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• 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 Mobile Web - Does anyone really care?

  With the iPhone finally being released soon here in the UK, the mobile web is "about to explode", according to various sources. Explode in a good way, I presume. The question is, with the arrival of this landmark in the evolution of the mobile web, will us web-people have to reconsider the way we deal with this technology.

  Read the rest of this entry, The Mobile Web - Does anyone really care? // Posted on 13/11/07 // 1 comment