Exploring and understanding audience, encouraging communication, announcing excerpts and celebrating book releases. Just basically talking about websites... and the occasional cupcake.
I recently got a query from a Wax client who wanted to know how to change her WordPress self-installation to only do a single-line-space each time she hits the Enter key. She would much rather do her double-spacing manually.
It’s a straight-forward challenge, with a not-quite-as-straightforward solution.
NOTE: if I get too technical for you in this [...]
Back when Google was just baby talk and Netscape (remember that?) was The Way to get around, web designers regularly embedded keywords into meta data. There were rules against keyword spamming, and consultants charged hefty fees for optimizing them. In the first edition of the book I co-wrote with Kelly Goto (©2001) we even offered [...]
If a site is giving you trouble, suspect your browser first. Just this morning we received this from a client trying to use the custom database web-app that we built for her:
I don’t think it’s my computer, because it only happens with the database – but when I try to check the info link on [...]
note: for part one of this post, go here
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I finally did it. I took the plunge and reformatted my computer. I had MEANT to do it two weeks ago, but well, you know… life happens. As I’ve mentioned before, reformatting a computer means a time commitment — if you want to be able to be [...]
I use my computer hard. Daily use includes the obvious email, browser, word processer, and music player programs, of course, but also programs such as those used for image, sound, and video editing, site-updating, time-tracking, finance-tracking, etc. Many of these programs are resource-hungry, and I surely have programs installed that I no longer use or [...]
