Wednesday, January 18, 2012
I’m not going dark today, but I am well aware of the potential effects of SOPA/PIPA on web sites. Instead, I choose to share this video that explains the issue. You can take action by signing a petition at Fight for the Future. PROTECT IP / SOPA Breaks The Internet from Fight for the Future [...]
Wednesday, January 4, 2012
Elizabeth (Liz) Castro is a tech writer who has been influential in the growth of web design and the Internet since the 1990′s. Her website is elizabethcastro.com. Her blog is Pigs Gourds and Wikis. She’s a mentor of mine, and a source of information for literally millions of readers who want to know something about [...]
Tuesday, December 27, 2011
Two trends converged during 2011. One from the world of Internet connected devices and the other from web site design world. Statistics show that more people are connected to the Internet through some sort of mobile device than through a desktop or laptop computer. Web designers are scrambling to make sure that web pages are [...]
Tuesday, December 20, 2011
BlogHer announced the second annual BlogHerEntrepreneurs Conference, focused on business, entrepreneurism and technology, which will take place on March 22-23, 2012 in Santa Clara, CA. There are only 100 seats available for this conference, so register quickly. If you’re a woman who has a big idea that involves technology, the Internet or social media, we [...]
Saturday, October 29, 2011
BlogHer is partnering with the folks at Starbucks and Opportunity Finance Network to get the word out about the new “Create Jobs for USA” initiative that will launch on November 1st. Check out this post by Lisa Stone – Here’s how we can Blog Americans Back to Work. Here’s how BlogHer explained it. Starbucks is [...]
BlogHer and many other organizations are lining up behind a campaign to stop bullying. It’s called Stop Bullying: Speak Up. You can join in at Facebook and take a pledge to help. You can also get a widget like this one that allows others to participate. There are a constant stream of blog posts by [...]
Wednesday, August 10, 2011
Are you someone like me who thinks HTML is the most interesting topic on the planet? No? Not surprising, really. Most people have other things to think about. But even those among us – you! – who would rather think about other things have probably noticed a lot of headlines and blog posts that talk [...]
One of the classes I’ve been teaching at UNM Continuing Ed lately is Beginning Dreamweaver. The school uses Adobe Creative Suite 4 in the lab where I teach. The DOCTYPE options in DW 4 are either transitional or strict in HTML 4/XHTML 1.0. Outside of the UNM lab, the most recent version of DW on [...]
Education and Technology folks are gathered in Phildelphia this week for the 2011 conference of the ISTE. The conference is still in progress. Early blog posts about it have been very enthusiastic. ISTE is about advancing education through innovative use of technology. Image Credit: kjarrett. Can you say “excited?” EduTechGeek is excited. All I can [...]
Redbox has testing the idea of video game rentals for several months and concluded that it’s a go. Soon almost all the Redbox kiosks will include popular video games for rental. The price for a video game will be $2 per day. There should be between 22 and 28 video game titles to choose from [...]
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