Category Archives: Web Design

Bad Restaurant Web Sites (from Slate)

Posted on August 11, 2011 by admin

A year or so ago I tried to order Pizza via a company’s web site. About a half hour after I started, I gave up on getting what I wanted into the order and got on the phone. The web … Continue reading →

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The Vanishing Difference Between Blog and Web Site

Posted on January 14, 2011 by admin

  Some time ago I started switching all of my company’s (Energion Publications) web sites to use WordPress as a content management system. As I began to do that I intended to make those sites look as little like a … Continue reading →

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Observations on Web Site Stats and Ranks

Posted on February 2, 2010 by admin

I’ve been looking around the web for a discussion of various ways of keeping and portraying web site statistics and also for page ranking information.  I’ve also had an opportunity to observe a few differences on my own sites and … Continue reading →

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Interesting Illusion on Energion.com

Posted on January 29, 2010 by admin

Energion.com is my oldest web site.  I show a series of rectangular ads for books from my other company Energion Publications.  They are all 200 x 100 pixels, and none are slanted in any way.  But look at the image … Continue reading →

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Netbeans 6.8 Available

Posted on December 15, 2009 by admin

It’s one of my favorites for web site work as well as use as a programmer’s platform, and it’s available for download.

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Text Browsing – w3m

Posted on December 11, 2009 by admin

While I started working online with a 300 baud modem and later operated a bulletin board at the same speed (eventually adding 1200 and then-oh joy!-2400!), I’m relatively new to Linux, and wasn’t even aware that w3m was available.  Linux … Continue reading →

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Quick WMV -> MP4 Conversion

Posted on November 25, 2008 by admin

Well, it’s quick if you use Google Video. Thing is, I use Google Video pretty frequently, and I needed an MP4 of a file in WMV format which I had already uploaded. After a few minutes of searching for the … Continue reading →

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A Simple Variable Width Header in CSS

Posted on November 17, 2008 by admin

This example is actually simpler than most of what you’ll find on the web, and you need to build on it, but I often want to see a simple, stripped down example, so I thought I’d post it. I wanted … Continue reading →

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Blogrush Shutting Down

Posted on November 7, 2008 by admin

Since I blogged about Blogrush before and found it a fairly marginal service, I should note that it is now shutting down.

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From TechRepublic: Making Web Design Go Smoothly

Posted on July 9, 2008 by admin

I went to the post 10 ways to make your Web site design project go smoothly thinking that it would be for the big boys.  I often do design on my own web sites simply because that’s what I can … Continue reading →

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