In the early days, back in '98, I found IE4 to be a better browser than NS Navigator. Personally I found the NSN buttons and tool bars to bloated and gimmicky and the cleaner lines of IE4 allowed just that little bit more screen to show.

But here, 9 years later, I have found that my browsing habits changed and they did so a few years ago. I tried Opera because it was new, it was different. I tried Firefox and fell in love with it. And I know that sometimes Firefox has memory leaks, I know it locks my system up occasionally, but that's because I can often run 20+ tabs at a time and regularly do that in two windows... a work window and a leisure window...

But I'd rather have that Fox logo on my shirt than just a plain old E.

I design clean code and I like my browser to respect that.

Labels: browsers, design, development

We just had a link tinker with some PHP code and set-up a little toy so you can surf anonymously... just like a MySpace Unblocker.

Labels: php, tools

WooHoo. WordPress 2.1 Released today. It's named after Ella Fitzgerald, the jazz singer, but hey, that's up to them. 500+ bug fixes and some new features, requires PHP 4.2+, MySQL 4.0+

OK, we're off to do a few installs :)

Labels: CMS, tools

I was just knocking up some 120x60 ad buttons for a clients in-house campaign yesterday and needed a little inspiration, some eye candy to kick-start my creative process. Bookmarking ALL the sites where 120x60 advertising buttons are shown is quite cool but you can do a LOT of surfing to get your inspiration & ideas.

So when I stumbled upon the 120x60 ad button section of the site BannerReport.com I found myself in an Aladdin's cave of ad buttons.

And with that inspiration I came up with these...

Labels: advertising, design

Drupal 5.0 is released today on the 6th birthday of the Drupal CMS.

For those of you who don't know it, Drupal is the CMS behind such as as WestHamFans.org, SpreadFireFox and the homepage of the man himself, Sir Tim Berners-Lee.

Labels: CMS

Mozilla have released an alpha version of Firefox 3 code-named 'Gran Paradiso'.

Download the 3.0a2pre aka 'Minefield' for the Mac, PC and Linux.

Labels: browsers, software, tools

I love the way that in Firefox add-ons the Dictionary add-on for English, if you're English, is the English (British) version whereas plain English is just English which I presume is American and that's just plain rude!

I'm English and my English is English and, yes, British too. So if you spell colour without the letter u and can't colorise without reverting to using the letter z then you should be installing English (American).

I know that the 300 million Americans outnumber the 60 million British by 5 to 1 but that's not good enough reason to assume that the English don't write English.

I love Firefox but in this case it's "Up yours" with 2 fingers!

Labels: language