Cormac Moylan

I was expecting to find a good few companies customising their logos today for the day that’s in it. Of the twenty or so sites I checked, only Google, Yahoo, Youtube and MSN had lived up to my expectations. I was expecting companies such as Bebo, Facebook and Apple (especially Apple) to have some [...]

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Plans are afoot for a webmaster pub event to take place in the Harbor Master, Dublin on the 9th of February from 7.30 (PM of course).
Some of the attendees to date include:
Louie from Eire Web Design | ping
Richard from Redcardinal
Mark Walsh
Dave Davis from Redfly Marketing
James Larkin from Forbairt Media
Allistar from Logon
Eoghan McCabe from Contrast
Ken [...]

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I can’t believe Adobe haven’t introduced some form of auto-save. I lost around three hours of work today because Flash had a hizzy fit when I changed fonts on some text. Grrrr!
Apparently there is a third party extension to add this functionality though, so all is not lost. But still!

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Traditionally websites are designed within two columns. The left column for navigation while the right contains the primary content of the site. A lot of established sites such as Amazon and Ebay take this traditional approach and for the most part it works without any problems.
Your average Joe Soap user expects to see a [...]

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If I’m living in Ireland, why do I need to choose an American state?

Thanks for the crap user experience, Crucial. This type of form behaviour really gets my goat. If I’m allowed to pick any country in the world then either disable the requirement for me to choose a US State or provide me with [...]

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My most recent post discussed the inclusion of spammy links to the default download of Vanilla, an Open Source forum client.
A public outcry wasn’t far behind and now the links have been completely removed from the download. Horrah for people power!
Matt Mullenweg, Wordpress founder, came in for some abuse from Techcrunch and others after he [...]

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