Category: Random
The Daily News: GIMP, usability, and WordPress
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I decided that I would start rounding up interesting links each day and pass them along to my readers. I will still be publishing my own articles, but find that I don’t have as much time to get them out as often as I would like. So expect a semi-daily round up of cool links…
Contest @ Just Creative Design
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Jacob Cass over at Just Creative Design is offering a contest for his one year anniversary. Currently there are no details on how to join the contest but he is calling for sponsors. I will be donating a 10 pack of Photoshop brushes to the competition and through that competition is the only way you…
Bit of a Dog’s Breakfast: News Round up
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Today the news seemed to range all over the place, a bit of a dog’s breakfast follows. All of us freelancers (at least I would hope) do some sort of follow up with our clients at the end of a project. For me it is usually just a ‘thanks keep me in mind’ email but…
Market and they will come: News Round Up
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Starting off today is a great article listing lots of helpful hints on writing an XHTML Strict web page. Whether you like XHTML Strict or not it’s here so here are some hints on how to write it if you choose to write your next website in the Strict Doctype. Are you a student or…
Forms are on the Schedule: News Round UP
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It seems that many sites were posting information on how to build forms that are easy for users. Jeff over at Blankenthoughts has a great post on 6 Tips for Making Website Registration User-Friendly. Many of the suggestions are great (especially regarding weird password requirements), but I have to say that I really don’t agree…
The News — XTHML, the economy and your social blog
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First up today is a reasonably technical article on XHTML myths and realities. Written by a member of the W3C this article goes over the start of HTML and the morph to XHTML. It comments on browser support and ultimately recommends that you write HTML 4.0 instead of XHTML. A real interesting article that get…
News Round up
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Starting today is an article from Ars Technica about the future of Internet Explorer Mobile. Internet Explorer Mobile comes on Windows Mobile phones as the default web browser (of which I own one the HTC Touch). Anyone who has coded web standards based websites is well aware of the beast that is IE 6, which…
News Round UP
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Here’s the weekly news round up culled from the stack of RSS feeds that I subscribe to. Starting off is a great post from Just Creative Design that lists all of the WordPress plugins used by Jacob Cass. They range from spam filters (Akismet) to SEO tools (All in one SEO Pack). Many of these…
Generating Links to your Site
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One of the big things that you need to do to improve you search engine rankings is to generate links back to your blog. That’s easy to say but much harder to do so lets look at some ways to generate links back to your website. Have Something Worth Linking to Before you start working…
Tuesday News Round Up
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As I was digging through my RSS feeds today I found a bunch of useful information that I thought I would pass on. Starting off there is a great article on the implementation of sIFR3. It takes you from a discussion on how to implement it to the what if questions regarding the lack of…