Web Design

Pay attention to the little things

Schoonzie — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 17:22:37 -0500

This is particularly important to freelance web developers.

A colleague of mine is so thorough with his projects that some would call him a bit anal. But no one complains, because the work rarely ever needs to go back for a second revision. I’d like to think I’m the same. Going beyond the exact scope of a task to make sure the job is done the right way the first time. Sure, it might take a bit more time now, but it will save a lot of time down the track.
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You've got 50 milliseconds, so make it count

Schoonzie — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 17:47:06 -0500

This week I was searching for online backup solutions at work so I did a quick Google search for and clicked 3 or 4 of the AdWords ads that appeared. One of the sites that I came across had a landing page that looked like this:

Rogue Padding Below Images

Schoonzie — Mon, 15 May 2006 01:01:00 -0500

This post is an old post from my previous blog but I thought it might be still useful to some people so I'll repost it here rather than deleting it.

Last week I was modifying the default Drupal Bluemarine theme to incorporate a custom designed layout for a client, and was getting some strange image padding issues when viewing the web site in Firefox. Each of the <img> tags in the web site has about 2 or 3 pixels of padding below each image, and thus causing horizontal white lines between images in the heading of the site.
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