Comments for Mad Web Skills

Comment on What features should a commercial CMS have? by Mikey McCorry

Mikey McCorry — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 04:25:06 +0000

@Luke: That’s a good point; I didn’t think too much about it from the marketing point of view. EE is marketed mostly as being flexible and developer-friendly with a wide range of addons, so I can’t say that it’s misrepresenting itself.

Regarding your second post, that’s also true, except EE gets so much developer love without even going into the price. I just found myself constantly running into limitations that couldn’t be solved without laying down more money for addons. I guess this only applies to the first time you use it.

For what it *does* do out of the box, it does it wonderfully, but I was just surprised it was missing a lot of basic functionality.

Comment on What features should a commercial CMS have? by Luke

Luke — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 04:08:53 +0000

As far as price, high price doesn’t equal good software or that you get lots of software. There is plenty of shit software that sells for a higher price than good software (the main competitor of Photography Orders is a good example).

Comment on What features should a commercial CMS have? by Luke

Luke — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 04:06:57 +0000

I guess it just comes down to what it is marketed as.

As long as it’s clear up front that all these modules cost more, I think it’s fine to sell a bare bones CMS.

Comment on “UX Professional” may be a bullshit job title, but they’re still needed. by Milan

Milan — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 20:42:28 +0000

Yeah and still I thing UX designer is not a real job. Its joust… you know guys who suck at design, suck at programming… they joust suck in web development and cant get a job beacuse they are not skilled and dont know to design or to write code. So they say Im a UX designer. And they do job that every idiot can do… and try to make it look hard and complicated and its easy, every web designer can be UX designer and every web designer knows UX design… UX design is bullshit job title its something that shouldnt exist at all!!

Comment on Javascript NES emulator by Mike Z

Mike Z — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 13:09:21 +0000

This is awesome! Yay Super Mario at work!

Comment on Bounce your way to goodwill by Luke

Luke — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 01:52:55 +0000

That is indeed a cool tool

Comment on Accessibility by subscription? No thanks. by Martin McKay

Martin McKay — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 16:34:25 +0000

Hi Michael,

I am the CTO at Texthelp, the company who own Browsealoud.

This is not a commercial break – I just want to set out a couple of things as we see them .

Browsealoud is not meant to be accessibility by subscription.

Website owners must make their websites accessible.
W3C have created a good set of international standards that have been adopted nationally in many countries. Browsealoud will not turn an inaccessible site into a AAA site.

Browsealoud is good quality AT for people who cannot afford it.
It works best with fully accessible sites and we encourage accessible design.

There are built in AT tools on Windows and Mac that will read text, but they are not too friendly to use, and do not get used for that reason.

There also are totally free tools around to read the web, but they are not nearly as good as commercial text readers in terms of voice quality, or features. (this is why commercial AT exists)

Browsealoud is free for the end user, and has the quality and features of an AT product that would normally cost the user a few hundred dollars.

It is provided mainly for public service websites. It is designed for people who cannot afford to buy good quality AT.

It will not alter your sites W3C accessibility rating – and we do not suggest that it does. It is simply commercial AT with a different business model.

Comment on Accessibility by subscription? No thanks. by Mikey

Mikey — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 06:51:39 +0000

Luke: I agree the actual idea of “click to read” is pretty cool, but it should be tied in to something native. Probably back when Browsealoud started, it was a pretty good idea, but betting against technology, just like betting against Jean Claude Van Damme, is always a wrong bet.

Comment on Accessibility by subscription? No thanks. by Luke

Luke — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 04:22:43 +0000

Agreed Mikey. BrowseAloud will die. Accessibility options are only improving and it’s in the interests of OS makers and browser makers to have better accessibility.

I guess it’s kind of a cool service, “click a button and it reads the content of the page”, but I looked at some of the sites that use it and it isn’t obvious how to use it at all. Big fail imo.

Would be interested to know the pricing

Comment on A streetview car named “Google”. by Steve

Steve — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 14:22:49 +0000

Pictures anyone? Please take a pic next time