Please if you make web pages or web apps you really need to know this please
A haiku by Kip Robinson

It is so easy
to make forms much friendlier
with the label tag

Protip: don’t forget who your friends on Facebook are.

CharlotteGigs.net is a mostly worthless spam machine that masquerades as a local job board.  I signed up for their site when I was looking for a job, and now I can’t seem to get their junk mail to stop coming.  I have clicked the “unsubscribe” link at the bottom of their spam several times.  I continue to get this message upon doing so:

Your request to update your email options has been received and is being processed. Please note that it may take up to 10 days for the changes to take effect as there may be email messages already in progress.

Protip:  If you have to show a message like this to your users, you are doing something wrong.  Come on guys, ten days??  What are you doing, writing the request on a notarized letter and mailing it to Nigeria?

Here is a message I got after logging into a website recently:

** NOTE ** Using a colon (“:”) in your password can create problems when logging in to Banner Self Service. If your password includes a colon, please change it using the PWManager link below.

Protip: If you are designing any kind of login/authentication system and you find that you need to give users a warning similar to this, you are doing something wrong.

On a much more nitpicky side note, why not just make “PWManager” or “using the PWManager” link to PWManager?  To their credit, at least they didn’t say “by clicking the PWManager link below.”

A word of advice for the next time you go furniture shopping:  check your pockets frequently, to make sure nothing has fallen out while testing out a recliner or couch or reclining couch.

I learned that the hard way last weekend at Hickory Furniture Mart, which is kind of like a mall, except it only has furniture stores in it.  After I got home and realized I didn’t have my cell phone, I had to go back and look through dozens of stores.  After spending the better part of an hour searching, I found it buried deep within the cushions of a recliner.  The lady in the store said that this happens a lot.  So... don’t let it happen to you...