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Category Archives: Web Design

The [Sorry] State of Web Design

CMS and the art of maintenance

Filed under: General,Web Design— arlen@ 11:03 am

Sorry, it’s been a long week. But I’m back now. Just finishing up a rework of the Wisconsin Chess Association website (the link is to the new, almost-ready-for-primetime version) while in the middle of my chess “busy season” (HS team organization, working one tournament while planning/organizing three more). The chess work will slow down in […]

Hello, old friend.

Filed under: General,Web Design— arlen@ 4:55 pm

<Deep Sigh> Ran in to an old familiar-but-forgotten bug today. Caused by tables, currently inserted into the design unnecessarily by the OSCMS I was using. It has been so long since I’d worked with table-based designs I’d completely forgotten that when you style a table as width: 100% IE/Win decides that you mean more than […]

CMS, part II

Filed under: General,Technology,Web Design— arlen@ 1:28 pm

OK, so you already know I’m not extremely happy with the state of the CMS arena currently, and I promised you an update. Andrew Eddie of the Mambo team and I have been exchanging some emails, each of us educating the other. I find that part of my previous rant was being addressed almost as […]

Content, Content, who’s got the content?

Filed under: General,Web Design— arlen@ 9:23 pm

A while ago Jeff Veen posted a rant about open sourced Content Management Systems. It took a while to get around to finding it (OK, so I was a little busy over the past weeks, sue me) but it resonated enough with my own experiences from playing around with several that I felt compelled to […]

Customer Disservice, Pt 2

Filed under: General,Web Design— arlen@ 11:36 am

OK, this time I’ll give URL’s, because the sites promise to be helpful, they just apparently hate the equipment I’m using. I’m having repairs done to my car, at the moment, which will take it out of action for a couple of weeks. So I need to look for a temporary, and perhaps permanent, replacement. […]

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