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Hosting Info

2010-03-02T03:06:00.000-08:00

Who dat provider?

Find out which provider a site is using.
Find out which internet providers are most reliable.
Find out which operating system is being used by which provider.
Find out . . .

Netcraft.com

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PDF Form Fill

2010-02-23T03:19:00.000-08:00

Free tool

Have you ever been stymied by this PDF warning?

You can enter data, but you can't save the file with the new information.
Nuance has a free answer:

"Fill and save PDF forms - Most other PDF viewers do not enable you to fill and save PDF forms without support from a premium product.
Nuance PDF Reader provides frequently used annotation tools, letting you highlight, cross-out, and underline text."

Nuance PDF Reader

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Google Searches II

2010-02-21T03:29:00.000-08:00

Tips

Here's a link to a PDF file that shows how to maximize Google searches.

Parameters Cheat Sheet

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Quotes and Apostrophes

2010-02-13T03:10:00.000-08:00

HTML codes

A left double quote is &ldquo;
A right double quote is &rdquo ;
A left single quote is &lsquo ;
A right single quote is &rsquo ;

OfZenandComputing.com

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Fast Interchange

2010-01-28T03:08:00.000-08:00

7 day URL

Go to http://cl1p.net and then:

Enter a URL that starts with http://cl1p.net.
example:http://cl1p.net/assuming/

Paste in anything you want.
Some text, links, etc. Click 'Save' when done.

On any other computer open a browser to the same URL.
You will find the information you entered in step 2.

Do more with CL1P.net. Just open any URL that starts with http://cl1p.net and you can...

Create a notebook
Have a conversation
Create a community

Cl1p.net

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Character Codes

2010-01-25T03:47:00.000-08:00

HTML and ALT+

Here's another table with the codes needed to insert characters that do not appear on the keyboard:

Keyboard Shortcuts

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CSS Coding

2010-01-21T03:36:00.000-08:00

Put by the keyboard

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a simple way to define styles (e.g. fonts, colors, spacing) on Web pages.
Of course there is coding involved. Here is a printable cheat sheet you can keep close at hand.

LeslieFranke.com

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Scroll Text

2010-01-12T03:52:00.000-08:00

Automated GIF

WigFilp.com

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No Home in IE

2009-12-21T03:39:00.000-08:00

Blanked out

You can open Internet Explorer to a blank page.

Sometimes your normal home page may be too busy, or slow to load when you just want to pop out to a different location.

This trick will give you a blank slate to paste in a new URL.

Create a new Desktop shortcut
(Right click an empty spot on the desktop and choose New>Shortcut)
Copy the following, and paste it as the target for the shortcut:
```
"C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe" nohome
```
Name the shortcut something like Blank IE

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Sparklines

2009-12-09T03:29:00.000-08:00

Quick graphic reinforcement

A graph or chart can give the reader a visual representation of a great deal of data. Concepts or results can be more easily grasped by a well formatted graphic.

Charts, usually, take up more space in a document than is absolutely required.

Edward Tufte has come up with the concept of Sparklines (Sparklines:Intense, Word-sized Graphics)
.
These are small graphs about the same height and width as common words. They are not out of place in the text of a document.

Sparklines give the reader a snapshot of the data that quickly supports the material being discussed.

See:
Bisantz Sparklines

The Sparkmaker can create Sparklines for Word, Excel, or PowerPoint. They can also be produced in HTML.

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What's the Expression?

2009-12-08T03:37:00.000-08:00

FrontPage, we knew you well

Microsoft has retired FrontPage in favor of an application called Expression Web Designer.

It is part of four programs that will make up the Expression suite.

Channel9.MSDN.com has a series of videos on the quartet.

Here's the one on FrontPage/ Expression
Expression - Part Four: Web

Also:
Expression - Part One: The Overview

Expression - Part Two: Design

Expression - Part Three: Blend

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Color News

2009-11-15T03:06:00.000-08:00

A multidiscipline subject

Here is a study about how color effects a reader's choice of concentration.

It was intended for newspaper publishers, but the same knowledge can be used in Web design, PowerPoint, or any other reporting application. Word and Excel will also benefit.

Color, Contrast, and Dimension in News Design

ColorProject

The Poynter Institute is a school for journalists, future journalists, and teachers of journalists.
Poynter.org

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Cheap Certification

2009-11-11T03:43:00.000-08:00

Bargain deal

Becoming certified can be expensive and time consuming.
Here's a way to be certified as an HTML Developer, or ASP Developer.

Study and train for your certificates at no cost
Study and train for your certificates when it is convenient
Study and train for your certificates from your own computer
Complete your studies in a few weeks
Take your exams over the Internet

W3 Schools

Even if you don't take the test, the tutorials are free!

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Spell Check Site

2009-10-28T03:39:00.000-07:00

It's EZ

Thomas Brunt's Outfront.net has a number of web developer tips.

Shirley Wood wrote an article about "Spell checking your web site"

FrontPage uses the same dictionary as Word and Excel.

A spell checker, however, only goes so far:

Eye halve a spelling checker
It came with my pea sea
It plainly marcs four my revue
Miss steaks eye kin knot sea.
Eye strike a key and type a word
And weight four it two say
Weather eye am wrong oar write
It shows me strait a weigh.
As soon as a mist ache is maid
It nose bee fore two long
And eye can put the error rite
It's rare lea ever wrong.
Eye have run this poem threw it
I am shore your pleased two no
Its letter perfect awl the weigh
My checker tolled me sew.

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Plan for your Site

2009-10-16T03:15:00.000-07:00

Outline then do

Always a good idea. Pre-plan and then do. Too often projects are started without a plan and too often plans are made and not carried through.

"When creating a website there are several different tools and methods available, but it is important to plan the steps. This guide will help outline the important steps required for website creation and promotion. Information in this document should help readers avoid many pitfalls and save time throughout the process."

Inception and Planning
Design
Construction
Promotion

CompTechDoc.org:
Website Creation Tutorial

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Update Excel on the Web

2009-10-11T08:03:00.000-07:00

Auto Republish

You can save an Excel file as a Web page and makes it easy to update data in a worksheet that has already been saved to the Web.

Here is how to save an Excel file as a Web page and set it up it for automatic updates:

Click Save As Web page from the File menu. (click the Office logo in 2007)
In the Save As dialog box, click the Publish button. (click Publish, Create Document Workspace in 2007)
Use the drop down arrow beside Choose to select what you want to publish.
In the File name field, enter a file name.
Place a check beside Auto Republish every time this worksheet is saved. This way the data will be updated each time you make changes to the worksheet.
Select Open published page in Web browser to view the data in your Web browser after you click Publish.
Click Publish.

Lockergnome.com:
Save Excel as Web Page

DevX.com:
Four Ways to Use Excel on the Web

Penn State:
Interactive Excel on the Web

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Web Furnishings

2009-10-10T03:09:00.000-07:00

Clips, buttons, templates

ZeroWeb.org accepts submissions and provides free downloads of web ingredients.

Website Layouts: Clean; Heavy; Strange; Premium

Web Graphics

Clipart

Zeroweb.org -- Free website layouts and templates, clipart, graphics and website tools.

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Unicode is Big

2009-10-06T03:22:00.000-07:00

More symbols and letters

This free download lets you see and select more characters in the Unicode set. The Unicode Character Grid shows all assigned characters and private use characters in Unicode 5.2.

Here's a blog covering Scripts, Unicode, Character Encoding and BabelStone Stuff
BableStone Blog

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Who dat?

2009-10-04T03:50:00.000-07:00

And Where

Let's say you wanted to set up a web site for your friend Bob, who lives in Bosnia-Hercegovina. Would you know that the root zone code was .ba and that the contact person has an office at:

Universtiy Telinformatic Centre (UTIC)
Zmaja od Bosne 8 (objekat 33)
Sarajevo 71000
Bosnia-Hercegovina

See:
International Assigned Numbers Association:
Root-Zone Whois Information

There is also a page that defines such top level domains as .COM and .NET.
Generic Top-Level Domains

BTW.
Sorry feline fanatics,

"The .cat domain is reserved for the Catalan linguistic and cultural community and is sponsored by Fundació puntCat"

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Collection of the Good Ones

2009-09-29T03:01:00.000-07:00

Striking sites

Here is a collection of well designed sites that make use of CSS.

How do you pick the sites?

Well first they have to be done in CSS. Tables can only be used for tabular data. Second they just have to look good to me. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder so I do not expect every site that is posted to be liked by everyone or even anyone. Also do not expect a site to be posted just because you sent it in.

With the large amount of submissions I get daily and the increasing number of showcase sites, getting your site into the Vault will now be more challenging. I look for use of color, typography, whitespace, IA and how they all fit overall in the site's structure.

CSSVault.com

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Should Employees Blog?

2009-09-21T03:53:00.000-07:00

What are the rules?

Blogging has spread throughout the internet. It's not just geeks yelling in an echo room or kids babbling in MySpace. Corporate blogging is a reality.

What should the guidelines be?

Michael Hyatt has put together some suggestions for his company:

Like many companies, we have struggled with what guidance to give to our bloggers. I personally checked with several companies. None had formalized a set of blogging rules or written guidance.
One Microsoft blogger told me that the only rule his company provided was, "Be smart." I thought we probably needed a little more guidance than that, so several of us cooked up a list of "Blogging Terms and Conditions." Our corporate counsel has also had a crack at it.

Working Smart
The alternative to working hard!:
Blog Terms and Conditions

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Relative Font Sizes

2009-09-16T03:49:00.000-07:00

What size are your relatives?

Relative font sizes make websites more accessible and easier to read - but they're not much help unless the person using the site can find a way to actually change text size.

Here's a simple solution for text resizing:

Power To The People: Relative Font Sizes
Article by Bojan Mihelac

Original link from Lockergnome

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HTML Tutorials

2009-09-05T03:29:00.000-07:00

How to HTML

Ezpression Web/FrontPage can quickly create good looking web sites. If you want more versatility and the ability to edit the underlying HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language ), look at these sites:

HTML Code Tutorial (NCSA )

Chris's FrontPage Info Web

Outfront Webmasters

And others:

FrontPage Solutions

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Is It Christmas Yet?

2009-09-01T03:57:00.000-07:00

Ideas to consider

All right, when this was posted, August was just put to bed. Still if you are going to do something for the holidays, you might want to start now.

37signals.com has a good selection of suggestions, tutorials, and links the will help you decorate your site. Elves are extra.

37signals is here to help. In these pages you'll find dozens of ideas for improving the holiday customer experience at your site. Each idea is accompanied by examples taken from top retail sites (we've visited hundreds of sites over the past two holiday seasons seeking smart techniques).

Is your Site Ready?

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