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Håkon Wium Lie, or Howcome, is to many known as a CSS guru and one of the people who played a great part in making CSS a world-wide standard on the internet. Recently he defended his PhD thesis at the University of Oslo.

Not long ago, four weeks to be painstakingly accurate, I bought Mint. Odd as it may sound, but watching the various statistics that Mint, with some additional Peppers, collects is actually quite satisfying. It gives me a benchmark on how good my posts are, to a certain extent at least and I have a better [...]

This is not about server specifics, nor is it about what type of language you use when you create your site. It is about the mere basics of creating a good site. Part I of it at least.

Working with examples will make my point clearer, it’s not at all difficult to understand or copy. Take [...]

About a week ago Seth Godin posted some interesting reading in a blog post called “Understanding the Funnel”. Eleven days later the e-book is out.
I’ve skimmed through it, and so far it looks really good. If you have some time to spare and would like to understand the funnel I would really encourage you [...]

Every day I go through a list of at least ten regular blogs and web sites, most of them post a new entry every day and keep their sites fairly updated. The question that keeps coming back to me is «how?».

We have all seen a whole variety of “Priceless” ads, photographs and such. Today I saw one of the better ones — MasterCard.
Have a look at http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5864097001633806354
Through The English Guy

Ever thought about how your homepage looks in the eyes of new users? According to some new research if your page isn’t visually pleasing from the first look the user get you’re out of luck.
«A study by researchers in Canada has shown that the snap decisions Internet users make about the quality of a [...]

«[...] Fear is a good thing. Fear saves our lives in the jungle, in the streets, and even at the doctor’s office. Fear is one of the most useful emotions you’ve got. Anxiety, on the other time, is a killer. Anxiety is the false fear that corrupts your life. Anxiety is what happens when you [...]

There are a few things that often come back to me, and that I really like thinking about. One of them is how nothing is perfect, another is how nothing turns out like you had expected them to. It seems as if there is a little devil in all things, or following every human being [...]

Not long ago I was invited to Wordpress.com — finally. Although I haven’t really used it much yet I plan to do so in the future. ToDo is a project that, despite it’s young age, has been in my mind for quite some time and I’ll continue to work in it in the future.
However; [...]