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Blog entries posted during June 2008

• Flog the alive horse instead

  We get told to "innovate" a lot in the web industry. New ideas, practices and technologies are thrown at us on a daily basis, each post in your feed reader as innovative as the next. In terms of design we're looking everywhere but at a screen for inspiration, using all sorts of CSS trickery to enhance our pages for a lucky half dozen, and using the latest trendy real-world texture to make our sites stand out. But if everyone's doing the next innovative thing, how original can we really be?

  Read the rest of this entry, Flog the alive horse instead // Posted on 12/06/08 // 1 comment

• Negative hovers piss me off

  You heard. Web links that behave negatively when you hover over them piss me off. I don't know why, and I know it's not a massively significant issue, but it seems like a lot of people (including myself in the past) regularly fail to grasp the point of a hover/focus state.

  Read the rest of this entry, Negative hovers piss me off // Posted on 05/06/08 // 6 comments

• “The Red Album”: Initial Thoughts

  

  I've only been a Weezer fan for a few years, and to be honest if you told me a few years ago that I'd be into them now I'd have probably laughed at you. After all, Hash Pipe was the song everyone recognised them by at the time. But I've since developed a special place in my ears for their simple, catchy, poppy and sometimes beautiful songs.

  Read the rest of this entry, “The Red Album”: Initial Thoughts // Posted on 04/06/08 // 0 comments