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.

CSS Parent Styling

“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.

Click Here

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.

Facebook

You all know I dislike it, but I just thought I’d reiterate my disdain for Facebook. It’s a ghetto of bad design choices with a pretty UI disguise slapped onto it.
Why would you lock a log-in button after it’s been clicked? Tell me that.
I just accidentally pressed enter while trying to log in, but cancelled the request […]

Desktop Metaphors

I’m thinking of a desktop metaphor; See if you can guess it. I’ll bet you can’t, because it’s not the kind of thing you usually see or hear about. How about I just tell you anyway.
Hot folders. We see this kind of things on web siter and forums all the time: a “hot topic” usually turns […]