Getting on the front page of Digg is huge achievement for many Web developers, but is it really worth it? On May 19th, one of our articles on Thunderbolt - The Top 10 Most Entertaining Speedruns – made it to the front page and it gives us a chance to analyse what really happens once your [...]
Safari is a fine browser, but I’m put off by its lack of seemingly basic features, like a new tab button. Sure, you can get plugins to solve this, but you shouldn’t have to. However, one thing it does right is colour. Observe: This image, taken from my GTA IV review demonstrates why colour profiles [...]
Although CSS is not a complex language to learn, the amount of best practice advice out there is overwhelming. It seems like there are essentially two tiers of CSS knowledge; the first will give you to a reasonable understanding so you can make a basic website, while the second will help you progress to a [...]
Gamespot has some nerve. I went to read their GTA IV review, only to be shown this: It goes without saying that GameSpot is a big website, but they obviously have no idea about design or usability. Pop up windows are now universally despised because they interrupt the user experience. They should never be used [...]
Archives are often something that are left until the last minute and I don’t think anyone really considers how best to create them. Designers often throw together a chronological list of posts and leave it at that. However, I stumbled across a design by Kyle Meyer today that’s a brilliant solution to the archive problem. [...]
Co-founder of the Web Standards Project, Jeffrey Zeldman is one of the best known Web development personalities. His landmark book Designing With Web Standards, released in 2003, was updated almost two years ago. I picked up a copy the other day after reading many recommendations, so is it still relevant five years down the line? [...]
All of the information we create and use is either on your computer or in ‘the cloud’ of servers on the Internet. The choice between these two usage patterns is an interesting one. My email is all online via Gmail (although I access it via a desktop application), but everything else is on my own [...]
On the new version of Thunderbolt, there are three news feeds in the right column of several pages. We take news from other sites using RSS, then display it for users to read. However, there’s one problem; if you rely on other people to provide a service, then you can’t guarantee that it will always [...]