Category Archives: Webmastering

For much of yesterday I watched the poorman’s broadband, television. Today I have it turned off. It’s just getting repetitive now. Yesterday and today I was able to send e-mail, chat with friends and make changes to the sites I … Continue reading →

Now that the browser makers are finally playing by the rules, we must see to it that HTML editing programs generate W3C valid markup. It’s time for round two of the standards wars.

There turns out to be a valid way of hiding style rules from Internet Explorer 4 for Windows. I just tested it myself last night as I installed Windows 98 for the umpth time. You just write:@import “filepath/filename.css”; as opposed … Continue reading →

Web content management systems are usually a set of server scripts and applications that automate many of the tasks of administrating and updating a web site. eGrail is a company based on the premise that these tools will one day … Continue reading →

Perhaps some of you have noticed that when I link to stories on the big media sites like Ziff-Davis, the BBC or the New York Times I tend to link to the printer-friendly, single-page low-bandwidth versions. I do this for … Continue reading →

So now there is a repository for Greymatter tweaks. For example, now there is a way to fix the unescaped ampersands Greymatter generates. Since I know perl, I fixed the ampersand thing on my own but it is good to … Continue reading →

I just posted my first bug to Bugzilla!

A growing number of software companies are making web tools that use something very similar to Microsoft’s recently removed smart tag technology. All these things, since the now defunct Flyswat and Third Voice onwards, seem to use JavaScript or JScript … Continue reading →

For over 3 years the Web Standards Project harped, cajoled and harangued browser makers to build stuff that supported W3C recommendations of HTML, DOM and CSS. Finally, nearly 5 years after the CSS1 recommendation, browsers that support standards are coming … Continue reading →

I moved the entry index and search form to the right-hand column on all journal pages to make them easier to get to. Thinking of finally implementing my Chumbe Bandia ideas as an EM-RPG. Thinking this dot-com downturn is finally … Continue reading →