Archive for October, 2008

Skin and bones

Monday, October 6th, 2008

You know, for all our pontification and theorizing and building, the fact remains, we’re all just a bunch of gunk stuck onto a skeletal foundation. All of us from kings to the unemployed, from skinny super models to obese computer technicians to beefy bodybuilders…we’re all just skin and bones.
Some of us, though, are more [...]

Unfortunate tool tip

Wednesday, October 1st, 2008

To you non Web developers, there’s a special tag we use when we want to make text pop up as your mouse hovers over something. It’s called a tool tip, and if I’m not mistaken, the practice originated in Microsoft software years ago.
Now, to you Web developers, if you’re using a single header graphic [...]