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Using select boxes to convey choice
August 29th, 2008 at 4:02pm | 2 CommentsIf you live in Canada, you would have to be living under a rock for the past few weeks to not notice Bell‘s agressive rebranding campaign. They’ve been peppering nearly every medium with their ‘er’ ads. From bus stop signs to television ads, you can’t really escape it. Curious what they had done with their ... read more »
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WordPress 2.5 “Zeldman” Coming Soon
January 22nd, 2008 at 12:42am | 2 CommentsOriginal illustration by Sergio Villarreal. There’s been quite a bit of buzz about the redesign of the WordPress Admin for the 2.5 release due in March, that I can only assume will be code named “Zeldman”. Although the small improvements with each release have helped, the WordPress Admin has needed some attention for a while ... read more »
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Redesigned and more
November 5th, 2007 at 4:58pm | 7 CommentsIn a few weeks it will be exactly a year since I redesigned this site. It really has become an annual event. This time I’ve redesigned it but also rebranded and added new features. Rebranded I really liked the domain brad.touesnard.com. I mean come on, firstname.lastname.com is pretty sweet. That is unless your last name ... read more »
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Redesigned and refocused on usability
November 24th, 2006 at 12:42am | 5 CommentsThe last time I redesigned this site I had a lot of ideas that had been gathering in my head, on little notepads, and in e-mails that all went into the design with no real focus on a set of design goals. And it showed. The text sizes were strange, the graphics were heavy and ... read more »
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Web Usability: Down with select boxes
March 23rd, 2006 at 11:15am | 4 CommentsBefore After I hate clicking on select boxes to reveal only two or three items to choose from. It bugs the hell out of me. Why? In order to select an item, you have to click to reveal what’s in the select box, then click on the item to choose. That’s one extra step than ... read more »
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RWYN – A user-friendly alternative to drop down menus
February 27th, 2006 at 11:30am | No CommentsRWYN (pronounced are-win) is an acronym for “Reveal What You Need.” It is a menu I came up with while I was sharpening my DHTML skills and building DHTML into TreeView. I was using TreeView for a menu that only had a node depth of 1, which doesn’t really warrant a tree structure at all. ... read more »
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Pasting Multiline URLs into Firefox
January 26th, 2006 at 11:53am | No CommentsEvery day I get e-mails with long URLs that are split onto multiple lines and I have to reconstruct the damn URL by copying and pasting every damn line one at a time into the location bar of my browser. Well today I had enough, and as always I turned to my good friend Google ... read more »