How to make fonts using Microsoft’s free tool!
The free tool: eudcedit.exe (Just type that in your run box)
can edit fonts, and also make them from scratch.
Archive for March, 2006
The do’s and dont’s of user info collecting on the web.
Users fill out many forms day, whether it is just loging-in, signing-up or something else the user has to repeditivly enter in his or her infomation. The worst example that I have found is Microsoft, lets look at the steps to get a free usb drive from them. (The same thing applies to pretty much, if not all forms that Microsoft has.) You need to sign in with your passport. Ok, I have entered all the infomation except for the answers to the questions, many times before, so why can’t they just ask me for the answers insted of asking me for everything again. I have seen some sites where they try to help you either by having a checkbox that you can check to say if your billing is the same as your postal address, or you get the same big form but some of the info that they already have on you is there. Lets start with the first thing in that sentence: the checkbox to say that your billing is the same as your postal. The problem I have with some of the site. Is that I paid via PayPal, and see no need for a billing address. Thurermore, I am contantly asked for my phone number, (as a required field) but I see no reason for them to ring me. An example is an online advertising company, who asked me for my phone number. (I was a publisher with them) But I could never see them calling me, as they had my email, and I live in Australia so it would cost a bit more for a call… Read the rest of this entry »