Category Archives: Web Design & Development

CBC News – Technology & Science – Webby Awards name decade’s top internet stories

CBC News – Technology & Science – Webby Awards name decade’s top internet stories.

Attention TAFE Students, again!

Ahem…
If you were at Friday’s class, you might recall a large portion of the class (i.e. all of it) was devoted to FTP.  We FTPed using Filezilla, using the built in FTP Client in Frontpage (and I showed you one in Dreamweaver too), and I showed you FTP from the Command prompt.
And then I handed [...]

CSS Sprites: What They Are, Why They’re Cool, and How To Use Them | CSS-Tricks

CSS Sprites: What They Are, Why They’re Cool, and How To Use Them | CSS-Tricks.

Attention TAFE Students…

Hey class,
I told you not to come to my website, but all of you don’t listen, do you?  So to help you practice the FTP activity I told you about on Friday, I created an FTP account for you.
Now, the address is *********, the username is *********, and the password is ******.
(These have been edited [...]

The State of the Blog Address

Okay, so I still have all kinds of items on my to-do list that aren’t done, and I know I have yet to resolve that IE6 issue (which is bad because StatPress keeps reporting IE6 as a significant portion of my tiny audience – hey you whomever you are, switch to Firefox!  You’ll be happier [...]

Opera to Web developers: Come to MAMA

Opera to Web developers: Come to MAMA.
This is an interesting article – a search engine for web structure not content.  Hmmm.  Well, I have to admit to looking at other people’s code a lot.

A List Apart: Articles: Ten Years

A List Apart: Articles: Ten Years.
ALA is brilliant. I am an almost loyal reader. I would be a loyal reader, if I loyally read stuff.

The Style

So, let’s talk about the style. That’s the visuals – all the things you’re looking at.
This website is actually running software called “Wordpress“. It’s free, it runs on a language called php and a database called mysql. I’m hosting it through a crowd called mphosting but I’m running a copy on my [...]

The to-do list

What do I need to do to make myself happy?
Uh, that’s kind of a big question, isn’t it?
Okay, fine, what do I need to do to make myself happy with this blog?
Much better. Why don’t you make a to-do list?
Because I hate to-do lists. They always look stupid because they always become terribly [...]

Going Live?

Am I going live?  Yes and but mind the construction.
Well, it’s time I got this up and running; I’ve been talking about going live my website live for a long time now.  The problem is the perfectionist streak in me.  When it comes to things like this, I can talk myself out of a project [...]