Alexander Williams

Instead of pre-loading the images from the page in micro, you click on them on the underlying page and they highlight as well as pop into the posting box. (I'm never above borrowing good design.)

perceived performance is more important than actual performance.

Convert bitmap images to vector art.

Don't underestimate the power of survival of the fittest.  And don't EVER make the mistake that you can design something better than what you get from ruthless massively parallel trial-and-error with a feedback cycle. That's giving your intelligence much too much credit.&am more...

It's all about building the type of site and community you want. Control and monitor who participates and how with full administration privileges over site access, submissions, voting, comments, design and more.

Recently there has been a lot of talk about how piracy affects PC gaming. And if you listen to game developers, it apparently is a foregone conclusion - if a high quality PC game doesn't sell as many copies as more...

Presented with a 20-fold increase in selectable items, it's not too difficult to see why traditional keyboard navigation techniques completely break down. They were never designed to handle such complex navigation scenarios.

It’s interesting to read a paper from 15 years ago and get some historical perspective. Xerox PARC had gotten the skeleton design of Web 2.0 functions before there was Web 1.0!

You've Got Movie Sign Resurrected for a Third Year and a new audience, the Son Of...! Film Festival rises from the dead. Bringing you a collection of the strangest digital media you never wanted to see. Part of the Thursday more...

In 1987, Henry Massalin invented the “superoptimizer,” a program that finds the shortest possible instruction sequence for a given function. The superoptimizer works by sheer dumb luck: it checks whether every possible instruction sequence up to a given length produces more...

This list contains more than 150,000 free fonts and dingbats. Its purpose is to compile together the best sites. Use it as your main bookmark for finding good fonts.

Let me just come right out and say it: Ballistic Wars, by Wan Hazmer and team at Easy Only! Games, is like Advance Wars with balls. I mean that as a compliment! Thanks to the improvements to the initially submitted more...

Twitter started as a side project and blew up fast, going from 0 to millions of page views within a few terrifying months. Early design decisions that worked well in the small melted under the crush of new users chirping more...