Archive for September 2002

Be prepared to lighten your wallets as New Riders has released a frenzy of books by talented authors this month. Molly releases her 20-something book, Integrated Web Design: Building the New Breed of Designer & Developer. My copy of Special Edition Using HTML and XHTML hasn’t arrived yet and she’s already coming out with a new one. I can’t keep up! She amazes me with her flair for writing. I can only hope that I can accomplish a fourth of what she has.

A much needed new CSS book joins Eric Meyer’s newest book. Between the two, it should get anyone off the ground running in CSS. Who better than Christopher Schmitt to write Designing CSS Web Pages. He did an impressive job on Digital Web’s CSS issue.

Andrew Chak shows designers how to get customers to Submit Now: Designing Persuasive Websites.

Blogging continues to be the hot topic in the world of publishing as Biz Stone, Genius, releases Blogging: Genius Strategies for Instant Web Content. What are we bloggers supposed to do with the flux of talent writing about blogs including Rebecca who wrote The Weblog Handbook: Practical Advice on Creating and Maintaining Your Blog and Shelley, Ben, Mena, Cory, and et. al. combine their brains into one book on Essential Blogging.

OK, I am convinced. I need another pair of eyes to keep up with all this reading.

webWAVE Development Process from Gantthead, an online community for IT project managers, steps through the blueprint of four stages for establishing corporate communications vehicle (intranet).

Discover > Design > Implement > Launch

There’s an “Add to My Favorites” box on the left that searches for related templates. Not sure if you have to register (free) to see the articlem but you definitely have to be a paid member to see the WBS (Work Breakdown Structure) in MSProject.

Gantthead is an excellent tool for process-oriented folks and IT project managers.

Fonts are part of our computer lives and we don’t always think about it existing off the screen. Public Lettering proves there is beauty of fonts on buildings. The site features public buildings with creative lettering. The breathtaking photos will also appeal to architecture fans. It’s truly like seeing fonts come alive, break out of their screen chains.

The Parsons Library uses brick in its lettering. Don’t think I’ve seen that on a building before. However, I’ve done it a few times using graphics programs. It blows away the screen version of text sticking out from bricks. [Link Lockergnome]

Liberty Alliance Project is an alliance of 60+ technology and consumer organizations working together to develop and deploy open, federated network identification specifications that support current and upcoming network devices.

Click on Specifications to get the Liberty Alliance Version 1.0 Specification suite. Hey, I’d point you straight to it, but they framed it!

InternetWeek has more details in English.

With video game systems, computer games, online games, handheld games — younger generations may have no idea what board games are. Not me. We spent cold winter nights playing these games as a family. Enjoy the stroll down memory lane or get introduced to some cool games at Classic American Games. [link BBSpot]

Weekend fun reading. Top 11 Signs You’re Becoming a Geek. Must comment on #4 — “Guys, quit assuming all geeks are guys!&#148

The newest issue of PalmPower takes a look at Four Palm OS Web browsers show their stuff. Having a color PalmOS PDA, it’s to see two of the other browsers that I’ve never used to determine the best Palm OS browser for me. The article takes a PC screenshot of a Web site followed by four screenshots from the Palm OS to compare.

Know a teacher who has a PalmOS handheld? Maybe TinyRedBook would make a nice gift for the person who is cultivating our future generations.

Use Cascading Style Sheets selectors demonstates the evolution of a plain page adding one item with each step. Those still befuddled by CSS will get some benefits. Those who are comfortable with CSS For the most part can get a grip on terms like type selector, class selector, sibling, child, parent, and yadda yadda.

Are you one of the few brave souls looking for more email tech-related newsletters to receive? FreeTechMail %u2013 IT Newsletters lets you search by publisher, topic, and newsletter name. Take this URL. I gotta stay away from it. Can’t take anymore emails. [Link NeatNetTricks]

Ah, it ain’t comin’ out soon. Instead, get your Harry Potter fix by reading HPWizardStore’s 1st Annual Harry Potter Story competition. Great idea — gives the site a little publicity by way of community, makes it fun for the entrants, and provides readers a little something to hold on longer for book 5 and movie 2.

As I always say — I rather Rowling take longer and get book 5 right… than to hurry it up and sacrifice its quality.