Design

Worst Nav Bar Ever?

There’s probably something worse out there somewhere, but I certainly haven’t seen anything this bad in a long time. This is the bottom nav bar on all the pages at Roget’s Hyperlinked Thesaurus. You actually have to use almost all the sections of the site before the navigation starts to make sense. Oh, and that …

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Bad Form Assumptions – Again!

I just learned that an email address I’ve been using for ten years, and through which I’ve received thousands of messages is invalid and just won’t work—at least according to this ISP’s validation script!

Row-based designs

I wrote an article for the new online Web design magazine, 13things, entitled “Horizontal Flow: The Magic of Row-Based Design.” In it, I examine what the effect of column-based design has been, advantages of using rows to recapture the organizational effects of the grid that were largely lost when we abandoned table-based layouts, and some …

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