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A blast from the past for "October, 2006"

1. Add to my RSS reader – Add to my Website clutter!

   Tuesday, October 31st, 2006 | 24 Comments

   RSS feeds are gaining extreme popularity and are unstoppably close to appealing to the mass market. They are everywhere we look and undoubtedly synonymous with “Web 2.0”; they are an older technology who clearly represents the future. However, feeds are still an untamed beast let loose in the wilds of the internet with little control […]

2. Creativity and Innovation – is there a difference?

   Friday, October 27th, 2006 | 2 Comments

   I was looking through my site stats last night and came across an interesting search query that lead to my site; “difference between innovation and creativity”. That really got me thinking – is there a difference? We throw around both words rather frequently in this “Web 2.0” world and I wonder how many of us […]

3. Well Designed RSS feeds – Would all web designers please stand up?

   Monday, October 23rd, 2006 | 26 Comments

   In 1997 Dave Winer developed what is known today as “RSS”. As quickly as RSS was introduced to the world, Atom was released – XML feeds have been evolving the web ever since. RSS was developed and quickly took the world by storm, but was it ever “designed”? Why are web designers around the world […]

4. A little JavaScript to stop the spaming of your blog comments and forms

   Thursday, October 19th, 2006 | 19 Comments

   We all love spiders when they are used for good like the indexing of our sites for Google. However, spiders can be the demise of any open form element when being overwhelmed with automated spam. My recent post on “Hacking Blogger” provided a method for creating custom comments, with one minor flaw! I needed a […]

5. Why every web designer should have a MySpace account

   Wednesday, October 18th, 2006 | 14 Comments

   It is said that statistically, every 300th web visit is a MySpace visit. When you have sites that are redefining the web, not by design or technology, but by popularity — must we pay attention? Sites such as MySpace that are taking the web by storm are inherently changing how users understand and react […]

6. Introducting FeedJs – RSS feeds delivered for everyone, everywhere

   Monday, October 16th, 2006 | No Responses

   FeedJs was created to feed the world. It is a simple JavaScript based RSS delivery utility. The concept was to give everyone the ability to display RSS feeds everywhere — completely environment non-dependent. If you can copy-and-paste into an HTML document, you can now display any RSS feed anywhere you choose.

7. Hacking Blogger: Creating Customized Comments for "Your" Blog

   Monday, October 16th, 2006 | 20 Comments

   It’s your blog and it should behave as you want it too. Blogger is the obvious choice for most when choosing a blogging platform; however being apart of the Blogger family often means being limited to the Blogger family. For those wanting to add customized comments to your Blogger blog, there is now an […]

8. Personal Reflection: why blog, why question, why communicate?

   Friday, October 13th, 2006 | 4 Comments

   Recent events had me questioning the objective and purpose of my blog. I started this blog last January with no idea of what it would transform into; do I even know today? Why do I write, what do I write about and, most importantly, who do I write for? I’ve got two objectives with this […]

9. Why I am Never Happy at Work

   Thursday, October 12th, 2006 | One Response

   I came across a comic strip the other day and it really hit home for me; especially with my work these last few months. It is a “Web 2.0” world we live in and our work is often forced to reflect it.

10. How to include script tags in your Blogger post

    Tuesday, October 10th, 2006 | 2 Comments

    For those using Google’s “Blogger” you’ve probably noticed several limitations. One of the largest limitations is its inability to include script (<script></script>) tags within your post. Well, I’ve decided to be a little creative and come up with an easy to use, easy to implement solution!

11. JavaScript is the new black – Why JS is hot and CSS is not

    Monday, October 9th, 2006 | 13 Comments

    Wow, how time flies. It was just a year ago when table-less web designers were rare and in extreme demand; anyone who had advanced knowledge of CSS could get any job at almost any reasonable price. Those times are officially behind us. The hot new trade, even though its technology is old, is JavaScript. XHTML/CSS […]

12. What do you believe is the role of design?

    Tuesday, October 3rd, 2006 | 5 Comments

    The team over at Webreakstuff prompted the question; what a great question to be asking! How many of us “design” in one way or another and never stop to think about the role of design? I am sure selfishly we’ve asked and answered the question, “what is our role in design”, but have we stopped […]