A highly fascinating topic of linguistic discussion is in lipograms. For anybody not famliar with what a lipogram is, I shall simplify it. A lipogram is: Anything that you draft (usually a paragraph at minimum) which wholly skips a symbol of all writing symbols. A…
I ran across an interesting site for anyone who is interested in seeing a charted frequency of their name (or comparison of other names with similar spelling) over a long time period. It’s interesting as a mild reference for quick searches regarding possible etymology study…
I found this list of things that ‘Only a Southerner’ knows. It’s a lot like those lists of ‘You know you’re a Southerner if…’ so enjoy. I’m a Texan, and so very much of this is accurate that I find it very entertaining. I love…
While browsing around, InspiringMessages.org caught my eye. I mention it not because it has good code (which it does not), but because it really grabbed my attention immediately. This site was obviously made by someone who has a natural knack for usability practices. I love…
As I’m working on my book one topic that I’m trying to emphasize keeps coming to mind – that topic is the difference in how browsers will render the same page. I think that far too many people see this as a huge problem, when…
Today I read an article, in my local newspaper, about a woman who had left her new husband when he forgot to celebrate their one year anniversary. She went to stay with her mother, but doesn’t know if he’s figured out yet why she took…
You’ve heard of the olden days when people would hunt for potential link partners. Well, those days are long gone and smart web masters are moving on to greater things, while decreasing their reciprocal link building effort. If you are wondering what this new technique…
If you’ve checked out your website in Mozilla Firefox or one of the other non-IE browsers, you may have been shocked to discover that NONE of the ‘alt’ tags you spent so long preparing are working. What browser do you use to check your web…
I’ve just completed working on a new template that I’m calling Dark Rose. This template is free, open-source, following only the Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 license. The template is a CSS based, table-less layout and validate to XHTML 1.0 Strict. It uses two images, one…
As recently posted, I broke my last blog layout. It no longer was working for IE, but instead of fixing it right away, I decided to just change things up and finally implement a new theme. I had wanted to change the layout for a…