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This is my blogchalk:
United States, San Francisco, Pacific Heights, English.
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Saturday, February 08, 2003 |
Searchable Weblog!
Cool!
While surfing the Radio top 100 list, I notice that The Cartoonist has a simple search box just below the calendar. I didn't think I could find a free service (such as Google) until I got my own domain. I thought wrong.
So I added a search box using Pico's free search service. Now I am compliant with Day 29's recommendations for a more accessible website.
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Thursday, October 31, 2002 |
Hyperlink Histograms
A survey of the A element and attributes in the field. Bob DuCharme did one of those wacky things one does when presented with a big data set. He took Google's sample from their programming contest, and a sample of pulls from Yahoo's random URL, and surveyed how the A element was used. Yes, this is geeky, yet strangely cool.[More Like This WebLog]
This is cool. Not sure what to do with the data. A good resource for culling the best link styles.
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Wednesday, October 23, 2002 |
The Coolest Radio Trick Yet
This is the coolest Radio trick I've seen yet:
Click here to add this event to your Outlook or Netscape calendar.
Actually, it's not just a Radio trick, it's a web trick. I love it. See Blue Sky Radio for vCalendar and Radio, Part 1 and 2.
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Tuesday, October 22, 2002 |
Another great, practical tip from CityDesk News:
[CityDesk News]
Paul Adams explains how to provide a custom 404 error page that's more useful than the default. Here at Fog Creek, we use CityDesk to generate our 404 error page; there's no reason your 404 page can use CityScript and templates. With some creativity you can do really cool stuff. For example, set a keyword (404) on the most popular pages of your site, then use CityScript with the condition (keyword_contains "(404)") so that anybody mistyping a URL at your site gets an index of popular pages.
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Tuesday, October 08, 2002 |
Tricks of the Print Trade
I always enjoy Joel on Software. One of the reasons I enjoy it has nothing to do with content - I love the layout. It requires very little eye strain. The serif fonts allow the eye to recognize shapes of familiar words. More importantly, the article text forms a column that is narrow. The narrow column of text surrounded by blocks of whitespace keep the eye from being overwhelmed, and the reader is able to stay focused.
Since Nick Fink was recently quoted in CityDesk News, we learn that Joel's format is a trade secret of the Print profession:
Nick Finck: There is an unspoken rule in print which states that text should not exceed four inches in width on a page. Any text less than four inches is more readable than any text over four inches the reader's whiplash will speak for itself.
How to do it: (well, one way to do it, there are many):
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Wednesday, October 02, 2002 |
Javascript [1] to create DHTML [2] that looks like Flash [3]
[CityDesk News]A tiny Javascript library from Poland called Alladyn lets you create spectacular animation effects in DHTML that look like Flash, but without... Flash! And they work on almost any modern browser using very clever techniques to achieve compatibility. Check out their gallery, you'll be amazed at what's possible.
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Sunday, September 29, 2002 |
Style-O-Mattic is a pretty cool applet. I cannot provide a direct link to it, but if you go to Builder.com's section on Style Sheets you can launch it in a separate window.
Update [9/30/2002, 2:08 AM]: there is a direct link to the Style-O-Mattic: http://builder.cnet.com/webbuilding/pages/Authoring/CSS/CssMaker/index.html.
Thanks Bubba (if that is your real name).