2004 November

Most of you probably know about W3C’s validators. WDG has a validator. My first thought, “Why create a validator when we’ve got the W3C, the official organization?” WDG covers that with its explanation.
I ran google.com on both validators. WDG’s explanation, in my opinion, is easier to understand than W3C, which uses formal (rules) language. It’s […]

Ah yes, our old friend the Coffee Cup HTML Editor. Man, it has been a long while since I had the opportunity to do much with this software. The last time I tried it, I found it ‘usable’ enough, I suppose. Still, I ended up going to another program at that time.
After coming back to […]

Dave, Help! My Weblog is drowning in these seemingly nonsensical postings from people that have nothing to do with my discussion, yet don’t actually point to any sort of existing Web site or even a valid e-mail address. On the assumption that they’re not doing it just to annoy me, why would they bother to […]

Even if we do not all love Web mail, we have all used it one time or another. Did you know though that Hotmail, Gmail, and Yahoo! Mail are not the only options? Did you know that you could have your very own Web mail account set up on your Web hosting account? […]

Anybody who cares about making it “big” Online can tell you they have spent some time sweating over search engine optimization (also known as SEO) at one time or another. It is a big pressure if you want to get the visitors running into your Web site. Well, the best first step in […]

A long while back I wrote up an article about how to track when Googlebot had come to pay your Web site a visit. After receiving dozens of E-mails on that topic, I figured I’d hunt down another useful way of tracking things using PHP. The best thing about PHP coding in general […]

We all know the more junk that is on a Web page, the longer it takes to load. This is the number one reason why folks have started to use more CSS in their Web site code. CSS is lighter than your standard HTML. The smaller a page’s file size is, the […]

“In this week’s issue of Digital Web Magazine is a great interview of WordPress creator Matt Mullenweg. Though, Matt is much more than just the creator of WordPress. He is also one of the co-creators of XFN, the creator of Ping-O-Matic, photographer, and I hear he can also play some wicked jazz on the sax. […]

Speaking as someone who was once interested in creating an eBook himself, this software really caught my interest. Logically named SbookBuilder, this program will enable you to easily create the eBook of their dreams assuming you have the time.
As for myself, I had to place my eBook dreams on hold indefinitely for now. Too many […]

Gnomies, rejoice! Dave Taylor has agreed to share his infinite Web-wisdom here, on a daily basis. Please give him a warm welcome!
My sister and I have been engaged in a dialog about the merits of weblogs versus traditional Web sites and it’s evolved into a quite interesting discussion. She asks: “I still don’t see how […]

A big hello! Some of you may remember me. Fewer of you may have wondered what happened to ‘that guy.’ This first entry back will be an explanation of my disappearing act.
The last time I wrote was the first part of October. Where did I go and what happened to me from then until now […]

With the launch of MSN’s new search it is time to think yet again about the optimization of your Web site. Most of the time when you mention search engine optimization, a lot of folks roll their eyes and look the other way. I promise, though, it does not have to be that […]

The world of Web hosting has changed, folks, and it has changed for the better. As many people know by now, I am a former Web hosting worker and I have seen some of these changes take place both from the consumer’s standpoint and the Web hosts’ standpoint.
The one thing that used to always […]

Neur0 has written an excellent article that beginning and future users of Adobe Illustrator will want to give a read. It is written as a tutorial in designing a simple logo, but also touches on general topics of graphics design such as the differences between RGB and CMYK and the strengths of each.

There are many different flavors in the ice cream store we know as the world of Web hosting. Some are too large, some are too small, but sooner or later you will find the one that fits you just right. I have even known a few Web hosting companies that would leave a […]

In the world of safe Web design you are going to need an image on your Web site every so often. Not everybody has the skill nor the ability to get the photo they want themselves though. Sure there is stealing graphics, but I promise that is not the best way to fix […]

Described as a ‘Web-based Open Source collaboration suite similar to Lotus Notes’, eGroupWare sounds like something with a lot of real potential. Since it has open framework and published APIs, it would not take a whole lot to expand this to meet your own needs.
With the simple to follow interface, just about anyone can set […]

With the KISS principle firmly in hand, ‘The Search Engine Project‘ shows us that a successful search engine script can come from the realm of the Open Source community if given the opportunity.
Still very much in Beta and really not for the non-techy at this point, I would say if you have some time to […]

Even Robert Scoble understands that Firefox is on the right track. As he goes down a fairly sizable list of what makes Firefox so attractive to people, he really impressed me by being so objective about it.
To be honest, I really have no idea what his thoughts are of Mozilla’s products outside of this post, […]

The software described as the ‘Big Faceless PDF library is a Java class library for reading and writing PDF documents’. Sounds good to me, but what is with the name?
It has some sort of creepy sounding things going. Like some big, faceless ‘thing’ that goes bump in the night. Maybe it’s just me, but I […]