Web Design and Development Events to Ponder

    1. cmsproducer.com is OpenID capable [Thu, 31 May 2007 19:18:42 -0400]
      You can now login to cmsproducer.com using your OpenID. The OpenID distributed authentication process enables you to login to any enabled system without having to repetitively create and maintain different accounts and username/password pairs. You can even choose how much information to release to each service you login to... :
    2. Dropping the WWW subdomain from cmsproducer.com [Thu, 31 May 2007 13:02:36 -0400]
      Finally convinced that the www subdomain is not a significant part of the website. Updated the google index at google.com/webmasters , and updated the settings.php file in Drupal. When I updated the .htaccess to generate all paths without www, it resulted in slow performance. So I am relying on google and settings.php for now until get to the bottom of the matter:
    3. Web Standards, the deciding factor [Wed, 30 May 2007 14:50:52 -0400]
      Want to pay peanuts for good looking web design and development? Sure you can, but if you look closer, you will begin to see that there is indeed a negative cost to doing things the easy and cheap way if it is not done the right way. Using Web Standards to create accessible, lean and SEO friendly content is always cheaper in the long-term. bite the bullet and "Do it right the first time":
    4. Ashamed of writing obtrusive Javascript [Wed, 30 May 2007 13:59:58 -0400]
      I hereby declare that I am ashamed to have written inline Javascript functions, and even called functions inline. Unobtrusive javascript exploits the DOM, and may have been previously underused because of the often inaccurate and incorrect Document Object Model (DOM) presented by the poor code quality of HTML and table-based HTML in particular.:
    5. Powercast - as revolutionary as a radio [Tue, 29 May 2007 22:59:09 -0400]
      It is interesting to note with a smile how revolutionary the technology offered by Powercast will change how we do things. Imagine the number of chargers and power adapters that you have for your laptop, PDA, phone, modem, router, shaver, camera, remote controls etc. With Powercast, we will be able to charge and power these appliances wirelessly. This is revolutionary even if it is based on the basic idea that radio-waves/radiation causes molecules to vibrate... just the same way that the sun sends energy to earth, or the way radio broadcast sends transmits to a receiver.: