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Creating a better 404

Jeff Atwood rants about the typical 404 page , saying "the average internet user has no idea what 404 means or what to do about it. To them, it's yet another unintelligible error message from the computer. Most 404 pages are unvarnished geek-speak." Jeff lays out 5 ways to make the 404...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 12-31-2007
Be positive in your dialogs

Raymond says that dialog boxes are not the place for logic puzzles . I ran across a configuration dialog box that had the item "Turn off Feature X". This is a negative-sense checkbox, which turns your dialog box into a logic puzzle. Checkboxes should be phrased positively. "Use Feature X". (The only...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 05-01-2007
Free Fonts!

Seth Godin confesses his love for typefaces , calling them "design in a little tiny box". Seth points to Urban Fonts and dafont as two great, free resources. I'd like to add my favorite to the list: Abstract Fonts . They have one of the slickest interfaces I've ever seen for font-hunting. In particular...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 10-14-2006

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