If you want me to press yes when I want a receipt then give me a button that says “Yes.”. Instead the genius that made this pump thought it’s be better to give me a “Receipt/Yes” button.

There is an entire sub-culture on the internet devoted to the strict adherence to the almight W3C “standards.”  I intentionally put standards in quotes because there isn’t any form of universal adoption of these recommendations by the major browsers just yet.  While each iteration of Internet Explorer, Opera, Safari and Mozilla move us closer together the differences are still staggering in some cases.

I just read Jakob Nielsen’s “Top-10 Application Design Mistakes” and thought I’d post some notes on it here and encourage everyone to read it since it is a great summary/categorization of the common issues.  Why am I qualified to comment on this list?  Well, I’ve made a lot of these mistakes in my own work and had to figure out how to avoid them the hard way!

Apologies and empathy seem to be losing any value because the expression itself is largely meaningless.  I thought I’d cover what actually constitutes an apology in this entry because there is a big difference between apologizing and saying you are sorry. 

An apology in its Greek roots means a speech of defense.

There are thousands of high quality Wordpress Themes available on the internet. In fact, there are so many that only the prolific number of sites powered by Wordpress could even come close to re-using them all. The theme I was using was supposed to be temporary when I put it in place in mid-2007. Here it is 2008 and I was still on it. I had to change it to give my site it’s own look.