Long-time readers, particularly those of you who post comments now and then, are probably aware of some ongoing problems I've been having with my commenting system. Commenters have had to use Markdown instead of HTML, code snippets were removed, esc
A couple of weeks ago a friend of mine meticulously prepared a newsletter and sent it out to their subscribers. I was one of those subscribers, and imagine my surprise when in my inbox I received an e-mail stating Dear NAME, have you seen our lastes
Every day you visit one of them. The pages, which don't exist any longer, have moved to a new server or have never existed at all. Once you've missed your intended destination, either through a bad or outdated link, or a typo in the page you were ho
From Smashing Magazine, "WeÂ’d like you to create a beautiful, functional and user-friendly 404 error page for your own web-site. WeÂ’ll collect the most creative, usable and elegant solutions and review them in one of our next posts."
In the year 2000, I put the word "differentiation" in play, just as 20 years earlier I'd put the word "positioning" into the business language. It was the subject of a book I wrote entitled Differentiate or Die.
Well, as many of you may have noticed, DF has been down most of the weekend. I woke up Saturday morning to find a nice Internal Server Error page on Design Float and promptly proceeded to freak out. After restoring the previous nights backup...
Process is about getting from point A to point B. In the case of printing, it’s about getting from file to the delivery end of the press with the least amount of aggravation and error. That’s why a predicable and repeatable process is so important.<
There is nothing like arriving at a hard core 404 error page. The beauty of the default Apache non-existent page error is just amazing. However, people could find that one frightening so let's learn how to do a friendlier 404.
There are few things that make me really angry. Almost nothing. There are however a lot of things that causes me disappointment, irritation and an urge to send people furious emails. I am tired of websites not tested with the most common browsers.
I've helped a few people over the last week who have run into issues with VS 2008 where it would immediately crash when the IDE was launched, or upon creating new projects (usually failing with a "Visual Studio has encountered an unexpected error
Excelente galeria que recopila varias capturas de interfaces bien diseñadas y estructuras, de varios tipos: formularios de acceso, de busqueda, pagina de error 404, headers, footers, etc...
Software frameworks provide developers with powerful tools to develop more flexible and less error-prone applications in a more effective way. Software frameworks often help expedite the development process by providing necessary...
Reddit provides an example of poor usability during the site submission form. They try to make fun of users' errors. If the user enters a wrong CAPTCHA the website displays a "your letters stink" message.
Webmasters that are hosted by DreamHost woke up to a nasty billing surprise this morning after DreamHost made a major mistake with their billng system, their entire customer base on Credit Cards Payments was billed a total of $7,500,000 overnight. W
Giving users meaningful error messages is very important but, maybe, even more important to improve the user experience is to provide a solution to the error that is rising the error message.
Explaining errors is one of the basic concepts in usability for the web. It is as simple and obvious as telling the user what was wrong and how to solve that problem.
My feature code was throwing an error today. I had event receivers attached to custom lists, and got this error:
Cannot insert the value NULL into column ‘Name’, table ‘[somesharepointcontentdatabase].dbo.EventReceivers’;
Read on for my solution.
You can achieve a lot of things with a .htaccess-file. You can make your own custom 404-error pages, redirect pages, rewrite pages, block IP-adresses and more. In this first .htaccess tutorial, I will explain the custom error pages.