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Posts for February 2004 (3 entries)

Re-designing comment forms

19th February 2004, the wee hours | Comments (66)

Here’s a question for you: why, in almost every comment form you see on the Web, do the Name, Email, and URL fields come before the Comment textarea?

The primary goal of a comment form is to collect a comment. So, why is the comment textarea almost the last thing the user gets to see?

Can you think of a good reason?…

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Dynamic @import CSS files using PHP

3rd February 2004, mid-afternoon | Comments (35)

Safari users, who until recently were greeted with a “Downloading 1 of 94 images” message when viewing this site, will be pleased to hear I’ve discovered the joys of combining PHP and @import CSS files — the result of which is that I’ve been able to shrink my weather-banner-CSS from ninety-five static rules (ninety-five!), to two dynamically generated ones…

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Providing feedback on comment submission

2nd February 2004, terribly early in the morning | Comments (12)

If you’ve posted a comment to this site before now, you’ll know that after hitting the submit button you’re redirected to see your newly posted comment, nestling amongst it’s friends, in loco…

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