http://www.shooflydesign.org/buzz/ News and updates on web design, both specific to ShooFlyDesign, and from elsewhere. en-us joe@chellman.org 2010-03-27T20:17:44-06:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://www.shooflydesign.org/buzz/past/secure_really_does_mean_secure.html I recently had occasion to book a hotel in San Francisco. I don’t do a lot of traveling involving hotels, usually staying with family or friends I’m visiting wherever I’m going, so I don’t do this a lot. This time,... 758@http://www.shooflydesign.org/buzz/ The Web At Large 2010-03-27T20:17:44-06:00 http://www.shooflydesign.org/buzz/past/drupal_camp_chicago_2009.html I attended Drupal Camp Chicago at the beginning of December and had a great time. It was the first conference I’ve been to since CHI back when I was a graduate student at Carnegie Mellon’s HCII. I don’t go to... 752@http://www.shooflydesign.org/buzz/ Drupal 2010-01-25T04:57:36-06:00 http://www.shooflydesign.org/buzz/past/how_i_feel_about_seo.html Yeah, I guess I basically feel the same way Derek Powazek does about SEO. In short: the good stuff is obvious to good web developers, and the rest of it doesn’t work. There are a lot of companies out there... 749@http://www.shooflydesign.org/buzz/ 2009-10-14T05:55:34-06:00 http://www.shooflydesign.org/buzz/past/google_ignores_keyword_meta_tags_and_you_should_too.html You can’t say it much more simply than this: Google does not use the keywords meta tag in web ranking. That’s straight from the mothership’s mouth. I’m often asked what to do about keywords on pages, and this says definitively... 746@http://www.shooflydesign.org/buzz/ The Web At Large 2009-09-22T17:47:15-06:00 http://www.shooflydesign.org/buzz/past/sticky_table_headers_ala_drupal_6_for_drupal_5.html I’m starting to build new websites with Drupal 6 now that the juiciest modules (CCK and Views especially) are nearing stable releases, but Drupal 5 is still very widespread, so I expect a lot of people will be using it... 717@http://www.shooflydesign.org/buzz/ Drupal 2008-09-01T08:07:06-06:00 http://www.shooflydesign.org/buzz/past/building_a_full_site_with_wordpress.html Most of the time when I build a website and use a content management system, I use Drupal. I recently finished a site that had basic needs, and decided to give WordPress a go. As I was going through it,... 689@http://www.shooflydesign.org/buzz/ Software 2008-01-22T02:05:37-06:00 http://www.shooflydesign.org/buzz/past/support_html_email_standards.html I’ve generally not been a fan of HTML email. The main reason is how much easier it makes phishing, link obfuscation, and other evil email scams. That said, I realize that it has a lot of good uses when employed... 683@http://www.shooflydesign.org/buzz/ Web Standards 2007-12-03T23:25:41-06:00 http://www.shooflydesign.org/buzz/past/drupal_development_dont_give_modules_and_themes_the_same_name.html That about says it, doesn’t it? I was building a module for a site I’m working on, and I gave a module the same name as the current theme. One of the modules purposes was to make some blocks for... 668@http://www.shooflydesign.org/buzz/ Drupal 2007-07-03T11:07:13-06:00 http://www.shooflydesign.org/buzz/past/embedding_wordpress.html (aka WordPress as a content editor for the really, really lazy) The best way to create websites that users can manage themselves is to use a proper content management system like Drupal (our current favorite). This is exactly the right... 647@http://www.shooflydesign.org/buzz/ Software 2006-11-13T23:40:46-06:00 http://www.shooflydesign.org/buzz/past/ze_frank_on_web_developers.html At ShooFlyDesign, we love Ze Frank. In today’s installment of the show, he talks about web developers. Beware.... 646@http://www.shooflydesign.org/buzz/ Inspiration 2006-11-09T17:17:06-06:00 http://www.shooflydesign.org/buzz/past/color_management_with_save_for_web_in_photoshop_elements.html Update August 28, 2006 — I am again questioning the ability of Photoshop Elements 2 to produce remotely accurate colors using Save For Web. I’m following my own instructions, starting with sRGB IEC61966-2.1 documents, and getting the dull colors again.... 638@http://www.shooflydesign.org/buzz/ Software 2006-08-25T01:41:41-06:00 http://www.shooflydesign.org/buzz/past/tunecore.html Tunecore looks like an interesting, and much-needed, service for people who are interested in digital music distribution through iTunes and other music services, but don’t have a CD. I’ve just read about it now, but I want to post now... 629@http://www.shooflydesign.org/buzz/ The Web At Large 2006-03-18T23:53:15-06:00 http://www.shooflydesign.org/buzz/past/force_apple_mail_mailapp_not_to_use_html_mail.html We get a lot of email here at ShooFlyDesign HQ. A lot. We also write a lot of email. And we prefer our email without the HTML — which is what allows people to make text bold, colorful, add images... 626@http://www.shooflydesign.org/buzz/ Apple/Mac 2006-02-23T00:05:23-06:00 http://www.shooflydesign.org/buzz/past/pear_installation_on_a_shared_host.html A web host a client is using (who shall remain nameless) has been messing things up for us. Long story short, I needed to install my own copy of PEAR on the server, without SSH access, and without being able... 623@http://www.shooflydesign.org/buzz/ Programming 2006-02-13T13:51:27-06:00 http://www.shooflydesign.org/buzz/past/net_development_and_gotchas.html On a recent project, I had to learn and develop some code using .NET. This was my first experience using a Microsoft framework for anything. I wouldn’t call it an entirely pleasant experience, but it was also not entirely unpleasant.... 619@http://www.shooflydesign.org/buzz/ Programming 2006-01-19T01:59:36-06:00