Category Archives: Web-design

My Hypermedia History

The Early Years Stumbled upon some WYSIWYG app on a CD from Bug magazine back in high-school days. FrontPage sucks. Learning the way websites work almost just as fun as Age of Empires or even Need for Speed. Wrapping one … Continue reading

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On Talent

I’ve stumbled upon a great article called I Have no Talent (via). In that article, John says you can do anything if you put your mind to it. I couldn’t agree more. Joen also wrote about the subject a few years … Continue reading

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The Devil is in the Details, part two

I remember talking online to a musician friend of mine a while back about the sound of a certain music album. To be more specific, we discussed how the bass guitar sounds and how it is more felt than heard. … Continue reading

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The Devil is in the Details

The line that separates a remarkable from an unremarkable site is often a thin one. That line may well be made of very small bits and pieces, which may well be virtually invisible to the average user. In the world … Continue reading

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Stop wasting our time

It’s common sense to put the publication date of the article somewhere at the top of the page and make it easy to spot straight off. Users want to see the relevant information immediately. The same principle applies for newspapers, … Continue reading

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The Do’s & Don’ts of Modern Web Design

We just launched The Do’s & Don’ts of Modern Web Design. At WebD&D you’ll find delicious and snacksized web design tips and tricks. Each tip or trick comes with a link to an article on the subject so you can … Continue reading

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Don’t publish undated content

Quick content tip: do not provide undated information on your websites. If you do not include a date in your content, your text may not be considered relevant and you will look unprofessional. When a user lands on your website … Continue reading

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Classy Amp

Classy Amp is a WordPress plugin which wraps ampersands in headings with <span class=”amp”> </span>. Thanks to that, you can style your amps via CSS and improve the typography on your website. My friend Alan Lež (alanlez at gmail.com), an … Continue reading

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What NBSP means and does

For such an easy to understand HTML entity, the non-breaking space (NBSP, &nbsp;) is being misused way too often. Believe it or not, non-breaking spaces are just that — spaces where a line break will not occur. Meaning, you should … Continue reading

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We want to know what you are about

I bumped into another blog that did not include the about page. A word of advice: you’re not doing anyone a favor by omitting your personal info. We want to know something about you if we’re gonna read your articles … Continue reading

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