It seems like the Facebook engineers add another javascript and css file to their pages with every new feature. As of today, viewing the Facebook homepage loads 36 javascript files from Facebook and 4 more from advertisers. In addition to these 40 files, there are 12 css files. That’s a lot of files! If you’ve […]

In February, I made the tough decision to leave the incredible Yahoo! Answers team and dive full time into a venture of my own. That venture is a new site called Feed Each Other (feedeachother.com). Today, the invite only beta period is over and the site has been opened up to the public. (That means […]

I’m talking about “ajax” links, or “javascript” links. Anything that results in an action while still letting the user remain on the current page. Let’s call them “scripted” links here. Scripted links and non-scripted links lead to drastically different user experiences. We should make them look different too. Clicking a non-scripted link causes the browser […]

Today’s CSS specification allows for the browser to distinguish between a few different types of links. Two such types are regular links and visited links. a:link { } a:visited { } By default, visited links are purple. This is a concept that we’re all very familiar with, both as web developers and web users. It’s […]

As I work in my living room day after day, I find the analogy between writing a website and writing a novel jumping out at me. I’m constantly tinkering with things until they feel just right. Writing and re-writing. Asking friends and family for feedback. Tweaking. Starting over. Trying to keep an eye on the […]