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Category Archives: Web Design

The [Sorry] State of Web Design

Hidden Marketing

Filed under: General,Web Design— arlen@ 11:43 am

Apple has released their first Intel-based portable. If I could read the web page I might even be interested in buying it. Aside from the general tiny print that Apple always insists on, what fool decided medium-grey-on-black was a good choice for text?

Drupal Complaint

Filed under: General,Web Design— arlen@ 9:42 am

Continuing the journey, I run aground. Have just hit a complete showstopper while evaluating Drupal as a CMS. True, I only discovered it when testing the Event Module, but the deficiency infects every drupal module I’ve seen. They make no differentiation between the ability to create a content item and the ability to publish it. […]

Drupal

Filed under: General,Web Design— arlen@ 9:50 am

OK, so you’ve seen what I have to say about Mambo/Joomla. The only other CMS I’m inclined to try is Drupal (I once wanted to test Xaraya, but they’ve backed off their original excellent design aims, it appears). So I’ve done a test installation of it. The install went fairly smoothly, but there was nothing […]

The Irony of Design

Filed under: General,Web Design— arlen@ 7:28 am

Have in front of me Creative Computing’s guide to Dreamweaver. Someday, perhaps, I’m going to read it. Not because someday I’m going to use Dreamweaver; I own a copy of it now and work with it on an occasional basis. I bought the book in a hurry one day because I’d expected to use the […]

Oops, I Did It Again

Filed under: General,Technology,Web Design— arlen@ 11:57 am

Released some software, that is. Haven’t done it for a couple of decades, and this time I used the GPL rather than my old “Baen Convention” tag. (Yes, that’s not a typo for “Berne Convention.” I christened it in honor of the grand fellow I stole it from, Jim Baen, the SF editor. While editor […]

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