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Bill Slawski is a search marketing consultant with KeyRelevance, an administrator at Cre8asiteForums, and authors a blog on search-related patents.
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Cre8asite Forums is moving to a new server location this coming weekend.
We’ve been at the old server since our start, almost three years ago. Our fourth year will find us in a new home. But, to move, we are going to be experiencing some downtime while the transfer takes place.
Kim stated that “For now, we expect to be offline this weekend - Friday, August 19 - Sunday, August 21. Our Tech Admins will keep you informed as to more details, and approximent times. ”
More details here: Forums Community Alert! Downtime Notice.
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Cre8asite Forum’s techical administrator has been showing his incredibly helpful and knowledgeable understanding of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and PHP recently.
He’s developed a couple of cheat sheets to make it easier for you to use both CSS and PHP. These are some wonderful resources, and I recommend that you stop by his site, and check them out.
CSS Cheat Sheet
PHP Cheat Sheet
These would make great posters.
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Michael Geist is a law professor at the University of Ottawa, and he holds the Canada Research Chair in Internet and E-commerce Law.
He is also a well respected columnist on internet and copyright issues facing Canada, and the rest of the globe. He also blogs about those issues, and his opinions on subjects dealing with the web are always well considered and thoughtful.
So, when I saw a new article from him about his recent visit to China, I thought that it worth sharing here…
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Michael Geist on The Great Firewall of China
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Metaphors can be used to help structure a web site, and add a unique and interesting way of thinking about a site and the products or services that it might offer.
Proctor and Gamble used an interesting metaphor on their site for laundry detergent Tide, based upon the structure of a typical American home, and the types of stains that might be found in different rooms of that home. It seemed like a good idea.
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Cultural Problems with Metaphors in Web Site Design
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I missed this when it blogged at the Google Blog a few days ago.
In case you don’t know, Googlebot is the name of the computer program that visits people’s web sites, and indexes the content of those pages. Even though it’s a computer program, it’s easy to think about it as a living organism, and you’ll sometimes see Googlebot referred to on the web as if it were a sentient being.
Seems like the dull environs of Google’s data centers are a good place for some moral building - like a mural of the Googlebot connecting the world together. See I, Googlebot.
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Googlebot Sighting in an Undisclosed Data Center
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I’ve always been a sucker for a well designed album cover. With the growing popularity of MP3s, iPods, and electronic distribution of music, one of the things I fear might go away is the art accompanying the songs.
And perhaps, that is one of the things that can save it.
Will CDs be around ten years from now? Will the idea of having a music collection stored on your computing device be commonplace?
Nice interview with Steve Krug at Boxes and Arrows.
One of the interesting tidbits of information from the article is a new book in the works on how to do “low-cost/no-cost do-it-yourself usability testing.”
His first book, “Don’t Make me Think,” was an entertaining, informative, and easy to read introduction to usability, and is highly recommended. If the second book is as good as the first one, it should be worth keeping an eye out for.
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A couple of nice articles about accessibility crossed my path today, and I wanted to share them.
The first one discusses the costs of not designing with accessibility in mind - 100,000 reasons to design for accessibility - from Bruce Lawson.
The second one is from Juicy Studios, and offers some ideas on how to implement Skip links. More than just a simple discussion of how to use skip links, it also goes into why they should be used, and has a great section on Don Norman’s concepts of the gulf of execution and the gulf of evaluation.
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