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- Ethan Poole
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- Mon 26 Sep 2005 at 23:00
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Today marks seven years of Google, praised by some and criticized by others. Google, the search engine giant who has been organizing the vast Internet's contents into one location, is slowly making its way towards one of the most powerful companies in the world. Some believe that they're aiming to take over the world, while others just enjoy their great services.
While Google may seem like the perfect company, if you haven't read the How Much Do You Trust Google? series you really should take a look:
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Alas, …
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- Frans de Jonge
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- Tue 20 Sep 2005 at 6:37
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It was expected for some time, but now it happened. Opera 8.50 is available for free. If you were always put back by the advertisements, you lost that excuse.
The menu structure should be nearly similar with the exception of registration related issues, so it wouldn't take much time to adjust custom menu setups.
"Today we invite the entire Internet community to use Opera and experience Web browsing as it should be," said Jon S. von Tetzchner, CEO, Opera Software. "Removing the ad banner and licensing fee will encourage many new users to d…
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- Ethan Poole
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- Wed 14 Sep 2005 at 15:53
HTML emails are crippled by the lack of standard rendering across the hundreds of email clients, desktop and online. Web designers only have to deal with maybe five web browsers, at the most, but it's ten times worse when designing HTML emails. There is absolutely no standard methods to render HTML emails, and each email client does it differently.
With the lack of HTML support, you'd think that CSS emails would be completely out of the question. Campaign Monitor has published an article about using CSS in HTML emails
According to this…
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- Ethan Poole
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- Fri 9 Sep 2005 at 21:31
Don't Make Me Think, by Steve Krug, is THE book on web usability. It is praised by many web developers as the best book available on practical web usability. Recently, Steve Krug has released a second version of the book, which includes three new chapters. I won't be surprised if this book just flies off of the shelves, as the first edition was very popular.
I have yet to read the book myself, although it is definitely on my to-do list. I checked out the first edition from my library when it first came out, as it was just new in my libra…
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- Author
- Frans de Jonge
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- Tue 6 Sep 2005 at 5:17
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Today the new version of the MyOpera community site launched.
This new version doesn't only feature a completely new design, it also features a lot of new features. There are still forums and weblogs, but now you can also keep a gallery and a website with 300 MB of space to use! (Well, that means customising the CSS, which is all you need to completely revamp the look.)
Users can now organize into groups and record more of information about themselves, managing subscriptions to forum topics is easier, there's a quick oversight of your mos…
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