The internet is in the middle of a royal kick-up-the-arse as regards usability and accessibility. Bad sites are named and shamed, great design is celebrated. In all of this, we mustn’t forget the desktop; the desktop sucks too.
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They’ve changed something
Yes, it finally happened. The migration to Wordpress was a success, I’ve tweaked the default theme to look less obviously like the default theme and now I’m free to start the task of re-designing. How long has that taken, eh?
The old blog code is still present, however a meaty .htaccess file should be [...]
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This evening, Stevie artistic placeholder Marshall has been mostly trying to fix his new blog design to work in Microsoft’s broken web browser.
Because I’m a bit bored of working on the TextPattern edition of Resin, I felt I’d preserve for posterity one of his more poetic outbursts. Although this one is clean, my IM log [...]
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Many of you will already have seen the preview screenshots of Microsoft’s next release of Office. Currently referred to as Office 12, it will likely arrive in late 2006.
Microsoft have been busy of late. Windows Vista is finally showing progress (all the features from MacOSX are just about in) and they’ve recently been plugging [...]
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We’re all of thirty days away from CSS Reboot and things aren’t looking so hot at Chateaux Ben.
As is my style, I’ve got waylaid with other things (ooh shiny and so forth) and the design is still very much in genesis. In fact, I’m currently stuck on finding the right font to write Ben Ward [...]
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Ben is a 24 year old Web Developer from Cambridge and is a computing graduate of the University of Manchester.