Category: Web development

Calling All Canuck Web Developers and Designers

Jay Gilmore, of SmashingRed, and I have been discussing the availability (and/or feasibility) of Canadian-based web design conference. Jay posted on his blog the following: To all the Canadian developers and designers for the web, I noted a post on [thelist] the mail list of evolt.org wanting to know if their are any Canadian Web… Continue reading Calling All Canuck Web Developers and Designers

Recently added files

I’ve been making some changes on our website that last few weeks to help improve the usability of our website and make information available in different ways. Most recently, the feature I added scans a directory for files that have been uploaded in the last seven days. It then lists the filename, adds a link… Continue reading Recently added files

Horizontal Scrolling

I like to use my six-year-old daughter as a reminder of how basic computer users use the web. This morning she was trying to use a site that was designed for a 900×600 browser viewing size. Even though we have our monitor’s resolution set to 1024×768 and our browser is maximised, we also have the… Continue reading Horizontal Scrolling

Stolen Logo

I came across the University of Dayton’s MyLife at UD site today and for some reason the little header icons they were using seemed very familiar. I could have sworn I had seen them before. So, I went browsing to Dan Cederholm‘s website because it looked like something he would have made. I browsed through… Continue reading Stolen Logo

Spruced Up Site Maps v2

Some website developers are familiar with my ALA article “Spruced Up Site Maps” where I use CSS to format a plain site map in a way that resembles something more like a structured directory. Due to a comment from an ALA reader, I added JavaScript later on to the site map in an effort to… Continue reading Spruced Up Site Maps v2

Restricting Input

My six-year-old daughter was playing on Strudel Doodle this morning. It’s basically an online drawing application where users can submit their drawings for a prize. So my daughter arrived at the page and clicked on “GO DOODLE!”. Then she clicked on the redundant “START DOODLING” button on the following page. Then she clicked on the… Continue reading Restricting Input

AJAX and ColdFusion

AJAX seems to be all the rage recently, what with all the hype behind GMail, Google Maps, flickr, and the like. I’ve been wanting to dabble in it to test out the waters before I implemented anything major. Cameron Adams recently published an AJAX article over at SitePoint, and it sold me on giving it… Continue reading AJAX and ColdFusion

Hot Pepper Branding

My branding efforts must be working. Recently I have had two visitors to my site who came here after searching Google for “red pepper kim siever” and “HOT PEPPER KIM SIEVER”. I also a visitor who had searched for “hot pepper blog”, but it’s difficult to say if they were searching for my blog or… Continue reading Hot Pepper Branding