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Author: Davin Granroth

  • Comment problems

    FYI, I updated this blog software to the most recent version of Movable Type, and the comment features aren’t working right. No matter what I set the preferences to, every comment submitted is help for approval — which I don’t really want. I’d prefer that the comments just went up and if there is something…

  • Beauty of a web site

    Tractinsky, N., Katz, A.S., and Ikar, D.

  • Fitt’s Law Applied to the Web

    Fitt’s Law Applied to the Web by Scott Berkun, Microsoft Corporation. The basic idea in Fitts’s Law is that any time a person uses a mouse to move the mouse pointer, certain characteristics of objects on the screen make them easy or hard to click on. The farther the person has to move the mouse…

  • FUNNY: Weapons of Mass Destruction

    Go to Google.com, type “weapons of mass destruction” into the search field, and click the “I’m Feeling Lucky” button. Note, though, don’t click the link about the t-shirt at the bottom of the page. I got pop-ups about online gambling.

  • Thinking about affordances & convention in web design

    I wrote the following intending to include it in an email newsletter I send out. I had Chey read it and it seems the word “affordance” used in this way is a bit too esoteric. I’ve started trying to rewrite it, starting from the user-testing paragraph, but I’m having trouble writing about this concept without…

  • Nice horns

    If you cross your eyes a little until the photo blurs, the horns kind of look like arms or legs and the body looks like some kind of contortionist act. Or maybe that’s just me. And, yes, I have this habit of crossing my eyes when looking at images.

  • Fleeing monkey narrowly escapes three-year-old zoo-goer

    So we watched Shipping News a couple nights ago. I enjoyed it. In it, the protagonist occassionally mumbles headlines to himself. So, I made up a headline. Feel free to comment with your own.

  • How HTML and CSS is like an egg hatching.

    A discussion has been building in a web developer community email list I receive. The discussion looks at the field of “professional web developer/designer/etc.” One of the posters wrote up a long response to many comments; one of the things he said struck me as true, but a shallow observation. It was this: Stuff like…

  • Photo: Two Cute

  • Dave Agnew’s web site

    Dave Agnew has been running his own business, Dynamic Control Systems, LLC, for over a year now (how long, Dave?). He’s a hired-gun, so-to-speak, designing and building control systems for conveyers, lifts, and other material handling equipment in the automobile/manufacturing industry. He’s the guy behind the machinery that, for example, takes a car door and…