Archive for September 2005
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Casual Friday: Music and Parenting Book
September 30th, 2005 |When I received Shel Silverstein’s CD to review, I was excited as I love his works (the children’s stuff) and I thought it’d be a great tool for practicing my listening skills. I was disappointed that most of it was set to music, but I didn’t let that interfere with my review as I have [...]
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The Best of Shel Silverstein: His Words His Songs His Friends
September 29th, 2005 |The first poem I memorized for school as a second grader was Shel Silverstein’s Captain Hook. Over the years, I repeatedly referred to his poems from the two more famous books The Light in the Attic and Where the Sidewalk Ends. Timeless. Funny. There’s another side of Shel Silverstein that few recognize — his country [...]
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Email Criticism
September 29th, 2005 |I got an email from an anonymous coward (email bounced) saying that it’s wrong to use a div in the headers. Gee, really? Excuse my ‘tude. I appreciate it when people write in about a mistake of mine, but not when they do it anonymously and with a finger shaking attitude that says, “Wrong-o, buster!” Naturally, [...]
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Client Gifts
September 28th, 2005 |I plan to send gifts to my clients this year for the first time now that I’m a full-time Content Maven. The selection process has been difficult and I can’t make up my mind. First, I thought I would do shortbread cookies from a woman that fellow IVWCC members spoke of highly. But based on [...]
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HTML and XHTML Introduction
September 27th, 2005 |Even with high-quality Web editor applications, it’s good to know how to do markup. While there are plenty of excellent HTML introduction tutorials out there on the Web, most of them teach with deprecated (obsolete) markup. Knowing about deprecated markup is helpful so you can read the source of older Web pages. But why learn [...]
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ScreamFree Parenting: Raising Your Kids by Keeping Your Cool
September 27th, 2005 |This book appeared at the right time because I’ve been trying to cut down on yelling and work through problems by staying calm, which is the approach Runkel, a licensed family and marriage therapist, advocates. The book is an easy read and doesn’t overwhelm the parent with too many steps as self-help books often do. The [...]
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Email newsletters could fail the “test”
September 26th, 2005 |Before each newsletter goes out, InternetVIZ runs it through an application to check the chances of the issue getting shot into the junk folder. One of the results said, “Shouting markup.” No explanation. That was THE explanation. We figured out that it is the use of bold, headers (h1, h2, etc.) and emphasis (AKA italics). [...]
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Who Sets the Standard?
September 23rd, 2005 |Email newsletters could fail the “test” by Meryl K. Evans The buzz word “standards” may cause an eyeball-rolling response, but without standards, we would have to buy specific media to work with our DVD, VCR and music player. Remember the software buying days, when you had to look for compatibility in terms of Mac versus Windows? Imagine [...]
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What Is This RSS, XML, RDF, and Atom Business?
September 23rd, 2005 |And how they impact the newsletter biz It’s been a long day at work and you’re in no mood to cook dinner or go out. Time to count on the reliable pizza delivery guy. The order is called in and he promptly arrives with smokin’ hot pizza within 30 minutes as promised. If it were only [...]
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Marketing Book: The Big Moo
September 21st, 2005 |Seth is back already with another book. Only he isn’t the author of the book, but the editor. Overall, it’s a good book — but I haven’t gotten any bright ideas from the book. I do like to use humor and storytelling, but not when it’s forced — then it doesn’t sound right. The book has [...]
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