I am happy to release another free icon set: RSS Cheese. The set contains 4 high resolution RSS icons that come in four sizes: 512x512, 256x256, 128x128 and 64x64. Icons are completely free and can be used without any restrictions in any type of project inlcuding commercial projects.
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A few days ago, Jakob Nielsen posted an article in which he recommended displaying passwords in plain text instead of masking them. You should read the article if you haven't already. I've read some of the reactions on the Internet and I think people are so passionate about this topic. Here are a few of my thoughts on this problem.
10 UI Design Patterns You Should Be Paying Attention To is the article I wrote for SmashingMagazine. In this article, I described ten interesting patterns (such as Lazy Registration and Progressive Disclosure) that you might consider when designing web sites and web applications. There are over 15 examples with descriptions.
You can read the article on SmashingMagazine.
I rarely see drop down menus that behave like drop down lists, but I really like them. I noticed, however, that people often use JavaScript to achieve this effect. Actually, there is a simple way to do it only with CSS.
As you might already noticed my site is often down for a couple of minutes and it repeats too often. Last time (two weeks ago) I contacted technical support and they told me they will fix the problem. They didn't contact me since then. And they didn't fix it, of course. I think is unacceptable and totally unprofessional that they didn't eliminate the problem for two weeks neither inform me about the progress on this one.
