Archive for December, 2006

28 Dec

Clagnut Compares Mac and PC Browser Font Rendering

Clagnut recently posted “Problems with font rendering on Macs”, an interesting and technical look at the issue of browser fonts on Macs.
If you are designing with Mac in mind, as well as other browsers and operating systems, Clagnut’s comparison of Camino 1.2, Safari 2, Firefox 2, and Opera 9 might help your web font choices […]

22 Dec

Airline Weather Drama: Handling Emergency Announcements on Your Site

Our reliance and dependence upon the Internet is clearly growing, as evidenced by recent weather dramas around the world. In England, British Airways website “crashed and burned” as passengers got online to find out whether or not their flight had been canceled due to extreme fog conditions. Thousands of passengers were stranded when British Airways […]

12 Dec

Heat Map Layout of Top 10 Technorati Blogs

ProBlogger’s Darren Rowse points us to Healthbolt’s “Color Coded Above the Fold Composite Map of the Top 10 Blogs on Technorati”, a “heat map” of the most popular blogs layout.
As can be predicted, the hottest spots for advertising points in a layout are across the top and down the right side of a web page. […]

10 Dec

Which Wiki Will Work?

WikiMatrix Allows Side-By-Side Wiki Comparison by TechCrunch is an overview of WikiMatrix, a side-by-side comparison of various wiki programs.
Most people are familiar with MediaWiki, the program behind Wikipedia and the WordPress Codex, the online manual for WordPress users. There are many others.
If you are considering adding a wiki to your blog, you might want to […]