I have been an adamant Ubuntu supporter since I was ‘converted’ to it – but I have been quite disappointed with Feisty (AKA: Version 7.04). Not Feisty itself, but the process. I was running the previous version (Edgy) and tried to simply upgrade using the…
Author: Nicole Hernandez
As a change of pace, there is a great resource article that covers tips for CLIENTS rather than for the designers. Definitely some gems in here, and it would be an amazing thing if all clients automatically did these (not that it will happen –…
There’s a great article on DailyBlogTips that is called ’43 Web Design Mistakes You Should Avoid.’ The article starts with 43, but the user comments bring it up a bit more. Lots of great suggestions in that list. Most of them are things that we…
You know which I mean – "The Survey". If you don’t know what I mean, you haven’t checked your feed reader on recent ‘A List Apart’ posts 😉 Ok, enough silliness. A List Apart has decided to do their first survey (to be repeated annually).…
A very frequent question about WordPress is how to show something only on the main page or, conversely, show something only on subpages. It’s super easy to do, but it’s a simple way you can make WordPress blog feel more dynamic. Let’s say, for example,…
Digg has been at the forefront of a pretty significant controversy in recent days, and there were two obvious ways to react for them to react — amusingly enough, they did both. It all started with someone who posted a series of HEX numbers and…
According to recently released numbers from XiTi, Firefox use in Europe has jumped another 5 points in the last year (since April 2006). From 19.4% in the week of April 8 to 14, 2006, Firefox’ use rate in Europe increased to 24.1% in the week…
Experienced webmasters know there are special sources or places on the web which will send massive amounts of traffic to your site. They also know, if harnessed properly, these mega traffic sites will supply any web site with a steady stream of visitors. Perhaps the…
This may be the height of geekiness, and it is a bit random, but I ran across this notice in my WordPress dashboard today: Rod McFarland came up with a Commodore 64 theme for WordPress. Now before you start laughing at why I find this…
If you have visited the blog lately, you may have noticed that the design has changed rather significantly. It’s not entirely done, and I’m tweaking things as I come across them, but I’m rather pleased with how it’s coming along so far. The theme is…