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Category Archives: OpenSource

Htaccess Magic: 4 Tips for a Better Website

 Congratulations! You have a website! Now that you have one, you also have the responsibility of taking care of one. Website optimization is not always easy, but it can be with basic knowledge of how they work. One tool you can use to optimize your website is an .htaccess file. Web servers that use Apache [...]

Review: Moodle for Dummies

product Moodle For Dummies (For Dummies (Computer/Tech), written by Radana Dvorak is aimed at the institutional user who is required to use Moodle instead of one of the education management systems like Blackboard. It is not meant for the individual user who might want to set up Moodle on his or her own server. The [...]

BlueGriffon

A new web standards compliant WYSIWYG web editor is now available at bluegriffon.org. Features include that it’s open source and free, plus it does: HTML5 – including forms, video and audio CSS3 – including D Transforms, Transitions, Shadows, Linear/Radial Gradients and Repeating Gradients, Border Images, Columns, Flex Box Model SVG MathML a user interface to [...]

How to Find the Right Online Shopping Cart for You

An efficient and user-friendly online shopping cart is an essential tool for any business or website owner involved in e-commerce product sales. But with so many online shopping carts available, it can be hard to decide which cart application will be up to the task at hand. To begin with, there is the issue of [...]

Useful Links: Open source, STEM programs, iPhone unavailable–sometimes

Say Hello to the Open Source Decade by Laura Scott. Open Source has been around for quite some time, but odds are most people you ask won’t know what “open source” is. This isn’t because open source is obscure, but rather it has slipped into the mainstream, and unless you’re already in the know, there’s [...]

Summary of eHow articles for August

The image above is a Wordle, and shows you some of the things I was talking about here lately. Below is what I did at eHow in August. How to Visit the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta How to Use Tweetube How to Resize a YouTube Video How to Connect Several Twitter Tweets How to Reuse [...]

Useful Links: Open Web Tools, HTML 5 nav, CSS 3 Cheat Sheet

The Open Web Tools Directory lists the best available tools for Design, Code, Test, Debug, Deploy and Docs in a very cool HTML 5 display using the canvas element. HTML 5: nav ambiguity resolved at zeldman.com is interesting because The Zeldman has the same problem I have with the HTML 5 specs, and also because [...]

Women in Tech: Addison Berry

Meet Addison Berry, a woman who traveled a roundabout path into tech and is now one of the most visible leaders in the open source content management world of Drupal. My thanks for Addi for agreeing to answer some questions and let us get to know her. Q: Let’s start off with Drupal. You work [...]

Women in Tech: Shelley Powers

This is the first of several interviews with women in technology. Today you’ll learn about Shelley Powers. Shelley is perhaps best known as a writer. Her most recent books are Learning JavaScript and Painting the Web. She’s also a programmer and web developer, and she applies a powerful and logical mind to everything she does. [...]

Useful links: Palin, ARIA, Open Office, CSS Systems

Palin’s experience in just 12 minutes. An analysis from Lawrence Lessig. ARIA on the fast track. Ian Lloyd’s thoughts on the Web Accessiblity Initiative’s Accessible Rich Internet Applications Suite and what it might do to validation. Open Office for Aqua. Burningbird puts the open source office suite through its paces and finds it a good [...]