I usually reserve my rants for twitter, but I found this situation pretty interesting.  Not everyone, but a good portion of people use twitter now.  Through the huge popularity of twitter escalated short urls.  Okay, to my situation.

I saw the movie “The Hangover” last night, and it was so funny….I will probably see it 3 times before it comes to DVD.  Since I live my life in constant movie quotes I posted one of the quotes to twitter, “Tigers love pepper…..They hate cinnamon”.  No big deal, but then I received a reply from someone who I do not follow and this person does not follow me.  I check the twitter profile, as I always do, and it seems it is a spam account.  They are advertising some url using a short url, lucky for me I have a short url expander plugin for Firefox.  Their url is http://****vegastrips.com/thehangover.

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I just finished reading an article, Using CSS Frameworks, which is a great read.  I personally do not use any of the listed CSS Frameworks, because a few years ago I developed my own “Framework”.  I’m not trying to be a CSS elitest by using my own framework, because I truly believe a lot of CSS Frameworks are great.  The reason I still utilize my own framework/structure is the reason behind my framework, I develop the way I do to make browser compatibility easier…specifically IE 6.

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I was really upset that I didn’t have the funds to attend PHP|Tek in Chicago this year, but I still have hope for PHP|Works!  I’ve been following the conference ever since speakers started to float in this past Monday.  I have to say the community as whole did a great job bringing/sharing the experience online with the rest of the people who weren’t able to attend.

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After cutting and coding hundereds of sites, I have become very irritated with some common things designers do.  Please note, I’m not saying all Designers, but a good portion.

1. Design a site way beyond 980 pixels, I prefer 960.
2. Use a non-web standard font for content….you (designer) have just forced me to explain to account service and the client why their fonts don’t look right.
3. If the website is only 8 pages, there is no need to design a search feature.  Rule of thumb….if I can click to every page from the homepage, then I don’t need a search.
4. Email layouts: Why would you use nothing but large jpg images?  Please know large emails are labeled as spam.  Also, don’t use too many background images, because many email clients do not like. (you can still use old school background attribute)
5. Email layout width is much smaller than a website, so please do not send me an email that is 1,000 pixels wide….thanks!

The most common response I get when I send a design back to a designer due to one of the many infractions I’ve listed above is, “Your destroying my creativeness”.  No, sir/mam I’m helping you design better for the web.  A good designer can make something amazing, while still working within constraints.

Anyways, I welcome everyone to post their rants, we’re ranting…not complaining ;), about designers and for designers to post their rants about developers…..come on…let it out….it’ll make you feel better ;).

If you haven’t already noticed I’ve got another blogger added to the list, Lorna Jane Mitchell.  As I did with my last post detailing why I follow the other developers I will do the same with Lorna.

I had seen Lorna’s name around the community, but I never really saw her blog until I started learning Zend Framework.  I found her blog post about Zend_DB very informative, even though I prefer utilizing PHP Doctrine.  Lorna is a member of PHP Women and will be speaking on multiple topics at PHP|Tek next week.  Also, she works for, what I consider an amazing contributer to the PHP community, IBuildings.

Alright guys go and show all these developers some love and start following their blogs, but be sure to keep heading back to Jakefolio.com