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This took a whole day for me. Hopefully I can save you the pain. I added quite a few possible search terms here for maximum coverage, so the text may get a bit repetitive. I mean – when I tried to look for a solution, I didn’t even know what to look for – so I tried googling for every symptom I saw, to no avail.
The deal was this: my page has a very large …
Double submit is when a user submits a form on your web page twice (well, technically they can do it more than twice, but you can’t call it a double submit…)
It usually happens when your user double-clicks your Submit button instead of clicking it, but may also happen in two other popular scenarios: your buttons do not provide the user with a visual feedback of being clicked (e.g. when you use an image as your …
This teknoid blog post describes an excellent method of refining Cake’s default error handling.
Quick reminder: by default, if your debug level is set to 0, cake will always redirect your user to the error404.ctp under app/views/errors).…
Photodropper is an excellent plugin that lets you find creative-commons photos in Flickr and add them to your posts.
On my blog, I use those images only to display at the top left of the post. If you like the way the images look here, you might want to make the following change to the plugin, so that it creates the right code (and not center the photo automatically).…
This post is part of the “Be nice to your users” web UI design series.
There are many things that contribute to the rise or fall of your website. Anyone, and Google especially, will tell you that content is king. You have to have good, original content. Your site needs to be original, provide good value for your users, etc etc.
But there are always those small things that can make or break it for you.
Design …
This post is part of a “Be nice to your users” web UI design series I plan to write.
With the whole Web2.0 fluid/milky design that many sites are using now, it became very popular to use shades of gray for the main text color on websites.
Sometimes, this gray can be really difficult to read, especially for people with less-than-perfect eye sight.
Additionally, your users may not have the same excellent screen that you use to …
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