Why Short Attention Spans on the Internet Are a Good Thing
A lot of people nowadays love to blame the internet for what they perceive as an ever-growing epidemic of short attention spans. Apparently this causes a horrible lack of focus that will ruin your life or something similar.
Granted, people tend to jump around a lot, going from site to site and perhaps only spending a few seconds at each. But is this really because of a lack of concentration ability?
When Online Help Documentations Go Wrong
Online help documentations seem to be becoming more popular. It used to be where you’d go to help in an application and you’d be presented with documentation that was installed with that app. Nowadays, you’re often just forwarded to a website. This has its advantages, for example it can be updated without the actual application itself being updated, but this should never be the only documentation available.
If You Can’t Beat ‘Em, Don’t Do It (Even If You’re Better)
There’s another problem with valuing ideas so much–they’re easy to steal. Er, excuse me, “borrow.”
The COMPASS Test – A User Interface Nightmare
Grow up.
I‘ve decided to take a quick break from my Making Code Poetry series after reading this little flamewar. In response to it, I have just one thing to say: Who really cares?
No internet, no computers, no blogging…What was I thinking?
Yeah, I’m going camping tomorrow through Sunday. This means no internet for like 4 days. No computers, either (too bad I don’t have that MacBook Pro yet).
Real SEO
We all know that Google’s constantly changing around their search algorithm, and we all want to know what it is. Now I don’t know the numbers used, but I can tell you what they’re doing: Getting good, quality content where it belongs.
So after much consideration…
A few months ago I started a thread over at SitePoint asking opinions on what majors people felt were the most helpful in graphic design and web development careers. I got well over one hundred responses with suggestions ranging from general arts to business to skipping college all together. I heavily thought upon all of this and after much consideration have decided to go with none of these suggestions.
YUI Grids CSS framework considered harmful.
Note: Please realize that this post was written in 2006, and a lot has changed since then–including YUI Grids. I am not too familiar with how the framework works now, but I am told it’s much better than it was when I wrote this article. Also note that I am not against all CSS frameworks and am even known to use them occasionally myself.
So yesterday I published a post defending frameworks, saying that if they helped you out: use them. Well that was before Dustin mentioned that Yahoo’s created a CSS Framework. I checked it out…and after having done so, I now take back some of what I said yesterday.
