oyejorge

What's more important: Form or Function?

Posted by oyejorge on Friday March 14, 2008 @11:48PM
from the self-post dept.

Recent news surrounding popular blogging platforms has focused on their ability to help users "design" their blogs. And it made me wonder, how much will the availability of themes influence the choice of which platform to use? Is it one of the first things you look at, or do you look into designs only after finding all the other features you want?Below is an assortment of theme selection pages...

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Re:Ask YC: Europeans, how do you protect against falling dollar in Ads... on Thursday March 13, 2008 @12:10PM (#136035)

Question is, are there any European ad systems that would provide enough relevant ads for your site? I'm not saying there aren't, and I would like to see some better competition against google in this area, but I know one of the benefits of Adsense is that they have such a large base of advertisers, they have relevant ads for nearly every topic:

http://basketweavingtips.blogspot.com/2007/09/underwater-bas...

Not to mention more advertisers creates competition.

Re:Ask YC: Development-wise, what do you do that's unconventional and ... on Thursday March 13, 2008 @12:00PM (#136027)

I've been using Crimson Editor for the same reason and have even kept using it via Wine on my ubuntu machine. That doesn't mean I haven't tried other text editors, Crimson just does some things that all the others I've tried don't do... but I haven't tried JEdit yet, it looks promising.

Re:Ask Hackers: How to become the best JavaScript programmer? (q by 12... on Wednesday March 12, 2008 @09:04PM (#135639)

One of the most difficult parts of JavaScript and web 2.0 is getting things to work on all the different browsers. Install the most recent versions of the most widely used browsers: http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp

Quirksmode.org has some really good compatibility tables as well: http://www.quirksmode.org/dom/compatibility.html