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September 27, 2006
Dreamweaver and Photoshop Classes
For those of you interested in learning more about some of the tools we use in Web development, Case Learns is offering the following Dreamweaver and Photoshop classes this semester.
September 20, 2006
Benefits of using the preferred first.last e-mail style
I had a request recently to edit a page that contained a list of contact addresses. For the record (and generaly speaking), Heidi and I don't actually do a lot of that for sites outside of our responsibility. When the requests come in though, we usually route the e-mail on to the maintainer of the site in question. This time though, the request came with another question to consider. Wasn't it a 'rule' at Case to use the first.last e-mail naming convention, and shouldn't their department contact list be formatted this way? If it was in fact 'a rule', they...
September 15, 2006
15 Years (give or take) of the WWW
Where I spent my summer vacation. Yesterday was my first day back at work after an Internet-free vacation in Maine on the schooner, Heritage (pictured right). Today I received an e-mail announcing that this year marks the 15th anniversary of the World Wide Web. The message included a link to a timeline of Web history beginning with ideas that first surfaced in 1945. This timeline was part of TechWeb's article series, The Online Supernova: 15 Years Of The World Wide Web. Whether you are new to Web development or have been tinkering with it since the early 1990's, I think...