Tag: web development

Old Man Joins the Team

And… he’s awesome (http://oldman NULL.ca). And darn it, it looks like he should be ten years older than me, not the other way ’round.

Temporary for now, but wheels are in motion for him to become permanent. *crosses fingers*

Oldman Approved™: Nameplate Installed on Office Door on Twitpic (http://twitpic NULL.com/jvn6g)

Managing IT Professionals

Sketching out a process in code… “Professionals” vs “Peons”. Check my code and tell me what I’m missing.
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Fascinating Online Wireframe Tool – iPlotz.com

iPlotz.com (http://iplotz NULL.com/app/) is a fascinating online wireframe tool. Simple drag-and-drop tools (in an attractive pencil-sketch style) make it easy for even a non-designer like me to map out a common web interface. This includes, of course, forms that are increasingly in demand.

I’m sure this would be very handy even for a graphic designer, although some may feel it hampers creativity by excessive handholding. Personally, I need that sparkplug kickstart to get going.

check out iPlotz.com (http://iplotz NULL.com/app/)

Why You Shouldn’t Delete Content

From time to time, some of my colleages that use our college’s Content Management System (http://terminalfour NULL.com/) have a desire to remove all traces of certain content from the web site. For example, sometimes a course or program gets cancelled, and staff are concerned that students will try to sign up for the cancelled offering. Let me offer an alternative perspective.

Purging information from your website has some seriously negative consequences with respect to your ability to control your content, encourage external links to your site, improving keyword indexing, and potential re-introduction of the program.
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Google Chrome

Google’s new web browser, Chrome, is apparently launching tomorrow launched today (http://google NULL.com/chrome/). This is what I could find on the subject.
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Fixing .htaccess in WordPress

Well. My good friend Bryan Ens (http://bryanens NULL.wordpress NULL.com/) pointed out that my RSS feed was wrecked yesterday. On further study, i realised all my links were toast. This is bad. The home page worked, but no other page did. *sigh* So I set out to figure out what went wrong and repair it.
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