Microsoft recently announced on their blog that they will continue to support their now 8-year-old  browser IE6 until 2014. For readers unfamiliar with the reasons why this might be news-worthy,  it is mainly because we web designers have wasted half our lives trying to get our client’s websites to display correctly in this antiquated browser [...]

This week I spent a while looking at captcha scripts with the purpose of finding the ultimate one that will both be secure and user-friendly. I am regularly called upon by him indoors, who could be described as a ‘typical user’, to explain why forms won’t submit for him. To me, the process is straight-forward, but to the ‘typical user’ it’s not always obvious and I have had to save both the online transaction and the actual computer from the wrath of his anger.