Archive for the ‘Web Design’ Category
Video: It’s the Cloooouuuuud!
Posted by Nirav | Filed under Web Design
Web “Two-Oh” starts, gets chased off by Cloud Computing.
If the service goes down, you don’t even have to worry about it anymore. You just blame it on the clooouuuuud.
Via CenterNetworks, via Hacker News.
In Support of Internet Explorer (Kind Of)
Posted by Nirav | Filed under Microsoft, Web Design
No, I don’t check my sites in IE6, ever. But I do check them in IE7. Why? Because there are many people who are stuck with it. Which is why I think Jim Whimpey’s wrong when he posits that:
People that use Internet Explorer don’t care about their online experience.
Besides the elitist tone that his entire post takes, a clear lack of thinking drenches the piece. Perhaps Jim would have to not care about his online experience to use IE. However, there are hundreds of thousands of people who aren’t allowed to install anything other than IE on their company laptops. And do they know that it’s their browser’s fault that a site looks bad? No. They think it’s the site.
Yes, to hell with bad browsers. But I’m not going to say the same to my innocent users.
Link: The Survey for People Who Make Websites 2008
Posted by Nirav | Filed under Web Design
Go take it. It’s quite friendly.
Hosted by A List Apart: For People Who Make Websites.
Big Contrarian, a Much Better Blog Than This One
Posted by Nirav | Filed under Meta, Web Design
How does Big Contrarian look so good? The design is just exquisite; note that posts gorgeously allow for quotes and footnotes, giving the writer more avenues for expression than a simple text box (like this blog). The blurb at the top of the page gives you instant context, and I really like how links and posts are separated by color and the presence of a title in the latter. And of course, Jack Shedd is excellent with words.
It’s both incredibly cool and incredibly intimidating to have awesome role models.