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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?

Every time I start on a new coding project I roam through past projects, hunting for useful snippets of code that’ll solve whatever it is that I’m currently doing in a faster and more efficient way. This goes for both CSS-hacks, PHP-hacks and JavaScript-hacks. However, roaming through all the different projects for just the right [...]

I’m currently working on a web project that will become the company’s online office with all their internal information stored and documentation for each of the projects they are working on. There aren’t many requirements for this project, it just have to work. No hassle. No thinking. Just work. The login is simple, but what [...]

Just for the fun of it, I’ll by trying out Google AdSense on the site for a limited period of time. If it’s a success I’ll keep it there, if it’s just a hassle and nothing good comes out of it - it’ll be gone like the wind in no time!

In the beginning it’ll be located on the left hand side of the site, just below the search-field. If anyone has any thoughts about how it works or if it doesn’t work at all - just let me know.

8 weeks worth of spam is approximately 7795 comments, that’s close to 140 spam comments per day. Chances are that I’ll have to moderate them one by one, as the “Awaiting Moderation”-page times out when trying to bulk moderate the comments. Jolly…

Not long ago, at work, we were painfully close to losing 2.5TB of data belonging to our users due to two faulty disks in the RAID. With two faulty disks in the array, you’ve basically lost everything and with that amount of data, the problem is not having a recent enough backup (which we did), [...]

After updating all my local development installations of WordPress by hand, using wget and whatnot, I figured the time was right to start using subversion instead. And what a treat! Just a simple
svn checkout http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/trunk/ .
and before you know it; your blog is shining and up-to-date. What’s even more nifty, is that you can do [...]

Not long ago, I uploaded latest version of a project I’m working on to my production server at (mt) Media Temple, only to discover that users were kicked out of the system no less than five seconds after logging in.
At first I didn’t know what was causing this, so I went through most of my [...]

I like to think that 37Signals are a couple of guys who’ve understood the essence of how to do business and how to make stuff that just works. These guys practically (and literally) wrote the book on how to make a product and service user-centric and customer-centric. They even wrote a book on how they [...]

A tiny improvement to Google IG, with huge impact on its usability — they’ve added a “Compose Mail” in the GMail-interface. I’m just a bit surprised that they haven’t done this a long time ago.