Not that many years ago, usability expert Jacob Nielsen recommended that links should be blue. No negotiation, just make that link blue. In 2006 Nielsen recently decided to pull back that guide line as “today’s users have seen links in many other colors”. It doesn’t matter if a download link (or any other link) is [...]

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WordPress 2.5 was recently released. I’m not your average WordPress user, I develop plugins, test the upcoming releases, and even contribute to the core when I can. Why do I say all this? I hope it will give you an idea where I’m coming from, as I share my first impressions of WordPress 2.5. Writing [...]

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This is part two of my Windows Vista article. Part one can be found here. “It prompts me to allow or deny every two minutes!” Not true! While Vista does have a security feature that prompts you to allow certain things, it is no where near annoying as commercials make it look. Pretty much anything [...]

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We’ve all seen the Mac commercials: PC goes off to be upgraded to Vista and his return is uncertain. And when he finally does return he’s bloated with trial software like that snobby blueberry girl on Willy Wanka & The Chocolate Factory. But is this all true, or just a big exaggeration? In this article, [...]

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A while back I read an article that compared IE7 and Firefox 2 shortly after their releases. I liked the way it was done, but I’d wished that they’d included another popular browser, Opera. So since they didn’t, I am. Comments would be much appreciated. Please note that this article is a work in progress. [...]

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It popped into my head all of a sudden, what misconceptions are out there about Bloggers & Blogging? I did a quick Google, nothing really covered what I was thinking. I’m really looking at feedback in this post as I’ve only got a little to go on in this area, so please comment! Let’s start [...]

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I’ve been blogging for a few months now, so I still consider myself a novice at this. People like Liz & SeanRox are those that have years upon years of blogging & writing experience, they know how it works and do it well. Being new at it means I’ve had a lot to learn, plenty [...]

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It’s not just my opinion that firefox is a great browser. Almost every top list of internet products contains it. It becomes better than IE right after installation. With all that you can make it much better because of a lot of great plugins. That applies not just to web development but to simple browsing [...]

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I was doing some research on some basic rules for people commenting on forums and blogs in general and found a decent article titled Guide to weblog comments and wanted to share since we’ve all seen comments go crazy from time to time on various forums as well as on our own sites or blogs. [...]

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