Add news to your site

FeedSweep from Howell Developments takes care of the scripting. You only have to paste a short piece of code on your page. You can choose which feeds to display.

FeedSweep understands:

• RSS 1.0 and variants
  
• RSS 2.0 and variants
  
• Atom 0.3
  
• Slashdot Backslash

"Including up-to-date information from other web sites and news services bolsters your site's content and lets your visitors know they can come back to get updates on topics that are related to their interests. FeedSweep is a new, free service that allows anyone to include news feeds on his or her web site.

Create a Basic FeedSweep to browse and preview any of these styles, or create an Advanced FeedSweep and make your own style.

FeedSweep uses industry-standard JavaScript to draw news feed information on to web sites, so it is compatible with all the popular web browsers.

Plus, it's free."

Labels: General, HTML

Before the service call

• Restarting the computer
  
• Unplugging the router
  
• Unplugging the modem

Labels: General, Internet, Performance

Choose your own location

Word

you can change the default location by going to Tools>Options. On the "File Locations" tab you can modify the storage location.

Excel

Tools>Options. On the "General" tab change the default location.

PowerPoint

uses Tools>Options and the "Save" tab.

Access

Tools>Options and the "General" tab for Databases and Projects

Publisher

Tools>Options "General".

Outlook

will make you take an underground tour into the Registry to change the location to save e-mail attachments.

FrontPage/Expression Web

appears to require the same sort of spelunking.

Labels: General

Make it easy

"Accessibility, the design of HTML documents for accessibility by people with disabilities, is such an important aspect of the Internet today that the Worldwide Web Consortium (W3C) has adopted a set of guidelines for designing accessible Web sites. The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) closely follow Section 508 of the U.S. Rehabilitation Act.

For some Web sites, adherence to the WCAG is not optional; it is a necessity. Expression Web/FrontPage 2003 has tools for evaluating the accessibility of an entire Web site, identifying elements that violate the guidelines, and finding ways to correct the violations. The accessibility checker provides all of this functionality in a single dialog box.

To access the accessibility checker on the Tools menu click Accessibility (Accessibility Reports). You can use the accessibility checker to check a single page or an entire Web site. The accessibility checker checks for varying levels of accessibility and specifically for adherence to Section 508 of the U.S. Rehabilitation Act. You can check for errors or warnings, and you can add a manual checklist."

MSDN:
Adding Rules to the Accessibility checker

University of Toronto:
Adaptive Technology Resource Center (ATRC)

Labels: General, Layout, Tips

Abrogate Obfuscation

Labels: General, Tips

The top 10

"When you get an email that references an address, look to the right and you'll probably see a link from Gmail pointing you to a map of the address on Google Maps.

Gmail also recognizes email text that refers to an event (e.g., 'dinner tomorrow at 8pm'), and will give you a link to add it to your calendar.

It'll even pick up on package tracking numbers from UPS and link you directly to the tracking page, so you don't have to copy and paste the number. I really like this last one when I order stuff online and want the instant gratification of knowing a package is on its way.

Labels: General, Internet

How to do dat

"Google is so easy to use, why take this online tutorial? If you're like many people, you use only a fraction of Google's features and services. The more you know about how Google works, its features and capabilities, the better it can serve your needs.

Just as the best way to learn how to sail is to sail, the best way to learn how to search with Google is to search with Google. Consequently, this Google tutorial contains many examples and exercises designed to give you practice with the material presented and to inspire you to find amusing or useful information."

Using Search Operators:
Advanced Operators

Google Guide TOC:
Table of Contents

Also:

GoogleTutor.com

and

Googling for XML

also:


Logoogle



See all Topics

internet

Labels: General, Search

Missing feature found

"ieSpell is a free Internet Explorer browser extension that spell checks text input boxes on a webpage. It should come in particularly handy for users who do a lot of web-based text entry (e.g. web mails, forums, blogs, diaries).

Even if your web application already includes spell checking functionality, you might still want to install this utility because it is definitely much faster than a server-side solution. Plus you get to store and use your personal word list across all your applications, instead of maintaining separate ones on each application."

Labels: Addin, General

Eavesdrop on the experts

Labels: General, Internet, Tips