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Image Rotators

Zeldman recently mentioned several image rotator scripts for displaying random images on your pages. Hivelogic’s Image Rotator 1.5 and Matt Mullenweg’s A Better Image Rotator accomplish the task well. But two problems worth mentioning is their inability to display images of different sizes, and use a different alt text for each image. This site has […]

Catching Up

Jeffrey Zeldman has just changed his default stylesheet, and surprisingly removed his branding logo at the top of the page.         I came across Noel Jackson’s site a few days ago, interesting blog especially if you consider how young he is. Nothing much to write about lately, all I’ve been doing is […]

www.GaryV.Com

What’s wrong with Gary Valenciano’s site? I was trying to get the lyrics to “Natutulog Ba Ang Diyos” but it took me more than 10 minutes to figure out their flash menu. And you have to read the popup window that opens upon loading, containing several instructions on how to get to the lyrics section. […]

Macromedia redesigns

Macromedia has just redesigned, sporting a new, clean look with excellent use of typography. Unfortunately, most of it is in Flash, which makes me wonder what the site serves to mobile/PDA and text-only browsers.

This is insane

Working with HTML entities and PHP forms plus stupid browsers with extreme amounts of coding dumbness is making me go nuts! htmlspecialchars(), stripslashes(), my forms are going berserk. Some text just want to go away. I should go and sleep now.