We were supposed to have a 2hr layover in Denver. Now going on 3 with the sign still just blinks “DELAYED” At least Luis and Karen are here to keep me company.

The age of video on the Web is here! Both content creators and users have high expectations and you may become caught in the middle. Learn how to create an accessible media interface that will allow your institution to deliver high quality Flash video with closed captioning, convey a consistent design across your Web presence, […]

The HighEdWeb 2008 conference: “Infinite Solutions” is from October 5-8 in Springfield Missouri. This year, I will be wearing several hats: Presenter [UAD5] This will be the second year that I am presenting at HighEdWeb and the presentation will be similar to the previous one. However, there will also be a lot of new information […]

Is that they are used to manage both content and presentation. Here is a good example One of our contribute users simply wanted to center a heading:

I was asked to give a presentation on “new media” during the 2008 ELC Inservice. Beforehand, I contacted a few of the faculty that planned to attend. They helped me decide to go the 101 route which ended up working well. For each topic, we covered: What is this thing? The good, the bad… Getting […]

Rob Beschizza over at boingboing gadgets writes: Anyone who writes will eventually be guilty of writing something bad. Most do so only incidentally, as a result of error or ignorance. It’s a sin of professional writers, however, to be systematically bad. Following are some of the worst things that I’ve ever done … and worse! […]

Silverlight is Microsoft’s competitor to adobe flash. On many computers you will need to download the plugin in order to watch the olympics online. What strange, is that the plugin is an artificial requirement for mac and non ie browsers. On a PC with IE7, you get a “proceed without plugin” option. Here is a […]

I gave a little talk at our monthly “All Developers Meeting” today. The topic was web optimization. Recently we setup http compression on our servers and I decided to take a look at how much bandwidth we save via all of our optimization/compression techniques. Using our academic programs page as a sample, I ran the […]

A List Apart is currently conducting their yearly survey: The Survey, 2008 Calling all designers, developers, information architects, project managers, writers, editors, marketers, and everyone else who makes websites. It is time once again to pool our information so as to begin sketching a true picture of the way our profession is practiced worldwide. All […]

So you have some feeds and want browsers to be able to find them using autodiscovery. The problem Unfortunatly, you have static pages and would have to update each one to add the <link> tag. At PCC, we have a site composed of tens-of-thousands of pages. Some are static, some are dynamic applications we can […]