2005 March

Well folks, the results are in. The best Website for travel has been named. I think that whole idea of Web awards is pretty cool, myself. If you are looking to get the real scoop on what happened to who, just check out the press release for yourself.

I almost fell out of my chair laughing when I read that Dow Jones believes that people will pay for their news instead of getting it for free. Lucky for the micro-publishers that the big-media is still so insanely clueless.

Here is yet, another opinion about accessibility. I certainly believe that accessibility is important, but feel that necessity is really the true mother of innovation. Not only that, at what point does accessibility become more of a hindrance rather than a help?

Studies show that people are deleting cookies and cached files from their computer regularly, giving the web developer a new headache for tracking their visitors. Tracking your visitor’s movements on your site can be very beneficial for showing trends and increasing visitor stay length and revenue, if you adapt your site accordingly. There […]

Wendy Chisholm, a Web accessibility specialist for the World Wide Web Consortium, writes about Innovative Design Inspired by Accessibility. I love this quote, “There are many examples of disability inspiring innovation. Take the curb cut, those dips in sidewalks created for people using wheelchairs. They’re used by rollerbladers, stroller-pushers, bicyclists, and rolly-bag toters.” It goes […]

I think that I like the idea of these awards. Instead of just praising the Websites, this award actually looks at who is behind them. Running into its 9th annual competition, I will be interested to see how this turns out for those involved.

This may sound a little too good to be true, but this is just what the press release is claiming. GotWebsiteHosting.com is going to be offering Web hosting for a price that would make GoDaddy blush. Guess we will have to see just how successful this proves to be I suppose.

While the title may be misleading at first, this press release that I found is actually talking about how CE Buys is getting into the discount business from their own Website. I suppose one could say that a single Website can in fact have a variety of paths it wants to pursue in lieu of […]

While this may be between China and Japan, the petitions themselves to keep Japan off of the UN security counsel are coming from the Web. To be even more accurate, they are being handled by a group of interested Web portals; each with their own agendas.

Drag and drop Website design. Boy, it is with this sort of simplicity that could perceive software such as Macromedia’s Contribute as being more difficult! As I read through this article describing the latest features being offered by the Drag drop site creator, I will admit that it has peaked my own curiosity.

Just because steps are being taken to defend ourselves against Phishing attacks, there is still plenty to be concerned about according to PCWorld. It seems that this problem remains an issue on the rise and there is not sign of it really slowing down anytime soon.

Hey, quit spending all of your free time filling in all of those stupid forms! Get with a solution that I have used off and on for years. AI Roboform will help you to navigate through all of the crap that the Internet has us filling out these days. Tons of great features, this software […]

Yet another Weblog analyzer to check out. eWebLog Analyzer has all the features that you might expect. Great reporting features and works with most server types as well. All and all, I would say that eWebLog Analyzer is worth the money they are asking if stats are something that you need to keep up on.

Ready to try something new with IIS? How about creating a virtual directory? I must admit that I was surprised at how easy it really is to do. Yehuda Shiran does a great job at taking the complexity out of the equation, that is for sure!

Bloglines is just cool. Not only do they allow me to keep track of my feeds regardless on where I happen to be, but now they are offering package tracking to their already outstanding service! Yes, you read this correctly. Bloglines is going to offer package tracking. Wild, huh?

Don’t be silly! You should not have to spend a fortune for that logo project. Just use this program instead! Logo Design Studio makes logo creation a breeze.

Fighting over the quality loss that can happen with JPEG compression? Don’t fight it; avoid it! Just use BetterJPEG to keep this from being any sort of problem in the first place.

Before you get ready to offer up all of those Creative Commons MP3s to your Web server, you might want to edit those ID3 tags first. Rather than fretting on what to use, just run with Ultra Tag Editor.

A while back I wrote an article about Lingo. In case you forgot or never read that article (shame on you), Lingo is a VOIP telephone service. I discovered it on a Google search one day. After I signed up for Lingo and received my equipment, I got an offer I could not refuse! That […]

Tips and tools for turbocharging the IDE.
“One thing Microsoft has always done is focus on the needs
of developers, and providing them with high-quality tools has been a high
priority from the beginning,” asserts James Avery, author of “Visual
Studio Hacks”. According to Avery, Visual Studio is
one of the best development environments available, not just for the
start-up templates […]