Ack! I’ve just had to reinstall MT and it’s been a real pain to do. It became necessary after I wrote a post and when I tried to publish it, MT totally crashed on me. Some frantic scouring of the support forums showed me that the likely cause was that I had ran out of space on my web server and as a consequence, my MT database had become corrupted.
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Smiley Cat Web Stats
There have been a couple of posts (Andy Budd, Whitespace) recently about stats, so in response to that, I thought I’d post some stats for my site for December 2003. Read More
Web Content Management Predictions for 2004
Gerry McGovern has some interesting predictions for content in 2004. According to Gerry,
This is the year when web content comes of age. Organizations will slowly stop viewing content as some cost that needs to be managed. Instead, they will begin to see content as an asset that can drive profits and productivity.
Interestingly enough, at the hospital, we’re encountering a number of the points he raises in his article, so for us at least, it looks like his predictions might be dead on.
Read MoreWeb Design Site Rankings
A recent entry over at Whitespace about site stats (which I can’t link directly to as I can find it and the site has no search) got me to thinking about which web design blogs are the most popular.
Read MorePage Size – How Big is Too Big?
Keith and I were having a discussion today about what should be the upper size limit for home pages. This has carried on into an interesting thread at Asterisk.
Read MoreAvoiding Over-Engineering the US Navy Way
At the hospital, we (the web team) are often asked to create a web-based this or that, such as a form or some kind of app. In the majority of cases such requests represent a huge amount of over-engineering based on the user requirements of the form or tool and the amount of use it is likely to get.
For example, creating a web-based form involves a fair amount of work for the developer and a not inconsiderable development time as there things to include like emailing a copy to the person completing the form and making sure it prints properly. It usually takes several iterations to get right.
Read MoreSearch Engine Optimization Made Easy
In a previous post I recommended an SEO tool called Good Keywords. Recently, however, I found a piece of software that does everything that Good Keywords does and a whole lot more, and best of all, it’s free! Read More
Email Newsletter Software Review
There are lots of tools and services available with which to create email newsletters. This is a review of one of them, Constant Contact, a web-based email newsletter service.
Top Ten Web Design Mistakes of 2003
Jacob Nielsen has posted his annual round up of what’s being done wrong on the web.
Actually, many of the problems he highlights are fairly minor, so if this is his list of consistent worst offenders, then the web is becoming a much more useable and accessible place.
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Color Pickers and Color Scheme Pickers
I was looking to find a nice color scheme for a site the other day and a quick search of the web brought back a number of useful online tools. I thought I’d make a list of them (in no particular order), more for my own benefit really.
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