Blue beanie day - support web standards!

Our lives as users and coders would be much easier if ALL browsers supported web standards.Thus, arose the blue beanie day to show support for web standards.My haiku:New web journeys waitof Blue beanies sing; old mud walks to break internetYou don't even need to own a blue beanie either (tho I have several).

social networking, library services & web usage - a survey

Interesting survey of 330 students at the University of Michigan; the social networking question was just one question out of the survey. The rest of the survey is kind of interesting, too!-----------------------QUESTION: If you could contact a librarian via Facebook or MySpace for help with your research, would you?

thoughts on metadata

I answered a question about metadata on a list, and I thought I'd post my answer in an abbreviated form:Yes, it is still important. ;-D
  • Focus on the most relevant terms for a website. At various times, depending on their algorithms, some search engines have truncated keywords at a certain limit 25 words, even 250 characters. Any other that = seo spam So, choose keywords very very carefully and weight the most important ones at the beginning of the keywords list ;-)
  • Use all of the metadata FIELDS that you can.

CSS generator for tables

Until IE becomes more standards compliant and all browsers began adhering strictly to the w3c coding standards, it will be nearly impossible to create one set of coding that renders beautifully across the various browsers. Many people do use one style sheet, but then include code specifically to work around junky IE.
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