In my latest project, I found the need to use the RadioButtonList which spits out the absolute nastiest HTML to render it unusable (for me anyway). The control gives you to HTML options using the RepeatLayout attribute.

Flow spits out a series of span’s and label’s with BR’s if you don’t specify RepeatDirection of Horizontal. And choosing Table gives you a nicely unaccessible table you can’t format easily. Because of these limitation’s, I have always stayed away from CheckBoxList and RadioButtonList controls.

In my latest project, I need to build a lead system for our sales people. It will work very similarly to the digg.com/spy application, so I took advantage of their model in order to learn AJAX.NET.

I decided to go with AJAX.NET, rather than the new Anthem, just to get my feet wet. I will make it work in Anthem next.

This is what my example will look like:

and after you click the button:

Using AJAX, it went and grabbed a new item, and inserted it to the top row, and removed the bottom row. Digg’s Spy is obviously nicer, but it does essentially the same thing.

A bunch of kids at my work are on myspace, and they spend TONS of time on the website. I spent some time looking at their sites they created, and came to the realization that the basic point is to make something so disgusting and hard to read than your friend. There is no observation of usable design, no understanding the pink text on a green flowery background hurts your eyes, or that if you have 10 videos running at the same time it slows your computer down to a crawl.

I just read a great article from a designer that actually says what (I feel) everyone thinks but is afraid to say.