are You Tired of Captcha?

May 29 2009

The other day I received a phone call from my mum. She was trying to help my aunt to set up an account on Gmail. My mum knows a little something about the internet and how things work so I was pretty sure they would figure it all out by themselves. Turns out they didn’t. After trying for hours (no joking..) I got this desperate call from my mum in which she claimed that “they” (I guess she meant the google-people) was erasing her password and every time she tried to do it again they made it harder.

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IE6, let us deal with all this hate!

May 9 2009

Being frustrated and full of hate is rarely something productive. If you are a web developer and have the feeling that all this hate for a “certain browser” is making you insane maybe this post can be of some help for you.

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