J.Crew Follies December 17th, 2008 @ 8:10 am PST
I am astounded by how bad the J.Crew website is. The .jsp filenames indicate that the site is Java. It is tragically slow and the senseless implementation of AJAX makes it near impossible to use. It’s almost 2009! How can there be so many horrible shopping cart systems on the ‘net? And for such a […]
Parsing PHP in CSS October 1st, 2008 @ 5:09 pm PDT
Dynamically process your css scripts
WordPress Theme August 19th, 2008 @ 2:36 pm PDT
About WordPress themes
A List Apart Web Design Survey August 1st, 2008 @ 9:22 am PDT
WordPress Tags March 26th, 2008 @ 8:47 pm PDT
I was very happy to see that the WordPress developers included the ability to “tag” posts. For a long time I’ve been using my own bastardized version of Bunny’s Technorati Tags to add tags to this site. A few days ago I decided to bite the bullet and convert to using the tag system that […]
Blue Cross of California Member Registration July 10th, 2007 @ 6:52 am PDT
The new member registration form at the Blue Cross of California website has what I consider to be several major bugs. A user’s username must contain a number and a letter. Because this is not exactly a ‘net “standard”, they need to do a better job of bringing this to your attention. When you submit […]
A Rant about Keywords and URLs June 22nd, 2007 @ 6:28 am PDT
A day or two ago I was pinged by a co-worker from my previous job. He wanted to know why, during its recent redesign, I didn’t include keywords in the URLs of the pages on a site I originally built a long, long time ago. I told him that there was no concrete evidence anywhere […]
MTV Redesign April 29th, 2007 @ 11:08 am PDT
MTV completely redesigned their site. They switched from all-Flash to (gasp!) all-HTML. Brilliant.
Photoshop Tutorial – Polaroid Images December 13th, 2006 @ 9:45 pm PST
In which I explain how to make digital photos look like old analog ones
A Short History of DavidGagne.net November 1st, 2006 @ 8:58 pm PST
I have been planning to add an “About” page to this site for about four years. Everybody who’s anybody has an “About” page. People who visit and know not what a blog is must wonder what this site is “About”. I just never seem to get around to it. I have no idea what this […]