Monthly Archives: March 2011

French Translations for Common Web Words

Being a Canadian web developer means that I often make websites in both official languages, English and French. A sad fact of bilingual development is that clients usually spend 90% of their time (and money) on the English version of … Continue reading

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Media Temple’s Usability Faux Pas

Clearly, I’m a fan of Media Temple, but today I was shocked by a piece of bad usability on their site when I was looking into signing up a new client for some DV hosting. The client for this new … Continue reading

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An Upload Progress Bar with Media Temple DV and APC

I had a client that wanted to allow users to upload files up to 100 Megs in size but didn’t want to have any Flash on the page. A 100 Meg upload can take 10 minutes for some users and … Continue reading

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