Category: Web, Tech & Design

  • New Hobby: Server Administration

    I work with several very good server admins who let me play on their hardware for very little money. I am very grateful for them and owe them both a debt of gratitude (as well as some money to help them upgrade their setups). Thanks Russ (that is: Wombat) and Mike (Konsole), and special props…

  • DontClick.It A new approach to user interface

    DontClick.It is exploring a new method of user interface, clickless mousing. Basically it looks like they are treating “hovering” over an area as an insinuated click on a link. The area you mouse-over automatically opens, selects, “clicks” through to the next level. I don’t have any research to back this, so what I am offering…

  • Browsershots.org

    Browsershots.org. “an open-source system for distributed automatic production of browser screenshots.” I’ve been using Browsercam.com to get automatic screenshots of my Web sites in nearly all the different browsers. This appears to be a free approximation of that service. It does not offer as many platform/browser combinations as Browsercam however, so, while it is cheap-as-free,…

  • EIT Blogs

    A standard template for all blogs for Iowa State University Extension CMS: MovableType 3.16 Under the hood: XHTML 1.0 Trans, CSS2

  • Buzzle.com on Search Engine Optimization

    There are some pretty good SEO suggestions in a recent article on SEO by Buzzle.com Essentially it’s the same old tips: Update content regularly Relevant inbound links Click through rates etc.. With some interesting new tips (recent developments/stuff I haven’t heard before. Notably: How many years you have registered your domain name for Spam tactics…