Seems a lot of people these days like to debate on the relative value of building a site to a particular standard. Anybody familiar with WordPress will know that its foundation is semantically-correct code, built to XHTML standards and with valid CSS as well. I’ve been in the middle of a few of those forum threads myself, being somewhat of a standards-evangelist. There are lots and lots of people out there who are FAR more knowledgeable than I about web design and web standards. However, my point is this–if I get it, then why don’t more people get it too? I will not bore you with platitudes of reasons to build a site to a standard, and by site, I mean from the most simple web log to the most complex portal or e-commerce site. Instead, I invite you to pay a visit to MACCAWS.org— “Making A Commercial Case for […]
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Archive for April, 2004
I have been working on a Photolog which uses WordPress and would really like to know what people think of it. The features of this Photolog include: – XHTML compliant code – Simple once click addition of photos, auto thumbnail and resizing – Extraction of EXIF information from original photo and saved as meta – Easy installation, as easy as installing WordPress – Simple, clean design and look – Simple navigation I still have some more work to get the archives and the paged navigation work correctly, but here is Pictorialis – My new Photolog. Here is a beta version. This might have some errors so please be careful with existing databases. Post errors/suggestions on here. Thanks. http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/pictorialis.zip [EDIT] New Pictorialis Project Page. Please Bookmark.
[Continue Reading...]Everyone has a toolbar nowadays. Dogpile is added to that list. The reason that it shows up on this blog is because it allows addition of RSS tickers to the toolbar. Interesting? Sure. Useful? Dunno! Here is a list of features: Ticker – Get the latest news and information delivered directly to your ticker. Ticker Customization – Control the ticker’s speed, size and scrolling direction. RSS Tool – Add any type of ticker feed, including news, summaries and blogs. SearchSpy™ – Watch scrolling terms to see what people are searching for in real-time. Dogpile RSS toolbar download page.
[Continue Reading...]Another interesting variation of the blogroll/RSS aggregator. This time it comes from MyStack.com. Rather than my trying to explain how it works, this is a direct quote from the webpage. Might be useful as an automatic LinkBlog. MyStack.com lets you create “Stacks”. A stack is a list of links, like a blogroll, and can be inserted into a weblog or webpage. Unlike ordinary blogrolls, the list of links in a Stack changes. When you create a stack, you tell us what items you want us to stack for you. When the PubSub system finds new items that match your request, your Stack is immediately updated.
[Continue Reading...]Avoid funky, overdone, extreme overpopulation of code and information. We are all guilty of this, no doubt about it. But if your page opens up a virtual window everytime someone mouseovers the main page, you have gone too far. You want your site to look nice, be easy to navigate and attractive enough to come back to. Thats all that matters. If in the process you write compliant code which follows standards then kudos go to you. But quit with the flash and javascript effects already. Thankfully, I have come across only a few sites which include flash in a blog, but that time is sure to come. Code is a boon and a curse in many ways. The main purpose of a blog or a webpage is lost in the translation. The original CodeProject webpages are good examples of excessive amounts of information cramped into a very small space. […]
[Continue Reading...]In my quest for finding a good photolog (and creating/writing my own) I have come across some very interesting sites, tutorials and such. Here is a list of sites out there. This list is not biased in any way and could easily be extended and appended. Please feel free to email me or leave a comment for others. – MT Photolog Conversion tutorial: Great resource. Looks like there are a bunch of ways to convert a Movable Type installation to a photolog! – A list of photolog software online (mostly paid, from photologs.org) Buzznet Expressions Fotolog.net Fotopages.com Phlog Splinder (Italian) textamerica TypePad Blogware LockerGnome.net has an integerated PhotoLog – Thanks Chris – potiphoti – yet another photolog – PhotoStack: from Noel Jackson, very powerful and very, very customizeable – Another 5 step photolog using Movable Type These are only a few that I have found. I am, of course, looking […]
[Continue Reading...]I was going through my referrer logs and noticed a couple of hits from a site called Kinja and decided to check it out for myself. It turns out that Kinja is a kind of aggregator of your favourite blogs. The good thing about Kinja is that not only can you keep track of the blogs that you specify (like an aggregator) it also lets you browse for, and add to your list, blogs that other people find interesting and the system keeps track of. The idea is old but comes with a new twist that is a good marketing campaign. This is a good way to keep track of interesting blogs and can be seen as a replacement for news aggregators. Kinja is still in beta and these are the suggested benefits of this sytem: * keep up with favorite authors, and friends who blog * discover new weblogs […]
[Continue Reading...]I would have thought not. My belief was that if you site has been providing good content for a while and has regular readers, a slightly less usable presentation style or an ugly theme might let you get away with it for a while. I also believed that users are forgiving and will be willing to look overlook cosmetic design weaknesses when visiting a blog with powerful content. I was forced to think again. I was dead wrong!! Let me explain myself. I had switched the CSS of this site because of problems I had had with the CSS that I was using (which is back to where it was, mind you). The old CSS did not scale well and was not very pretty under Internet Explorer. Surprisingly, the number of hits fell considerably with that change. Not only did the number of uniques fall, the number of people willing […]
[Continue Reading...]Alex King has hit a triple header (?)! He has released a nice new 3 Column CSS template/theme for WordPress. It is pretty, is compliant (right Alex) and walks the dogs on Sunday mornings! Seriously, well done Alex! I might be using that basic design for my next template. You can see the new template here. You can download it here.
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