Time once again to delve into one of the mysteries of Web development; namely, Web designers and developers who can spend many many hours on a site, yet still forget to define a background color for their pages. As usual, let’s take a look back at last month’s offenders. For each of these sites, I [...]

I missed April: too much work, not enough time. This month’s entries will be short and sweet. I’ll also be emailing the sites this month (assuming I can find some form of contact information for them). And, for newcomers, here’s the deal: when using CSS to control your site’s design, it’s important to realize that [...]

So, April 5 is CSS Naked Day, so I’ve turned off the CSS on the site to show off its hot naked lack-of-design. Update: All back to normal now. Technorati Tags: CSS Naked Day, CSS, web standards

Ah, yes, it’s that time once again: the magical trip through various sites that haven’t done much in the way of testing and assume that everyone has their background color set to white. But first, as usual, a rundown of the sites from last time to see if any corrections have been made. Of the [...]

In my ongoing battle against lazy designers, coders, and testers, here’s another edition of "Define Your Background Color." A big thanks to Dan for helping to spot more offenders. Nothing is better than getting like minded individuals together to discuss topics of web design. It’s a great idea and I fully support it. However, if [...]

Time for another edition of "Define Your Background Color, Dammit!" The game where I pick a few Web sites that haven’t done their testing. For illustrative purposes, I’m including screenshots this time. As I’ve mentioned in previous posts on this subject, the problem is that these sites are assuming that you haven’t changed the default [...]

On Monday, December 5th, I attended An Event Apart in Philadelphia (along with some of my co-workers, Joe, Dan and John). I thought it was quite useful: we had Eric Meyer talking to us about CSS and HTML (read his after event thoughts), Jeffrey Zeldman on content, branding, and Jason Santa Maria on design (read [...]

I should really make this a more regular feature, because it annoys me soooo much. I wrote about this topic previously. The problem is that there are sites that forget to define the background color of their pages, because their quality control sucks, perhaps. Or they hired agencies that don’t give a crap. Or maybe [...]