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Creating a better 404 by Tim Marman

Jeff Atwood rants about the typical 404 page , saying "the average internet user has no idea what 404 means or what to do about it. To them, it's yet another unintelligible error message from the computer. Most 404 pages are unvarnished geek-speak." Jeff...

Be positive in your dialogs by Tim Marman

Raymond says that dialog boxes are not the place for logic puzzles . I ran across a configuration dialog box that had the item "Turn off Feature X". This is a negative-sense checkbox, which turns your dialog box into a logic puzzle. Checkboxes should...

Free Fonts! by Tim Marman

Seth Godin confesses his love for typefaces , calling them "design in a little tiny box". Seth points to Urban Fonts and dafont as two great, free resources. I'd like to add my favorite to the list: Abstract Fonts . They have one of the slickest interfaces...
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