Indeed — just a couple lines of CSS and this page would be so much easier to read, as right now you really have to concentrate on the very act of figuring out what is on the page:

Before: http://i.imgur.com/usg7GfW.png

After: http://i.imgur.com/chvY7V5.png

Not always — sometimes they don't (2014), but sometimes they do(2013: http://www.zdnet.com/article/wwdc-2013-announcement-recap-ma...)

Silly question, but wouldn't putting something like Crawl-delay in the robots.txt file (somewhat) help alleviate the situation (if it is respected)?

Or maybe even just block crawling of the entire site except for the homepage?

Google doesn't respect crawl-delay, sadly. They rely on the Webmaster Tools setting, which is unavailable to me as I've described.

The AppleScript example feels like COBOL - in theory it's more readable, bit it ends up being that there is just far more room for error / ambiguity.

I can't tell if you're joking or not - personally, I cringed and felt like I was watching an episode of Silicon Valley for much of that video.

I really like this - I have played with FlexSlider when a responsive slider is needed, but it doesn't resize its slides as its containing element resizes. This does it in a much more elegant manner, and the touch events also feel quite natural.

Yeah, looks better than the lot. Swipe.js, Slides.js, ResponsiveSlides.

The page itself (not the slider), sets a fixed viewport, which means that a user cannot pinch/zoom the page on a tablet/phone.

Here is the code:

  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1, user-scalable=0">

Removing that little "user-scalable=0" should fix it, as being able to zoom in on a page is a nice feature, and shouldn't be disabled unless there is a really good reason.

Well that's not a plugin problem, thats a demo page problem. And I typically disable that when there is responsive/mobile formatting in place

You aren't getting this are you? The carousel doesn't have anything to do with pinch or zoom. If you put it on your site, boom , pinch and zoom your face off. I chose to disable pinch and zoom on MY demo website, because it is already formatted for mobile.

Makes sense - I should have looked more closely. I was checking it out on a tablet since that's where I'm most interested in these controls. I should mention that the swipe behavior of this one is nicer than most, and so I'll definitely be trying it out at some point. I might make a few modifications to better deal with phones, but that's about it.

I dunno, I want to see it work for real. It's whoever wrote the demos fault really. Throw some integration tests up and drive it through its paces. I bet you there's more missing areas.

Right, but the issue is that 99 out of 100 designers will do work for you and not get paid for it, while one will. There are some good links to thoughts about speculative work here: http://www.nospec.com/articles

The other thing that will happen is that the most credible submissions will come from places like Indonesia and Vietnam and Bulgaria. I wonder what freaks pro designers out more, concern over the wasted time of contest losers, or concern over the extent to which offshore piecework designers can drive the prices down for people like Colin who simply don't want the full 40-80 hour project.

I'd prefer someone in this situation find a cheap, young gun abroad and pay them the $500.

Are you sure? I came right into the comments and did a Command+F for "ADHD", as this is what I thought as well.

Know that all types of ADHD aren't the same, and specifically that there is ADHD without the outward hyperactivity. Look up "Inattentive ADHD" - I am 30, and up until this past year I just thought that I had issues with procrastination, lack of follow-through, and was easily distracted.

Does this sound like you?

- Underperformed in school, despite being incredibly bright.

- Frequently didn't complete homework in school.

- Easily distracted.

- Shifts from one uncompleted task to another.

- Frequently skips large sections of text when reading.

- Procrastination.

- Frequently switches jobs

That sounds exactly like me, but I don't skip large sections of text. I also read and think and talk about programming a lot more than I do it. At work I don't have this problem. The work place establishes the focus, which is hard to maintain at home.

Anyhow, why should one get a diagnosis for ADD/ADHD. What difference would it make for a 20 something?

At least for me, just understanding myself better has helped me cope with the difficulties I have.

While I like the simplicity of this, I would recommend to keep accessibility in mind: information put into a data attribute will not be accessible to screenreaders, and they would miss any information stored via this method.

It may make sense to append the label information to whatever is being used for the image's ALT attribute.

I use data-label because i don't wanna limit labels just for images. but for the images, it's a good idea to use ALT attribute. Thanks.