Archive for January 2004
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Web Design Resources
January 21st, 2004 |Originally posted at InformIT. The Internet has an overwhelming number of great resources for Web design-related information, tutorials, tips, and applications. These are my go to resources covering general Web design topics rather than specific areas: A List Apart Digital-Web Web Design References Webmonkey Webreference and its newsletter WebsiteTips And, of course, we’re working to build InformIT to become a resource for Web [...]
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Name Dropping
January 20th, 2004 |Paul Stanley, George Burns, Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin, Bill Maher, David Lynch, DeForest Kelley, Joycelyn Powell (good friend of mine) S. Matsil (another good friend’s kid), Stacey Dash, Rudy Boesch, Peter Donat, and Sooz. Darn, I tried to do it in “We didn’t start the fire” style, but no time. On this date in 1981, Iran released [...]
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Adding USB 2.0
January 19th, 2004 |It’s done! The process of adding USB 2.0 ports took no time and the backup system is mighty fast. If you add USB 2.0 ports with a PCI port card, then you’ll still have your USB 1.1 ports, so whatever is plugged into those can stay. Rob Foster from the UK sent me a port PCI [...]
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Friendly 404 Handling
January 17th, 2004 |Dunstan has a comprehensive list of 404 handling pages specific to the problem. Nice work! Ian Lloyd wrote The Perfect 404 for A List Apart.
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IE6 Fails Windows Test
January 16th, 2004 |I re-installed Internet Explorer 6 in hopes of fixing a problem, but it didn’t work. Instead, I got a kick out of it because it didn’t pass the Windows logo test. Click on the image to see the full evidence. If this one doesn’t pass, why should it matter if the others fail? The problem [...]
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Can You Hack It?
January 14th, 2004 |This screen shot from Dori’s computer is priceless. Cussword alert. Probably old news by now considering it’s in the top news everywhere, but the new say hey kid from my hometown was suspended from school for simply sending an pre-IM message to other computers in the school lab because it was considered hacking. Puleeeazze! Interesting, but who [...]
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10 Invisible Writing Mistakes
January 12th, 2004 |10 mistakes writer’s don’t see that are easily fixed when they do is right on. I admit I have a few crutch words and it makes me crazy. I knew about this crutch word habit before reading the article and sometimes I admit I occasionally become lazy trying to look up alternatives. William K. Zinsser, author [...]
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404 Starring Jakob
January 11th, 2004 |Creative 404 Error page from Ultrashock.com and another from 1976. [Via Etc.]
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Removing the Colon
January 11th, 2004 |No Mark of Distinction talks about book publishers who are considering removing colons from book titles. I have mixed feelings about this. On one hand, titles are getting ridiculously long thanks to the colon. However, I understand publishers are trying to stay it all with the title since people are in a hurry and rarely [...]
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Validator Tools
January 10th, 2004 |Add the Accessibility Toolbar provided by the Accessible Information Solutions (AIS) team at the National Information and Library Service (NILS), Australia, which helps the user to interrogate aspects (structure/code/content) of an HTML document that can have an affect on the accessibility of that document. Those using Mozilla will want to download Checky, a plug-in that [...]
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