Archive for January, 2008

…at least from my point of view.
Typography (or whatever you want to call it; the way letters are handled)
If it’s unreadable, your visitors will not be able to read anything, the more readable your website is, the more they will be able to read.
One of the most common cause of problems is “liquid layout”. Say […]

I have always hated public transport.
I prefer walking or going by bike. Alas, bike is not always feasible – sometimes the weather is not good, or there’s nowhere to (safely) park the bike, or I am somewhere where I don’t even have a bike. On the other hand, walking is always available.
Walking enables you to […]

As I mentioned in the previous post, I needed a CAPTCHA algorithm. As I couldn’t find anything simple and usable that would do what I want (ie follow the basic principles of captcha creation (readibility for humans, and hopefully unreadibility for machines)), I decided to write my own. The purpose of this was just to […]

In wordpress database, column comment_status is of type enum(’open’, ‘closed’, ‘registered_only’). But for some reason, ‘registered_only’ is never used anywhere…
I use disable comments plugin, which is excellent because it is very simple. Here is the relevant part:

$wpdb->query(‘UPDATE wp_posts
SET comment_status = "closed", ping_status = "closed"
WHERE DATEDIFF(NOW(), post_date) > ‘ . $days);

And if you want it to […]

I didn’t plan it. I just woke up today and knew I’d have a new blog in the evening.
As for colours, a great deal of thinking went into that. Yesterday I read a lot about readability on the web. I think it’s something very important that many people completely miss. First, Verdana and Georgia, that’s […]

Fear not – this post is not gonna be in German.
I left work early on Friday and headed for the Student Agency bus. The movie Corpse Bride was pretty good and before I knew it, I was in Vienna, just few hundred meters from the famous Prater. Buying a “Stadtplan” was an ordeal, but I […]

A year ago I predicted that 2007 would be better than 2006, and indeed – it was.
And I have plenty of reasons to believe that 2008 is gonna be even better.
Today I went skiing, and it was grrreat. The slope was not steep at all, but carving skiing makes it plenty of fun even […]