Allen (of HTMLCenter) managed to make the frontpage over at Digg for three days in a row, with three different articles. In his latest article he reviews the Digg-effect in terms of traffic, but not solely on CenterNetworks but also on the services he reviewed in his over those three days.
To plug into Allen’s brain, follow this link:
http://www.centernetworks.com/digg-effect-downstream-traffic
Adobe has launched a pretty neat tool, kuler, this week.
Just when I thought it was safe to start using my computer again, I found out just how wrong I was.
For the last six months or so, I had been saying to myself that I really needed to get a new hard drive for my home PC. I was starting to run out of disk space, and had had my current drives in the computer for more than five years. About a month or so ago, my primary hard drive failed. I turned on my computer one day, and it wouldn’t boot. I checked the BIOS and found that it was no longer detecting the drive.
So, I went out that night and finally got the hard drive I had been wanting for a while. I pulled out my dead 40 gigabyte drive, replaced it with the 40 gig drive I had been using as my slave drive, and put in a brand-spanking-new 300 gig Seagate drive that I got on sale (using the new IDE cable that came with it).
I used the software that came with the drive to partition it and get it all set up, moved all of my important files from my 40 gig drive (the one that used to be my slave, and is now my primary drive) onto the new drive, and got Windows and all of my software installed onto my 40 gig drive. Then, when I tried to install SuSE (my Linux build), I found that the partitioning software that came with my drive is a piece of crap that somehow simply creates an LVM on the drive without actually partitioning it. So, back to the drawing board, I had to move all of my files back off of the brand new drive and onto the old 40 gig drive. I used gParted to re-format the 300 gig drive. I then moved all of the files back off of my 40 gig drive and onto my new drive again. I got SuSE installed, and everything seemed to be fine and dandy. It only took me a week or two to get everything completely straightened out, and I hadn’t really lost any important files, so I was a happy camper.
However, I had no idea that my problems were about to get a whole lot worse.
I will be the first to admit that I am slowly, and with much trepidation, moving into the new world of web design. The whole concept can seem very daunting to someone who taught himself, more than ten years ago, everything he knows about designing for the web.
With the advent of XHTML standards, accessibility standards, web 2.0, CSS-driven sites, and everything else that goes into the new breed of web site, there is a lot to learn for someone that came into this whole scene, guns-a-blazing, back when the most annoying background image won the prize for the best web site, and scrolling marquees were a wonder to behold.
I have not been totally ignorant to the progress being made in the area of web standards over the last ten years, but I did feel, on more than one occasion, that I had been living under a rock for a while. I got that feeling five or six years ago when I first discovered the wonders of DHTML (the clever mix of HTML, javascript and CSS), and I felt that way again a little over a year ago when I became aware of “valid” HTML. As far as I had been concerned, up until that point, if my pages looked basically the same in all of the browsers, then my HTML was “valid”. Boy was I wrong. After a year of hard work, and dealing with about 15 different validation applications, I feel that I have that particular battle won (just in time for Firefox 2.0 and IE 7 to come out and change all of the rules again, I’m sure). However, I hadn’t even begun to delve into the “accessibility” standards that everyone’s been raving about for the last year or two. Again, with much trepidation, I began doing research into the hurdles I would have to overcome in order to propel myself forward into the new era of web design. What I found, however, was not nearly as scary as I had feared.
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