Author Archives: Ash

I am altogether too enthusiastic when I’m excited. I love music, people, exercise, writing, IT, exploring, push-bike riding, and cooking… But don’t let that fool you; That doesn’t mean I actually do any of these things well.

I’m looking to expand my horizons. I currently own my own business in Brisbane, Australia, but I want to get out and explore the world at the same time. You could say it sounds like a pretty impossible task, and you’d be right. I’ll work out something.

Myspace and Usability

October 3, 2008 – 1:34 am

The social networking site has long been the target of ire and criticism from the web development community. The recent revamp did little more than place lipstick and javascript on top of an already poor foundation.

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New Site; The Interim Look

July 13, 2008 – 6:58 am

After half a decade of running off a custom, and highly experimental content management system, I’ve finally get everything imported into the new system which will drive the site from now on.

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CSS Parent Styling

March 27, 2008 – 11:00 am

“I can’t remove the parent styling such as underline, colour, and strikethrough of the ins and del tags.” crie Pascal, in a frazzle. Not to fear, here’s the ins and outs of CSS debugging.

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Click Here

October 11, 2007 – 3:22 am

Frazzled at being bombarded with link text reading “here” all day, I thought it would be an interesting experiment to list what some of the worst offenders are. If there were ever a lesson in using meaningful link text on the web, here it is.

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