2004 October

New to HTML? Do you have the beginner blues? Well never fear, HTML Help is here! This site, provided by the Web Design Group provides almost everything that you could possibly need to get started with a Web site of your own.
Tools, tutorials, articles and resources for assistance, there is not a whole lot that [...]

A very pleasant example of what CSS can do for a Web site when implemented with a little TLC. When I looked at the Middlebury College site for the first time, I was definitely introduced to a very pleasant surprise. Easy to read content, not to mention it was simple find what I was [...]

Companies might not put emphasis on designing with Section 508 or WAI in mind. They believe that the number of disabled people is not worth it. The number might be higher than they think. It’s 52 million Americans alone. In fact, moi falls in that category and I love to shop online. Except when husband [...]

The title may sound like it’s about the things not to do when designing a Web site such as creating impossible to use forms. The article takes a look at the things not to do more from a project perspective. A very important rule with any project is to have one consistent owner. Too often, [...]

Are you a Web designer needing to bring in some serious reinforcements, then the Xemion Web Design Company Directory might be a resource that will help to save you bacon. Categorized by State, the directory allows potential employers/clients to locate a suitable Web design firm based on location as well as locale.
When I clicked on [...]

Yes, I’m back with another Drupal plug for everyone. If you are already in a committed relationship with Movable Type or another publishing platform, I’m probably not going to change your mind. But if you aren’t yet married to your current blogging solution or haven’t even made the first move, I highly suggest [...]

If you don’t know it yet, your marketing department will be telling you about it shortly. To get visitors to come to your site via search engine results (SERPs), you need to rank in the top 20 - if not the top 10 - for searches on specific keywords/phrases that your firm is targeting. If [...]

Internet Calenders, it is all that it is cracked up to be? I think it depends on what your needs are for the most part. The first thing to understand is what they can be used for. Syncing events is one common practise. Most people seem to favor Outlook for sending calender items back and [...]

Using IPNetInfo is like having your own Whois service running right from your PC! Totally free and simple to use, IPNetInfo will give you the information you need about any IP address you query in the program.
The best part is that it does not only use one Whois server for its querys either. Nope, it [...]

Man, even with the good stuff out there, something has to come up wrong with it. The Industry Standard reports that Google has recently had to patch a hole that could allow potential script to be run so that hackers can modify the content of the Google search results page.
Well they got that patch in [...]

Right off the bat I will admit that I have covered my share of software programs designed to users to publish photos online. However, not all of them have been Freeware, myVuz Digital Photo Wizard is the exception to this rule. Completely free and simple to use, this software will have you publishing your pictures [...]

Here’s something that most geeks don’t think about. As a contract programmer,
you HAVE to do this thinking; it’s part of what you bring to the table.

Excerpts from ‘You Are Not Your Users’ by Douglas Reilly:

Recently, I was at the Microsoft Mobilized Developers Conference (MDC) where
David S. Platt (author of The Microsoft Platform Ahead) spoke [...]

HTML validating never felt so good! Having used my fair share of validators over the years, it is nice to see that someone finally got it right. The CSE HTML Validator Professional offers everything could possibly want and it is currently in its 6.53 version.
Powerful, yet not too confusing, the overall UI is fairly straight [...]

Web services can be helpful and those offered by Amazon are no exception. It allows the user more control over what is going on. But it does so in a non-threating environment that is easy to understand.
Amazon’s Web Services specifically offer an enriched experience that offers such things as Product Information, 3rd party seller info, [...]

Today I wanted to share with you my big find! OK, maybe it is not that big a deal - it is still cool though. For the Apple Web devs in the audience, you will appreciate the simple elegance of the oXygen XML Editor & XSLT Debugger.
Looks to be pretty straight forward, it is one [...]

Andy Harris gives his observations on a site that he describes as using a beer stain graphic structure. As weird as it sounds, I have to admit that is an accurate description. The Icel Group Web site looks like someone left beer glass stains on the front of the top page. To them, I guess [...]

So what is the best method for Web design from a usability point of view, HTML or Flash? That is a point that Gerred Blyth is going to be discussing at a usability meeting with the London Macromedia Group.
Personally, I think that Flash is super cool. But it is not the most pleasant thing in [...]

“What? What makes voting NEWS???”
Well, here’s the story -
A few days ago, I got an e-mail from CoffeeCup software. Anyone who pretends to be a Web developer in the least will know the name. They’ve been publishing HTML editors and other Web dev software for years and their library of tools has become one of [...]

Tired of trying to navigate through the endless web server log records? Sounds like it might be time for a web server log analyzer. Ya, I believe that similar products have been mentioned here before. However, like any software that comes down the pike, improvements are made.
If you find that this free version of WebLog [...]

Unbeknownst to many, you cannot yet Podcast with blogger. However the folks at Feedburner are apparently looking into this so people that use content management such as blogger.com and other Weblog services of the like will not be left out.
This is great and all but there are still unresolved issues that need attention. The first thing [...]