I just visited a web site that had a pop-up window display when the page loaded. The pop-up window informed me that I needed to enable pop-ups to use their site . . .

Um, a pop-up window might not be the best place to notify users that they need to enable pop-ups.

. . . the Chrome icon kind of looks like the old Simon Says game

I don’t usually get excited enough about a computer book that I want to tell others about it, but I just picked up my all-time favorite super-geeky book ever.




Defensive Design for the Web
by 37signals

I’ll call this book an advanced web design book, but you won’t find a line of code in it.

The book focuses on how to make sure people don’t hate you too much when they encounter an error on your site.

I’ve never paid much attention to handling errors because my code is flawless . . . no, that’s not true, I’m just lazy. I just checked my host, and at least a handful of people get a 404 message (that’s computer speak for an error page), so I’m actually excited about reworking the 404 pages on all my sites. If you want too see an error on my site click on this link www.dougroyal.com/stupid-error/, and let me know what you think.