CSS for Form elements

September 9, 2009

Just working on a login form for a new site. Having achieved this using tables before, was delighted with the CSS-only solution offered in “The Art & Science of CSS” from Sitepoint. Posted via email from Kevin’s posterous

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Yahoo!

September 8, 2009

Just signing up for a new yahoo mail account. Am being asked for the name of a relative as a security question. Problem is, they require four characters or more and the person concerned has a three character name! Genius. Posted via email from Kevin’s posterous

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Autoresponders

September 8, 2009

Just completed Ch36 of book on starting a web business. Subject: autoresponders. Would you believe how hard it is to find a good autoresponder sequence covering autoresponders? Posted via email from Kevin’s posterous

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Police-speak

August 25, 2009

Just heard on radio: “a propensity for people we think of who are involved in gang culture to lower their age of entry” = “Gang members are younger now” Posted via email from Kevin’s posterous

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Secure Cookies

August 24, 2009

Excellent article on creating more secure cookies at Carsonified: http://bit.ly/ZbBH5 Posted via email from Kevin’s posterous

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The Power of democracy

August 21, 2009

I used 99designs.com to have a logo devised for a new site I’m creating. To some web designers this would be seen as a sin and a betrayal of the design community but I think 99designs is the ideal place to get a logo created. I wouldn’t want my website itself to be designed that [...]

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The Age of the Dinosaurs

August 6, 2009

Talk about trying to bolt the door after the horse has bolted. The news that the Sun etc are going to charge for access to their websites from next year had me nearly falling off my chair with laughter. It’s the stupidest idea I’ve heard in a long time and has precisely zero chance of [...]

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How not to get people to help

July 28, 2009

Got this email today from Moneywise magazine: Your opinion is vital to us as our aim for the website is to ensure that you have all the information you need presented in the right way for you. They want me to complete a survey, spending my own time and helping them to make more money. [...]

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Gullivers World: what browsers DOES it work on?

July 22, 2009

Take a look at Gulliver’s Dinosaur and Farm Park’s website . Try it first in Firefox (20% of users): I defy you to work out what’s going on with the calendar. It also doesn’t work properly in Internet Explorer 8. Just daft. Oh and, whatever you do, don’t click “Your Feedback” right at the bottom [...]

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Cineworld Stupidity

July 22, 2009

This is the ever-so nicely designed widget on the Cineworld site. Let’s look at the colour scheme: Dark blue = already shown Light blue = hmm, not sure Dark red = “Delux” (no way of working out what that means) Light red = “Digital” (again, no idea what that means) Putting aside the fact that [...]

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