11th
July
2000
“Ask anyone who works on the editorial or design side of a media Web site what the worst part of their job is. After they exhaust themselves on the number of hours they work and how little their options are now worth, talk often turns to the publishing tools they use to manage their site and how much they hate them.”
posted in Content management | Permalink |
11th
July
2000
“Boo.com is the first example of a phenomenon I call Death by Flash. You can expect to see more of it over the next year, as sites that tried to ‘break out of the box’ find that ‘the box’ is where too many of their potential customers live.”
posted in Flash | Permalink |
11th
July
2000
“How do you make a web page that looks good no matter how wide the browser window is? Use liquid tables, a technique that lets you ‘pour’ your content into the page so that it flows to the margins, even if the window is resized. Wait a sec, doesn’t the good old HTML tag allow content to flow? Yes, but the problem is, you often need parts of the page to remain fixed, such as a navigation bar down one side. The challenge is to have both a fixed and a flexible portion of the page. This is where liquid tables will help you.”
posted in HTML/DHTML/XHTML | Permalink |
11th
July
2000
“XHTML? Find out how the XHTML 1.0 Recommendation, successor to HTML4, can help you prepare your site for the Web of the future with this article by WDVL’s founder, Alan Richmond. Learn what XHTML is all about, why you will want to learn to use it, and where it’s going to take the Web.”
posted in HTML/DHTML/XHTML | Permalink |
11th
July
2000
“Microsoft does it. Apple does it. Adobe, Netscape, and FileMaker do it. Almost every major software company, in fact, sells increasingly sophisticated software without a printed manual… Now David Pogue, award-winning author of 15 bestselling computer books, has teamed with O’Reilly & Associates to launch a new imprint, Pogue Press, dedicated to producing sterling, beautifully written manuals for popular consumer software and hardware products.”
posted in Software/Hardware | Permalink |