Tag Archives: Good Design Principles

Why you should never use a browser hack…..

It is very tempting for a web designer to just use a little browser hack here and there so that the website can use some funky functionality that is perfectly standard but one of the popular browsers has a bug and cannot cope with it.
Do not do it!
Joel has a entertaining (to me anyway) [...]

The truth about flash websites?

One encounters more and more Flash websites these days and generally they are more annoying than adding value. Even if the site looks presentable, a common complaint I have is that one cannot cut and paste the text to find out more. For example, an address is given but no map, I [...]

Configuration of TinyMCE visual rich editor in Wordpress

See my comments on the TinyMCE visual rich editor in Wordpress.
You can download the small plugin code that I used to configure the editor to show more buttons and refer to the moxiecode documentation to edit if further.

Download to the wordpress plugin directory http://yoursite.com/wp-content/plugins/
Activate the plugin
Switch on visual rich editor as default under options, and/or [...]

A WYSIWYG web based editor that adheres to good CSS principles

The TinyMCE Editor continues to pleasantly surprise me. I have two sites that I am working on at the moment. One needs to be maintainable by it’s owner who has many skills other other than computer related skills. The other is this one! I need to be able to specify styles [...]