29 Jun
[image by k4rl] I LOVE Fireworks. It is a great program, with an easy to use, fast interface, and tons of great features. Photoshop is awesome for photo and print editing, but Fireworks is the best image editing program for web stuff (interface design, icon design, etc). At work I use an iMac with OSX Continue reading →
27 Jun
Let me start by saying that Piedmont Natural Gas is only one of hundreds of big-company websites that are still terrible. I’m sure they have great intentions, but I will use their site to highlight things that are wrong with many websites in general. The current Piedmont Natural Gas Website in Firefox at 1024×768. 1. Continue reading →
13 Mar
I used to be a Piedmont Natural Gas customer, thank God I’m not anymore. My wife and I bought a house outside their area and so had to switch natural gas providers. I updated our address with them and canceled our service. The Surprise Charge(s) A month later I noticed a strange charge on my Continue reading →
29 Jan
Not sure what’s going on with Bank of America’s site today, but it wouldn’t come up for me for a few hours. Now it looks like it’s back online, but without any images. What was your experience?
I was trying to find a script that would add/blog YouTube videos automatically whenever I added them to a playlist. I couldn’t find such a thing. But what I did find is Smart YouTube. This plugin is a perfect WordPress plugin because you just post the URL, add a ‘v’ after the http, and it [...]
I always want to share great youtube videos with my much younger brother-in-law, but I always ran into the issue of trying to find clean youtube videos. So I started a site last year, then neglected it for almost a year, and now I’m committed to posting often. I lost focus of what it was [...]
Facebook is constantly rolling out new features and “updates,” but often those changes are unwanted. The way that the photo viewer worked before was just rock solid. It was dead simple and there was nothing to change. But… Rolling Back Facebook Changes? If only Facebook would release new designs and features with the option to [...]
We officially launched Qpicker.com, a cool tiny site that chooses 1 thing for you to watch from all of those in your Netflix Queue. It seemed like we were always having the conversation “What should we watch on Netflix?” We have over a hundred titles in our queue and can never make a decision. When [...]
Sallie Mae’s last site design was really terrible. Their new design looks better, but is still horrible to use. Here are a couple examples of Sallie Mae’s horrible UX. Account Summary From this page, we are reassured that we are on “Account Summary” in no less than 4 ways. Navigation highlight Breadcrumb Page title Section [...]
