ISSN 1496-3221
February 8, 2001
Tales from a close call with web page personalization. Epicor sent me a flyer promoting their eFrontOffice software with a custom url that embedded my full name into the subdomain. That’s sort of cool, but it wasn’t the part of the experience that impressed me. It was the following message that greeted me at the … More
December 29, 2000
Useful “Page Not Found” Error Pages If you’re even the slightest bit concerned about the experience viewers have when visiting your humble excuse for a site, take heed. The last thing some poor, unsuspecting sod should ever see is a 404 message. No matter how careful you’ve been to redirect obsolete pages, support ancient, if … More
April 6, 2000
The best and the worst thing about Netscape 6.0 or Mozilla M14 or whatever it happens to be called when you download it, is the skins. Because the skins (or chrome as it’s referred to by Netscape) are comprised of a billion tiny gif images, the entire package takes up way too much drive space … More