Various thoughts, speculations and rants about technology, Web design and the Internet by Dao By Design’s Ryan McLaughlin.
In addition to running a Web design and development business, I also run numerous “side project/hobby” sites and blogs that appeal to various interests of mine. Without exception they all suffer from copious amounts of spam — and some of it might be coming from you without your knowledge.
This spam is virtually all “link building” spam. This means that — unlike e-mail spam — the intention of the spammer is not to get you to visit the site or …
The following is The Cracked Guide to Fonts. Yes, that Cracked — the magazine we read as kids that was the Gobots to MAD’s Transformers. I’ve recently started following their site, and absolutely love its completely whacked cracked sense of humour.
It’s nice to see someone from the graphic design industry poking a bit of fun, as it’s well needed — as lets face it, there’s no shortage of designers who take themselves far far too seriously. From the …
A friend of mine just forwarded me this video by The Poetic Prophet (AKA The SEO Rapper), and I enjoyed it so much that just had to break my DBD blogging silence to share it here.
The song lays out, with some slick verse, the importance of Web standards and proper design — both for how it relates to the look of the site, and the way the site gets indexed by search engines. Check it out and see …
Just stumbled upon this list of humorus taglines for the newly “officially named” Windows 7 and thought I’d share. The list contains more than this, but I wittled it down to my top 20:
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Hey all – just wanted to let everyone know about what essentially amounts to a virus being spread via Facebook.
If you get a message on your wall reading:
“hi XXX, howdy?? lisen i got a new friend here..shex kinda new here..maybe you can give her a lil tym so she can enjoy here?? not forcin u but u can chk out =)
her profile is
http://www.facebook.com.profile.id.17lgot00.jn95fk.e77c98037.com/facebook/index.php?id=s6jpp299o&auth=0008339&cyua=xc89ck0u4p“
When you click on the URL it brings you to what appears …
Bored? Fire-up your copy of Firefox 3 Beta 5 and type about:robots in the address bar.
Funny stuff – but I think the FF3 devs could be using their time more productively, namely, to get the damn thing out the door already! 
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One of the least satisfying bits about my job is watching would-be Internetpreneurs come up and attempt to pitch the Next Big Thing, which is just like the Last Big Thing, just renamed and re-domained – with a bit of reflection added to the logo.
Such is the nature of the industry, I suppose, but with the exception of a few great leaps (Wikipedia, YouTube and blogging in general) – I find most of the crap touted under the Web …
Hate Internet Explorer? Take a stand against IE6 browser
Well, my loathing of Internet Explorer has not lessened, but I have begun employing a much easier way of notifying my visitors about their poor choice of browsers.
Before …
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