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Category: Blogging

  • Five essential tools make blogging fun and easy

    Time is short and there’s lots of inter­est­ing things to blog about these days, so why make it harder on your­self than you have to? I’m all about tak­ing the easy way, but unfor­tu­nately as I’ve been learn­ing, TANSTAAFL (There Ain’t No Such Thing As A Free Lunch), and to learn the easy things, I’ve…

  • Deconstructing the Zen Blogger’s Manifesto

    Next to my mon­it­or at work, I have a copy of the Zen Blog­ger­’s Mani­festo, as well as a copy of Web Dogma ’06. Both great slaps-in-the-face when your concept is drift­ing and you need to get back on track. But today, as I was mix­ing up anoth­er cof­fee, I star­ted really pon­der­ing the ‘Mani­festo: Zen…

  • Great tool for the savvy website developer

    If you work in the web­site devel­op­ment field and use fire­fox (as you should) then make sure you down­load and install this handy Search Status tool­bar, which I found whilst read­ing Chris Gar­ret’s site. I’m not one to jump on the  ‘new tool’ band­wag­on just because someone say’s it’s cool, but this one is an…

  • Web Dogma — is it still relevant?

    Last year I linked to an inter­view with Eric Reiss over at Boxes and Arrows. The inter­view explores the thoughts that went into cre­at­ing the Web Dogma: Web Dogma 2006 Any­thing that exists only to sat­is­fy the intern­al polit­ics of the site own­er must be eliminated. Any­thing that exists only to sat­is­fy the ego of the design­er…

  • Hello there…

    Wow, my first post on an ancient blog: red‑5.info, which you can find at Archive.org March 05, 2003 Hello there… Wow, after play­ing with a very cranky serv­er, read­ing a whole swack of online doc­u­ment­a­tion, and swear­ing a lot…I stumbled upon this excel­lent tutori­al. Now to fig­ure out templates. Pos­ted by Brad Gri­er at March 5,…