Category: Best Practices

  • Seybold SF, Day One

    Attendance seems sparse today. I brushed up on browser compatability issues and learned a lot of useful tricks for optimizing graphics. I skipped a content-management session I was thinking of attending at the last minute. Going through the schedule, I see a lot of conflicts, so I’m glad I’ll be able to download the powerpoints…

  • I'll be at Seybold all week

    This is just a reminder that I’ll be attending the Seybold 2003 conference in San Francisco all this week. I’m doing an hour on syndication on Tuesday afternoon, a half-hour intro to blogging on Thursday afternoon, and a 3.5-hour comprehensive weblogs tutorial on Friday afternoon. There’s wi-fi at the conference, so though I might not…

  • jjg on user-centered design

    Good (public) interview getting underway in the Well’s Inkwell conference with Jesse James Garrett, author of The Elements of User Experience (New Riders, 2003), a book I’ve promised to review in this space and will get around to eventually, I promise! Garrett is a groundbreaker in the less-than-a-decade old discipline of information architecture. Much of…

  • Weee're back

    Well, that took longer than expected. I’m still getting things re-configured and re-set up at ol’ Open Publishing / ezone / x-everything industries, but most of the sites are at least now visible, and I may hope that we’ve cured the hacked-so-easily problem we had going there. In the meantime, off the air, I found…

  • Radio silence

    I’m bringing my server down for maintenance. You can only hack my home page so many times (three, to be exact) before I decide to do something about it. My sysadmin/friend/host Jeff Tiedrich will be updating our Linux install from an old Slackware version to a more recent Red Hat version said to have more…

  • Visio ate my homework

    I’ve been drawing wire frames (also called virtual blueprints) depicting schematically how a number of different page views and portlets and popup windows show look and function for a portal project, and I’ve been drawing these pictures in Visio. It’s an old version of Visio (2000) and I’m running it on a fairly old Dell…