Dave Child over at I Love Jack Daniels has written about his techniques for blocking referrer spam on his blog. He’s kindly posted some rewrite rules for blocking the most common spam crawlers. Assuming you’re running mod_rewrite, all you need to do is paste the lines into your .htaccess file and the scumbags should get [...]
Via Pink Socks, 404: Lazy Programmers / File Not Found. Reminds of a site we were called in to revamp a while back – at some point about a dozen pages had been renamed, and some well-intentioned person had created 404s by hand, typing in the File Not Found blurb in each one of the [...]
Last month Cory Doctorow gave a talk to Microsoft’s Research Group, trying to convince them that Digital Rights Management systems don’t work, and are bad for society, business and artists. You can read the transcript at dashes. Let’s hope it didn’t fall on deaf ears. Right, I’m off down the pub…
Finally, web designers’ favourite A List Apart returns, with a couple of particularly good articles on CSS kicking off the new-look issue. Ah, I remember when it was just a mailing list…
Lots of cool CSS tricks to jazz up your lists. Also via Zeldman, designer Ryan Carver explains the hows and whys of his XHTML/CSS site for Lee Jeans. Woo-hoo, big corporations using standards!
Those of us that care about designing to web standards have long debated the best way to include Flash in valid XHTML pages. Unfortunately one of the best methods, the Flash Satay approach, seems to produce a lot of different results depending on the user’s browser, OS etc.. To try and figure out exactly where [...]
I will never surf with a little ship’s wheel in the corner again—Netscape is dead. Long live Mozilla.
It’s been around for a while, but still worth linking to is 404 The porn cannot be displayed. For more amusing parody and genuine 404 pages, check out Area 404 (I rather like–if that’s the right word–kinky clown 404).
What’s the best way to present headlines and introductions to longer articles on news and portal sites? Victor Lombardi’s been pondering this, and has compared a variety of common methods over at Noise Between Stations – Blurb Gallery.
As usual, there are lots of interesting web design stories over at Zeldman. Two that caught my eye: One solution to the old problem of preventing spambots harvesting email addresses from web pages has been to encode the address using javascript or character entities. Aside from the accessibility problems associated with relying on javascript, it’s [...]
Just been reading about an interesting Photoshop .png gamma bug. Not encountered it myself as I tend to output my pings through Fireworks, but it’s worth remembering.
Having been woken by the cat (who seems to be going mad — to pander to her penchant for grass, she’s got a little flowerpot in the kitchen with grass growing in it, so she can have a bit of a nibble without going outside. As if this isn’t bad enough, she now insists, very [...]
Memo to script kiddie spamming wankers: I don’t use formmail! I’m getting really pissed off with script kiddies poking around looking for a copy of formmail here at outofthetrees. For those that don’t know, formmail is a perl cgi script, written by a pillock chap called Matt Wright, that takes the information entered into a [...]
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