April 25, 2007
Converting Word documents to HTML
While I write my own copy for this blog, and some of my other sites, much of what I post on the Web is written by others. This material comes to me in a variety of formats, from Open Office to .pdf files, but most of it is in Microsoft Word, and all of it needs to be converted to HTML. There are a variety of ways to do this, but I'll just review three, two common approaches and my preferred method.
April 19, 2007
Embedding Flash Objects for Internet Explorer
Due to a lawsuit between Microsoft and Eolas, Internet Explorer no longer processes
April 10, 2007
My media consumption diet
Sandy Piderit recently posted her media consumption diet in an effort to share ideas and propagate the meme initiated by Jeremiah Owyang. As part of this effort, she tagged me to contribute.
April 02, 2007
Don't say "click here." Include your links in context.
After more than a decade of Web development, most of us have gotten used to adding links within the context of our text—just as I did in this sentence. Yet despite our good habits, awareness and best intentions, many links are still awkwardly managed.