Don't hide your scannable content
Scanning of text is something every user does when he or she looks at a website. That's why I find it so annoying when websites try to hide their content purely for design purposes.
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Web conventions 101 - Scroll bars
Scroll bars need to look and function like scroll bars. This is equally true for flash as it is for normal html pages. Again trying to do it any other way can lead to poor usability. I'll show a very bad and a reasonable good implementation.
Web conventions 101 - Search boxes
Search boxes should be placed at the top of a webpage. That's just one of those web coventions which shouldn't be broken. If you do this, this in general leads to poor usability.
Popups: What are they good for?
This is the second article in a series on web usability and accessibility. In the first article I talked about one of my top web annoyances: opening links in new browser windows. Popups are very similar in nature but can sometimes serve a useful purpose.
Regular expression testing using javascript
A long time ago I made a Javascript tool to test regular expression patterns with. I had plans to expand it's functionality but never got around to it. It's still a nice demo so check it out.
Why opening new browser windows is such a bad idea.
This is the first part in a series of articles on web usability and accessibility. Opening new browser windows when clicking on links is one of my top web annoyances. I will try to explain why it causes problems for a lot of users and how to best avoid these problems.