The option to leave comments on this site has now been disabled. A new version of the website is coming and the pain comments – from time to time – causes with movable type (in terms of comment spam, server load and likewise issues) is really not worth the trouble. You will quite possible be able to leave a comment once the new version is launched, but until then sorry, no comments.
Sometimes web developers forget, that they are not typical net users and develop websites and applications for themselves rather than the intended mainstream users. Too often we let ourselves slip into a “geek to geek world”, and forget, that many of the sites we create are not for geeks, but for common users. Here are the top three mistakes made across a large number of mainstream websites, as I’ve seen them.
The web change constantly and content moves around. This article gives a brief overview of the various different options available to you, to make a redirect. Redirects come in two major flavors - clientside and serverside.
Clientside redirects reside within the HTML documents on the server. There are three basic ways of making these:
The manual redirects most often used when you really, really wants the users to know, that the page has moved. Instead of doing an automatic redirect, you create a common html page, which informs the user that the page has moved, and provide a link to the new page. In some cases, this redirect-type exists in combination with a timed auto-redirect that upon timeout do the redirect.
So, I was actually using Microsoft Windows for quite a while. My first windows was Windows/286 which was nothing like the current Windows, but it was okay somehow. Today I just realized that I haven’t really been using Windows on any of my own machines and even though Vista was released three months ago, I haven’t seen it yet. It is sort of funny, but since switching to a Mac, I’ve been spending less time keeping the machine running – debugging, tweaking and doing other odd stuff – and more time doing actual fun work at the computer – like expanding my portfolio at istockphoto.
I hate comment spammers. I really do. The SCode captacha works, but the load the evil spammers create is pretty bad in itself. The comments were disabled a few hours, but they’re back now, after some counter measures has been applied.