There's nothing more shameful, nothing more embarrassing than finding that one of the links on your page is dead. If you're going for the quaint amateur-ish designer look, then let the links on your site lead to 404 errors. I can't think of any better way to lower a visitor's opinion of your competence...

• content

I'm a hardcore web guy. I dive straight into the mucky muck of tags and CSS and server stuff and I love it that way. I code each piece of HTML or CSS in a page by hand. I use two tools when doing web work: The GIMP for all my image needs, and PSPad for absolutely everything else, and with these tools I manage two highly complicated web sites. At last check, they have over 700 documents (pages, downloadable documents like PDFs) between them.

• content

What I know about JSON can be summed up easily, placed on a post-it note, and stuck to your monitor as a (somewhat) helpful reminder. What I know about JSON is this:

• javascript

I've been exploring the way Internet Explorer 7 handles things, and I'm overwhelmingly disappointed. IE7 suffers from the same "Microsoftitis" as most Microsoft products - which means that it behaves the way Microsoft believes it should, and not the way the rest of the world does.

• browsers

In an earlier post, I described why I thought it was brilliant of Apple to release the Safari browser for PC. Now that I have a little more time to elaborate, I will do so.

• browsers