<P> Fight

I have a draft post regarding my experience with the Ruby on Rails site, but I am fighting the Blogger web-based UI as I try to add images. Blogger puts everything in SPAN tags for no good reason, then adds empty spans as spacers. Call me old-fashioned, but I prefer a sectional DIV that contains the style, and P tags which inheirit. I find myself missing LiveJournal's "simple" HTML.

In the future, I may move back to hosted TextPattern or WordPress, but I chose Blogger because I don't have to deal with style, code, or hosting issues. It's also as free as LiveJournal, but allows for AdSense.

Mobile Firefox (Fennec)

I just tried (and crashed) FireFox Mobile Fennecwhatever. While it clearly imitates the iPhone's mobile safari, I am glad the Mozilla foundation is embracing the mobile market. I believe that the personal computer as an internet access terminal is reaching its peak and is approaching a decline in favor of netbooks, iPhones, Kindles, and whatever Newton-ish device Apple resurrects that everyone else imitates.

With Google Chrome injecting actual competition into the market, it will be an interesting year in browsers. The Mozilla Project has been pretty stagnant as of late, and I've been halfway expecting the announcement of Mozilla ShadowCat, a lightweight version of Firefox, that runs on the Iguana engine. Like Camino, but for Windows.

Welcome To "Your Design Sucks" Formerly 200found.com

This blog is my sounding board of my rants and raves about design. Herein, I will criticize poor design, and showcase examples of good design.


When I say "design," I am not referring to exclusively web design. The line between software and the web are blurring, likewise between the web and print advertising, and marketing in general. As such, I will not differentiate here. White space is important in every aspect of our lives. Usability makes or breaks products and websites, alike.


I hope you get some value out of this.