Posts under Tag: rant
We Are the Experts, So Start Treating Us Like It: A Web Developer’s Lament

I don’t know about you, but I’m tired of clients treating web developers like brainless code monkeys. After so many years as a part of a legitimate and growing industry, why are web developers not yet treated like experts? Why do clients demand the final say on the presentation and mechanics of a website? Web developers are the experts. We [...]

By Jamie with 3 comments
Your Splash Page Sucks

You heard me – it sucks! I’m especially looking at you, Flash developers. To be fair, yours isn’t the only one that sucks – all splash pages (enter gross generalization here) suck. The internet is about content, and splash pages, especially those containing the ubiquitous and oh-so-irrelevant ‘Flash introduction’. The more clicking a user has to do to get to [...]

By Jamie with 2 comments
Click here to kiss my…

If I had to choose my top pet peeve relating to the world of website design, it would definitely be that one, annoying, lazy, useless phrase to indicate a link: click here! Click where? Why here? Why not there? Where else am I going to click? What am I clicking on? Where am I going? Those are just a few [...]

By Jamie with 3 comments