Drawing on the Web

WordPress.org released version 2.1, codenamed Ella (for jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald) in mid-January. So far, I like the changes and improvements. Upgrading from the previous version was easy, although it required locking the site and deleting almost all the previous WordPress files and replacing them with the new versions of the files. This step was [...]

Andrew West has a very interesting article about using purchased web site templates in his Wongablog. After starting with a relative’s purchased site template, he finally bit the bullet and redesigned it using CSS instead of the tables design.

My web sites are all hosted on at a web hosting company that uses BSD, Apache, PHP, Perl, MySQL and provides install wizards for lot of other free open-source packages. I have FrontPage Extensions 2002, the latest and final version that Microsoft has said they will release, available, too. I code my web sites at [...]

Looks like Jason Berberich is starting a series of bad web design reviews. Or, perhaps this might be the only one — he’s featuring it because of the hour+ that he spent on hold waiting for tech support.. Check out his Bad Web Design #1: Symantec Mysupport . He’s got a very valid point. I’ve [...]

IT Gears has an interesting article on IE7 incompatibilities. Looks like the author ran into a few more of the incompatiblities that I have, although I was very displeased at the look of some of my web sites when I first saw them under IE7. My earlier IE7 articles talk about some of those bugs [...]

Today I picked up a couple web design & marketing tools from Teri Champigny: One-Time-Offer in a Box is designed to give us the coding we need to make one time offers to visitors, members and new subscribers to our sites and newsletters, and Web Elements E-Z Tools for Webmasters. This package is designed to [...]