Monthly Archives: February 2006
Bashing head against wall
I firmly believe that a great percentage of web development is about blind determination. Those moments when you without relent bash your head against code which insists on having one elusive error. In these times the usual crutches of loud music, coffee, nicotine and chocolate just do not cut through the agony of a parsing error.
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User centric
Who would you say was the most important person in any website project? the designer, developer, client or the user? Really, when it comes down to any project the most important person is the user. Without users websites are pretty much pointless. Yes, they look pretty and show how great you are at CSS and might be making the client go “oh and ah”. When it comes down to it though as with most things the proof in any website is not the pudding but in use. Therefore, this makes the user the most important person in any website.
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Tag it
Tags seem to have been around for ages, but really they have only in a minor form. Tags on the web were once confined to your bookmarks and now seem everywhere. I admit to being a bit of tagoholic. This is probably due to a slight anal retentive [ insert school girl sniggering here ] disposition. I am one of those people that really does organise everything. I seriously think it might be something you are born with, like the strange desire some men have to wear their trousers up around their arm pits. Erm or something like that. So tag it, use it, sort it, rinse and repeat.
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