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So we have exactly one month left in the yoshirolla kilomantra contest, which ends September 10th. In a last ditch effort to climb in the rankings I have created 4 new pages. In keeping with my breaking the words yoshirolla kilomantra apart into the component syllables I have created the …

One of my co-workers posted this gem on the Web dev blog, which actually came from another blog, Command Line Warriors. It is basically how to crash IE in just 5 tags and a CSS declaration. <style>*{position:relative}</style><table><input /></table> that is it. Put that in your code and it will crash …

Sometimes the best sites I come across are not really websites in a conventional sense. They are not designed to sell something, or provide any factual information per se. They are more…experiments. They are little pieces of artwork that are stunning not only for their design aethetics but also for …

Recently one of the clients I work on had a major launch. This was a project months in the making and is making a major difference in their customer behavior. What I found disturbing was the fact that they launched it at noon mid-week. One of the things to consider …

Web analytics are awesome. They cut through all the crap, all the emotion and get down to the nitty-gritty of things. It doesn’t matter if the CEO’s wife really likes the color pink, or that the director of web services feels drop-down menus are bad fung shui, if you have …

Not that long ago my team at work was tasked with creating a new homepage for our client. In true team fashion we were allowed our input as to the problems and solutions to the current home page. Now I work as a web developer so my input was mostly …

There are several books I keep on my desk at work. Some are about interaction and usability, one on coding and one for design and planning (with emphasis on the planning). I think part of having a well-rounded skill set is having a well-rounded library. The Zen of CSS Design …

So the Yoshirolla Kilomantra contest continues. I am in third place. My top spot in Google was overthrown by Joe Dee and Geoff Sowrey, both of whom have long standing blogs they basically made into their yoshirolla kilomantra entries. So at the moment I am: 4th on Google6th on Yahoo7th …

Coders and programmers have the same issue that writers do. Proofing your own work is all but impossible. While Word has spell checker, what does the web have? Quite a lot actually. The best place to start is Firefox’s extensions . To access them go to tools–>Add ons. In the …