Archive for the 'Thoughts' category
Abuse of forms
0 comments 18th of April, 2008 Håvard Thoughts WWW
The most common way to communicate through web pages is through the use of forms. At the same time there are an amazing number of forms that has been designed without the user in mind. What should you as a web developer think about when designing forms?
Naked Day: April 05
0 comments 5th of April, 2006 Håvard Thoughts WWW
The thought behind «Naked Day» is good, but it’s only good in theory. So why remove the stylesheet?
Steam Roller Google
0 comments 27th of March, 2006 Håvard WWW/Google Thoughts WWW
Google is moving forward with a speed rarely seen before. Their never-ending ability to conjure up successful web-services that no one even knew they needed is their strength. Is it all good?
The value of validation
0 comments 15th of March, 2006 Håvard WWW/Site specifics Thoughts WWW
The arguments for validation according to the W3C Markup Validation Service and the W3C specifications are many and strong. So why then doesn’t most sites validate?
Flipping the Funnel, by Seth Godin
0 comments 31st of January, 2006 Håvard Thoughts
A short review of «Flipping the Funnel» by Seth Godin. Introducing the online-telegraph as a replacer for the jungle-telegraph.
Google vs US Department of Justice
0 comments 20th of January, 2006 Håvard Thoughts WWW WWW/Web Search
Who should have access to the information that you leave behind when you’re browsing the Internet? Who should decide this? What are the implications of giving out this information?
Why not Wordpress 2?
4 comments 18th of January, 2006 Håvard Thoughts WWW
I’ve read some blogs online about why people haven’t made the upgrade from Wordpress 1.5 to 1.6. In general it seems like people don’t think it’s worth it, and to a large extent I agree. It’s now 19 days since Wordpress 2 was released and a quick look around tells me that upgrading is lagging [...]
Fear versus Anxiety
1 comment 8th of January, 2006 Håvard English General Thoughts
«[...] 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 [...]
The state of things - in general
1 comment 5th of December, 2005 Håvard General Thoughts
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 [...]
The New Face
0 comments 22nd of November, 2005 Håvard Thoughts
It didn’t take long before Seth Godin had to give away a signed copy of the The Big Moo. I felt bad that I didn’t see the blog post earlier, a signed copy of The Big Moo will always come in handy. I guess now I’ll have to buy the book. And this is the [...]