Respect the Caps…
If you ever find yourself creating registration forms where you allow users to create their own username, please make sure that when the data is saved to the database, that you respect the caps! What do I mean? Well, for the past 3 years I’ve gone by the username iBrent. That’s a lower-case i and an uppercase B. As you can guess, my first name is Brent. Since I’m a tech junkie, and a closet Apple fan-boy, I added the i to give my name a techie feel.
Lately, when I’ve registered for a few new forums, or software beta’s, I’ve used my moniker, iBrent. Some of the registration forms end up ignoring the capitalization, and destroy my identity by changing it to ibrent, or even more absurd Ibrent! Forever will my username be spelled wrong on these forums.
So, just a suggestion to all you folks who work with registration forms, please, please, PLEASE, respect the captilization that people put in their usernames. After all it is their identity we’re talking about. =D
– iBrent