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Aug 22, 2006
Web Design

Master List of IE 7 CSS Compatibility Improvements

Markus Mielke, a Program Manager on the Internet Explorer team, has published an exhaustively thorough list of changes to IE 7’s CSS support on the IE Team blog on MSDN. Markus also makes mention of the IE 7 Readiness Toolkit, which provides: ...

Aug 21, 2006
Marketing

How to Get Teens to Pay for Virtual Content

My friend Rob forwarded me a link to an interesting article this morning, entitled How to Get Teens to Pay for Virtual Content from MarketingSherpa (gotta love that name): Teens register for free and create customizable online characters called Ha...

Aug 21, 2006
UI Design

Is Ugly the New Beautiful?

Will Pearson - a blind doctoral student, Microsoft MVP, and one of my favorite people in the world - posted a comment on my blog this morning about the potentially adverse effects of creating a splash screen that’s actually too attractive: [M]ost ...

Aug 21, 2006
Usability

The Dirty Business of Software Updates

Jan Miksovsky wrote a while back about the dirty business of software updates. He describes the difficulty rich client software developers have with updating their software once it’s in the field (truer words were never spoken…it’s a serious pain)...

Aug 20, 2006
Web Design

8 Steps to Better Markup

Tantek Çelik of Technorati, Microsoft, and W3C fame published a great article a few weeks back on how to create and serve better XHTML in eight easy steps. I missed this when it first came out, so maybe you haven’t seen it either. It’s all great s...