Archive for the ‘usability’ Category

updating moopop for mootools 1.2

Monday, June 23rd, 2008

After several requests to update the script, I finally had time to make the update. In fact the script was under production for more than a month running over mootools SVN builds. The update also comes with a couple additions suggested by users, and also some optimizations thanks to the new mootools 1.2 element storage.

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wordpress 2.5 - good idea, bad idea

Friday, April 18th, 2008

Blog software upgrades are becoming more frequent than real content on this blog, so I guess it’s a good time for a small review on WP 2.5. Let me start by telling this will be a mix on ranting, praising and random bashing, so get tight on your seats and let’s begin.
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usability 101: adding a global “back to top” to your site

Sunday, November 11th, 2007

If there has to be one single usability issue I dislike from most sites, it is the “back to top” feature. Ugly links spread all over the place clogging the visuals of your site. It is for this reason that some months ago we developed a global unobtrusive back to top for Operator11.
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moopop: “unobtrusive” popups with mootools

Sunday, August 12th, 2007

I know, it’s quite ironic to call unobtrusive a popup window. However there are times when clients, coworkers or maintainers demand for a “simple” popup window solution. It’s for that cases that I built moopop some months ago and I’m now sharing the code.

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the perils of editing a wordpress theme

Monday, July 30th, 2007

let me tell you something: editing a wordpress theme using the wordpress interface plainly sucks.

And no, it’s not a problem of being a newbie in wordpress, it’s just that there’s too much duplicated code revolving on the structure, at least on the default Kubrick theme that is supposed to be the one that shows off most of wordpress “features”.
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