June 29, 2009
Day 1 of Week Off
Have this week off — my first since Christmas — and guess what I did?
Nothing.
Nothing at all.
I played a couple hours of RollerCoaster Tycoon 2, and read Equal Rites (Pratchett) again but otherwise did nothing to tackle my backlog of e-mail, the many items on my todo list or the piles of housework.
I'm going straight to hell.
June 16, 2009
Some Little Tidbits
Firstly, CSSbake was very recently featured in a Smashing Magazine post on 40+ Helpful Resources On User Interface Design Patterns, which is a huge boost to CSSbake as a website and growing resource for webmasters. Huge congratulations to Ben, obviously, and to Melissa, who've both been putting in all the work lately to keep it ticking over while I lounge in pregnant misery. In other news, I have been desperately trying to roll out some updates to my own site in what little free time I have, and ... read more »
June 15, 2009
Your Tutorials Aren't Helping
The success of rev.iew.me's launch has opened my eyes to a multitude of websites I never knew existed. Unfortunately, it has also made me realise that the age of the dodgy tutorial is not over, and now more than ever younger webmasters are "educating" each other with terrible code for the sake of scraping in a few extra visitors....
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