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10 Reasons Websites Should Not Play Music

I do a lot of surfing, looking for design inspiration, coding tips, or simply something to amuse me. I often start a surfing session using StumbleUpon or Wikipedia and then simply see where my interest leads me.
Sometimes, even in 2009, it leads me to a website that starts playing music or talking [...]

Let clients use the WordPress Dashboard

In which ZigPress talks about introducing clients to the finer points of managing their sites after launch and handover.
Part 1 – It’s Great
Although there are a number of ZigPress client projects that use WordPress as a base, this was done mostly for ease of maintenance by ZigPress, not by the client (most clients have been [...]

Website Language Selection

You will all have visited websites that present their content in more than one language – and they allow you to select the language in some way. Right now I’m struggling to find examples, but here are some of the more common options:
1. A special front page presenting language options
2. A series of flags [...]

Languages and Hybrid Design

Here’s a new one for the debate regarding semantic tableless CSS-based design versus old-fashioned tables-for-everything HTML.
Let’s say you design a great site with floated DIVs, negative margins, semantic tags, all driven by well-formed CSS free of browser-specific hacks. At this stage you’re quite proud of the code quality, and all is well with your world.
Then [...]