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Monday, June 10, 2002


THESE GUYS ARE STILL AWFULLY GOOD IN LOTS OF AREAS

A New System for Storing Data: Think Punch Cards, but Tiny. I.B.M. scientists have created a potential replacement for computer hard disks that can store the equivalent of 200 CD-ROM's on a chip the size of a postage stamp. By Kenneth Chang. [New York Times: Science]

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SCOTT MEETS REAL NEEDS WITH THIS SORT OF POST

Marketing 101: Your Very First Website in 5 Steps. This article will seem remedial to some of my readers.  It's assumes that you are a small business that is either new to the web or just plain new and walks you through the step by step process of developing a website.  I wrote this for someone who is just getting started as a small business website and, since I am handling their hosting, I didn't cover very much about hosting.  I did cover lots of other basics including how to do a free U.S. trademark search. [The FuzzyBlog!]

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ED CONE NAILS IT

Here are some quotes:

So I feel comfortable that if I say something isn't clear on Radio, even if the folks who make it think it is clear, it is probably not going to be that clear to many, many users.

What if you want to do more than that? Then it gets more complicated. Radio is a powerful tool, but even some of the stuff you might expect to be simple may not be not simple to the average person.

A programmer would perhaps laugh at me for my discomfort and fear about really screwing things up while messing with the code. But the rest of the world would understand. Same for the permanent links you see at the left margin of this page--easy when you know how to do it, intimidating if you don't.

The directions for doing these things aren't that helpful to the nonprogrammer. Step three in editing your homepage template, for example, is this: "Make the change. (It's HTML)." Great. Most of us don't speak code. We see a bunch of mystifying letters and numbers and symbols and haven't the first clue how to make any changes therein.

I would recommend Radio to both the power blogger and the hobbyist.

Ditto, Ed. [EdCone.com]

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RADIO DOCUMENTATION?

Is there any documentation for the features in Radio that lay out the placement of items on the final weblog? I've seen a list of macros, but I don't know of anything in them that impacts lay-out. Is Radio documented somewhere?  

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BACK AND FORTH

Some say learn all you can about HTML. Others say learn CSS. Still others say learn Dreamweaver MX. What's a blogger to do?

Book Excerpt: Cascading Style Sheets. This glasshaus title examines the use of CSS to control the display of Web pages. Our excerpts from chapter 1 begin with a brief look at the history of HTML; with special emphasis on the factors leading up to the need for CSS-based development. [WebReference News]  

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