Yearly Archives: 2008
Jan 11, 2008 by Matt | Posted in Design
Don’t you hate it when you print a web page, only to have a bunch of extra junk that generates several pages worth of ads, RSS icons, and navigational links? What a waste of ink (it costs you $8000/gallon, you know).
Computers aren’t really suited for reading long documents, so it’s common to print overly long web pages for later reading. I do it now and then, though I mostly try to read things online (I’m not going to sit through a 40-page eBook though). Plus, if you’ve penned the ultimate guide to removing grape jelly stains (or whatever, it’s hard to think-up good examples), people will want to print it out to refer to in the future.
What you need is a print stylesheet. No website should be without one.
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Jan 10
I’ve read a lot of blogs in 2007. More than any other year probably. 2007 is the year I really got into blogging, and discovered social media sites like Digg and StumbleUpon. As a result, my list of subscribed RSS feeds has exploded and…
Jan 9
AJAX, or Asynchronous JavaScript and XML, was probably the most-hyped web programming technique in the last two years. It’s no surprise, as it enables you to do a lot that couldn’t have been done just a few years ago. AJAX is being used in…
Jan 8
Here’s something interesting to think about: Should you simplify the design of your search fields? Looking at various sites, like IMDB and Amazon, I’ve noticed that a lot of sites feature drop-down boxes allowing you to pick what areas of the site to search…
Jan 7
Looking for some AJAX scripts? MiniAjax is a gallery of “nice looking simple downloadable dhtml and ajax code.” The one-page site shows 62 (to date) entries for various useful scripts. There are star-rating systems, modal dialogs, heatmap generators, poll scripts, tabbed interfaces, and more.…
Jan 6
It depends. Theoretically, the less images on a page the better, as your pages will load faster (and put less strain on your server). There are two types of images. There are template-level images and post-level images. Template-level images exist in your blog’s header/footer/sidebar…
Jan 4
I was looking at Technorati yesterday, just checking for links to Webmaster-Source. According to Technorati yesterday, the large blog about the publishing industry, GalleyCat, was linking to me. Yeah, right. First of all, I’d have noticed an increase of traffic. Second of all, I…
Jan 3
Hehe. I told you all to update your copyright notices as soon as the new year started, and I forgot to update mine! I just noticed it today.
Jan 3
No one actually likes waiting. Some of us are just better at it than others. The internet seems to be a parallel reality where time passes differently, slow at times, fast at others. Web pages seem to take eons to load, no matter how…
