July 2005

What really annoys web users

16 Things that Really Annoy Most Web Users. I was surprised by the pop-up ads item — I’d completely forgotten about pop-up ads — it’s been so long since I’ve seen one. So, who doesn’t use a pop-up blocker? [Via Lockergnome's Bits and Bytes.]

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XHTML Templates Quick Start

Kevin Hale generously provides his XHTML Templates as a starter kit and explains how he composed them. Useful. [Via webgraphics.]

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Widgets for web developers

Lisa McMillan describes cool widgets for web developers: Bestof. Dashboard for web developers edition. Includes widgets for the total number of hits to your site, CSS Cheat Sheet, colour selector, UNIX Permissions Calculator. There are a couple of dozen widgets mentioned there. [Via The Unofficial Apple Weblog.]

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ICE may save your life

A simple, sensible strategy: Ambulance services and Vodafone in the UK have launched a national “In Case of Emergency” campaign, known as ICE. They are encouraging people to store the word ICE in their mobile phone address book and against it enter the number of the person they would want contacted in case of an [...]

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Enjoy digital SLR cameras

Canon has a new educational website called Enjoy! Digital SLR Cameras (requires Flash). Tutorials help you to select the right exposure, frame subjects more creatively and so on. [Via Digital Photography Review.] I just seem to struggle perpetually with my camera — it’s a lack of time, amongst other things. I also realised I needed [...]

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Stylegala

Stylegala came to my attention recently. No RSS feeds for news though, so I’m afraid I seldom keep up to date with them. I just don’t visit websites regularly any more. Stylegala is an online resource and inspiration guide for web agencies, designers and developers who take interest in websites that combine the powers of [...]

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