http://www.codeprofessor.com/journal Tutorials on the code aspects of Web Design and Website Management Sun, 01 Apr 2007 21:56:41 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en To supplement the last post stating a slight change of direction of this blog, this post is to let you know that CodeProfessor is moving up to the root directory as of this site. The slight shift in focus is that most of the posts will be about web ... http://www.codeprofessor.com/journal/2007/04/01/new-version-of-codeprofessor/ With all the great new Web 2.0 mashup applications that are coming out - such as Yahoo Pipes, Teqlo, OpenKapow and no doubt others - I realized that I could stick with my agenda of having this site be about “light coding” even if I started discussing these ... http://www.codeprofessor.com/journal/2007/03/27/slightly-new-direction/ Springdoo might sound like what you step in in the park after the snows have melted but it’s actually a pretty neat text, voice and video email service - with a few features to separate it from other similar offerings. You can choose to include whatever combination of content you ... http://www.codeprofessor.com/journal/2006/11/22/springdoo-voice-video-emails-and-video-shoutbox/ I’ve written about Ning in the past. The general ideas is briliant: create a few plug’n'play building blocks, invite deveopers to join for free and let them create their own mashup of functionality. True modular web service creation, with reduced development time - sometimes all it takes is 5-15 minutes ... http://www.codeprofessor.com/journal/2006/10/07/roll-your-own-social-photo-video-sharing-site-with-ning/ Chris Pearson has recently talked about how the information architecture of blogs is lacking because of the reverse chronological view of posts. This tends to limit the experience of visitors, especially if they have come to your site from its web feed subscription. He suggests that bloggers should consider other ... http://www.codeprofessor.com/journal/2006/08/20/revamping-blog-information-design-and-layout/ Communicating with your friends and your blog visitors appears to be a hot activity. First there were regular text comments. Then there were text shoutboxes, followed by audio mailboxes and video clips. Combine them altogether and you have video-commenting shoutboxes. Video shoutboxes let you post your own video clips on your ... http://www.codeprofessor.com/journal/2006/07/31/abazab-video-comments-shoutbox/ One of the most overwhelming aspects of publishing multiple blogs is coming up with suitable page themes. Sure, there are loads of free theme templates available, but you probably want to customize it to give it your own “brand”. If you have limited time, resources, or skills for improving your ... http://www.codeprofessor.com/journal/2006/07/24/applying-the-principle-of-kaizen-to-weblog-website-design/ Looking for a way to brand your website/ weblog without some honking big logo? Try a favicon. Depending on the browser you’re using, if you look up where the URL of this page is displayed, you might see a light green triangular icon with a black spiral. That’s my “favicon” ... http://www.codeprofessor.com/journal/2006/07/23/branding-your-site-with-favicons/ Given how long desktop publishing software has been around, and how powerful it is, have you ever wondered why (X)HTML and CSS have such a hard time producing multiple column web pages? Sure, you can create multiple columns with XHTML tables, but you cannot auto-flow text between columns. Sure, you ... http://www.codeprofessor.com/journal/2006/07/08/do-we-need-multi-column-layout-web-page-designs/ If you’re a fan of the WordPress blogging platform, you’re probably well aware of the wide range of plugins and page themes that are available - many for free. While this weblog is generally aimed at bloggers/ online writers who want to tweak their existing blog platform setup, occasionally you ... http://www.codeprofessor.com/journal/2006/06/30/create-your-own-wordpress-themes-plugins/