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October 2005 - Posts

More Sitemaps and Navigation

Posted Monday, October 31, 2005 3:05 PM by whodurun4
D. Keith Robinson has some more thoughts on these topics in Thinking Differently About Site Mapping and Navigation . Read More...
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Home Page and Navigation Design

Posted Monday, October 31, 2005 2:38 PM by whodurun4
Indi Young has the following useful articles on these topics: Is Your Homepage Immature? Site Navigation: A Few Helpful Definitions Site Navigation: Keeping It Under Control Read More...
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Lists and CSS

Posted Monday, October 31, 2005 12:10 PM by whodurun4
Two articles I'd like to read when I have the chance are Paul Novitski's Css Swag: Multi-Column Lists and How to Design a List by Vitaly Friedman. Read More...
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Entrepreneur Blogs and Startup Notes

Posted Monday, October 31, 2005 11:17 AM by whodurun4
Here are a list of the Top 10 Most Practical Blogs for Entrepreneurs and a how to on bankrolling your own business . Read More...
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More Findability II

Posted Monday, October 31, 2005 11:07 AM by whodurun4
I can't get enough of this findability stuff now. Peter Morville's new book, Ambient Findability, may be worth a good look (see excerpt here ). He also has a good read on The Age of Findability . I also enjoyed Findability: Google is Your Home Page by Read More...
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Web Dev Resources

Posted Monday, October 31, 2005 10:08 AM by whodurun4
After a little more nosing around on his site, I discovered Vitaly Friedman's Web Developer's Handbook has an incredible number of links to resources. It's a little overwhelming at first, but it may be a serviceable launchpad. Read More...
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Moving a SQL Server Database to a New Server

Posted Monday, October 31, 2005 10:05 AM by whodurun4
I just came across this Microsoft article on How To: Move Databases Between Computers That Are Running SQL Server . I haven't had to do this yet, but am foolish if I think it won't happen sometime. Read More...
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Worn Effect and Free Fonts

Posted Monday, October 31, 2005 9:13 AM by whodurun4
Yves Peters presents a nice approach to creating a "worn" effect to fonts in his Tip: The Worn/Weathered/Stamped Look . Vitaly Friedman's 20 Best License-Free Quality Fonts has some worth holding on to. Read More...
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Custom Web Controls in ASP.Net 2.0

Posted Monday, October 31, 2005 8:57 AM by whodurun4
Dino Esposito presents a nice looking overview of this in his ASP.NET Home: Crash Course on Control Development: Deriving New Controls from Existing Classes . Read More...
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More Findability

Posted Thursday, October 27, 2005 10:38 PM by whodurun4
Here's another article on increasing a site's findability with a focus on google. Read More...
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Web Site Redesign, Content and Findability

Posted Thursday, October 27, 2005 9:50 AM by whodurun4
Here's a trio of quality articles from the folks at A List Apart . Cameron Moll argues the merits of site realignment as opposed to redesign. Erin Kissane discusses the removal dead content that has taken on a life of its own in Attack of the Zombie Copy Read More...
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Gradient Maker

Posted Friday, October 21, 2005 8:33 AM by whodurun4
Timothy Marshal-Nichols has created a pretty nice little gradient creator application at the Code Project. One missing feature I would like is a reset option. Read More...
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Paypal and ASP.NET

Posted Friday, October 21, 2005 7:11 AM by whodurun4
Here's a nice how to article on integrating Paypal into an ASP.NET site . Read More...
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N-Tier Design Beginner's How-To

Posted Monday, October 17, 2005 11:00 AM by whodurun4
As Robbe Morris indicates, his guide to creating layers in aplications is only a beginner's level overview, but it's a good one at that. Read More...
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Using ASP.NET 2.0 to Protect Non-ASP.NET Resources

Posted Thursday, October 13, 2005 11:08 AM by whodurun4
Dominick Baier presents some thoughtful insight on this topic in his Protecting non-ASP.NET resources with ASP.NET 2.0 . Read More...
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Media Popup Windows

Posted Thursday, October 13, 2005 9:18 AM by whodurun4
My job hasn't given me much of a chance to work with digital media, but here are a couple interesting links on creating an MP3 player for a site along with some advanced options . Read More...
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Spyware and Adware

Posted Tuesday, October 11, 2005 10:58 AM by whodurun4
PC Magazine has posted a significant book excerpt from Fighting Spyware, Viruses and Malware by Ed Tittel. It's more that I care to read through on the topic at the moment, but certainly looks worth holding on to. Read More...
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Business Site Design

Posted Monday, October 03, 2005 7:51 PM by whodurun4
Here are some links I found on business web site design, mostly from Entrepreneur.com. I really liked their 4 Fatal Website Design Mistakes . It manages to hit most of my major pet peeves. They list reasons to pay someone to do your website in Can I Manage Read More...
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CSS Links

Posted Monday, October 03, 2005 1:47 PM by whodurun4
Here's a list of Urls I've decided are worth revisiting. CSS with hyperlinks: http://www.echoecho.com/csslinks.htm An interesting looking site: http://www.alistapart.com/ http://www.thenoodleincident.com/tutorials/box_lesson/ Here's a link to the W3C Read More...
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