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. Read the rest of this entry »

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 ;).