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Some Site News Posts.
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August 26, 2005
Hid the subscribe box and showed the search box in the menu Changed the spotlit items on the homepage.
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In a state of flux
To repeat what once uttered to a confused hostess for a chain restaurant in some suburban mall: “Ummm, just a minute; we’re in a state of flux right now.”
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Registration pro: FT; registration con: Newsbot
Registration is a buzzworthy topic these days, and I’ve just written a longer piece offering evidence for and against it.
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Comments re-enabled
With this entry I give thee comments… (Which are still in beta, bugs can be sent via the feedback form.)
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Redesign update
For those wondering about the redesign of this site, I’ve posted an update
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Rare political rant
I’ve also posted a rare (for this site, at least) political rant about a disturbing trend emerging in the current (Canadian) federal election
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Wha’ happened?
Although part of the reason for the extended quiet here was due to the Digital Web Magazine redesign I was involved in, it mostly had to do with my dad’s unexpected, but much welcomed, transplant surgery. As he recovers — which he is doing quite nicely — we’re keep a blog-record of it to keep people informed (to visit, enter www.saila.com/ and then his first name, in lowercase). Ironically that blog will be pushing this blog to finally repair it’s comment system.
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February 26, 2004
Updated the Creative Commons information to include rel="license" and the RDF content
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February 6, 2004
Removed the small ads and hit counter found under the navigation menu
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September 30, 2003
I’ve added three new sites to my blogroll: Lars Holst’s, dionidium.com, and Anne van Kestere’s Weblog about Markup & Style. (I also removed a few stale sites…) Also, offsite links now open in the current browser window as opposed to a pop-up
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August 8, 2003
Some pages are carrying ads from Google AdSense, as part of a trial run. If you have an questions, please contact saila.com
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Balancing semantic mark-up with effective design
Inspired by postings today on evolt.org’s lists and CSS Discuss, I wrote a new piece on balancing semantic mark-up with effective design.
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Update: few updates coming
Updates here will be a bit quite here for a little while because:
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May 14, 2003
Added five new Web Building Tips on CSS and creating valid HTML
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May 6 2003
My deletion of the global style sheet is causing problems for Safari and Konqueror users, how now see a blank screen on the homepage. Think its due to a lack of support for document.createTextElement but I’m not yet sure
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May 6, 2003
Added rel="bookmark" to the permalinks in Living Can Kill You
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Ending the upgrades
Marking the end of the upgrade campaign for saila.com
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April 23, 2003
The homepage once again displays as it should in older browsers like Netscape 4.x
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Accessify’s Acrobot
Ian Lloyd, of Accessify, has put together an excellent little tool called Acrobot to automatically parse a text sample for abbreviations, and wrap them with the appropriate abbr and acronym elements. Not only that, the resulting mark-up includes the relevant definition.
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April 8, 2003
Fixed the permalinks for Living Can Kill You entries
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April 4, 2003
Added a new column about the site’s impending redesign
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