Emily Birr's Blog

Attention deficit on the web: Appeasing the hunters and gatherers

Mon Jul 05 2010
Posted by Emily Birr

Much has been made recently about the effects of Internet usage on the brain. Reading web content, according to some, is turning us into a culture of attention deficit disorder sufferers. No longer can we read a web article from beginning to end. Too often our attention is hijacked by a link somewhere along the way.

While much of this may be unavoidable — the web after all is built on the idea of hypertext — there are things we can do as web designers and usability experts to reduce the avalanche of information and distraction on our readers.

IE Bug fix clashes with Drupal Views Cycle

Wed Apr 07 2010
Posted by Emily Birr
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We've just solved a highly perplexing issue on a recent project.  Mysteriously, our lovely transitions on a Views Cycle banner rotator were not happening in IE7 and 8!  Instead of smooth dissolves, the images transitioned suddenly with no effect.

Sounded like a javascript issue, maybe a conflict? But Darko disabled each one by one, and still no solution. He did notice that the transitions worked beautifully by switching the theme to Garland, so something in our custom theme must be mucking things up.