Richard’s Ramblings

Don’t tease me with a splash or intro page unless you’re running an adult website. They serve no purpose other than wasting my time. Scale it down and add it as a feature on your home page. (screenshot)

The way I see it, there are three basic types of experienced individuals involved in web development: the developer, the web developer, and the web designer.
Granted, we’ve all seen (or been stalked by) individuals that don’t fit into any of the three categories; members of this fourth group are the people that give the web [...]

Dear Christie Hefner:
“Once a Playmate, always a Playmate” is the official Playboy philosophy regarding the lifetime relationship between Playboy Enterprises and its centerfolds, an implication that the girls are always on stage, representing Playboy at all times. Their wholesomeness, their actions, their demeanor all reflect on the image of Playboy, both positively and negatively.
Stephanie Adams, [...]

One of my regular visitors read the article about the no-talent web designer and decided to let them know about my observations. Looking back, I wish he hadn’t.

Just because you have a knife doesn’t make you a surgeon. Just because you have a wrench doesn’t make you an auto mechanic. And, just because you have a computer, Photoshop, a lot of time on your hands, and an Internet connection doesn’t make you a web designer.