Sometimes the simplest tools are the best kind. Web developers/designers absolutely require a utility to resize a browser window so they can see what their projects look like under certain resolutions. The best utility for this, which unfortunately does not work in any version after Windows XP, is Sizer. But what if you’re running Windows 7? Or a Mac? Or...

Four months ago we were given an opportunity to preview the new design of MSN.com. I personally gave it the thumbs up because it was my opinion that the new design was modernized in all the right ways. The old design was very "Web 1.0" and I considered it good that it was ditched for something more streamlined and useful. The new MSN.com design has now...

Yahoo, yes (that Yahoo) made some significant changes to their main web site. While this angered some, to those I say this: Yahoo is not Google, and I’m glad it’s not. If you’re expecting Y! to be another Google clone, it isn’t. And it shouldn’t be. The first thing I do on Yahoo is switch over to the compact view and change the...

Ah yes, Internet Explorer 6. It has more holes than Swiss cheese, is exploited easily and is slow as molasses. It doesn’t even do tabs. You might be thinking, "What moron would still use IE 6 when you could use 7 or 8?" Corporations would, that’s who. Windows 2000 is still used widely in the enterprise environment. And as anyone who uses...

I have been a long-time reader of both UseIt.com and Web Pages That Suck. Both concentrate on what’s called web usability. Web usability can be defined by answering a simple question: How easy is it to use your web site? A large portion of ease of use comes from your selection of colors and fonts. Color: Foreground and Background Black on white is always...

There’s a reason I used the odd-cased HoTMaiL in the title because that’s the way it was originally written out. You’ll notice the capital letters are HTML. Hotmail was spelled that way many moons ago to really drive home the fact it was HTML (meaning web) based mail. Microsoft this week decided to roll out the new-and-improved interface across...

To this day I see a lot of web sites, be they blogs or otherwise, that are just… wrong. As in designed poorly. More often than not the audience is the last consideration most people have when designing their sites when it should be the first. These links have nothing to do with software and everything to do with knowledge. Web Pages That Suck I am a...