Blogging’s the thing these days, and you don’t need to be a computer geek to make it happen. I show you how to use a blog to keep in touch while you’re away from your Mac.
This month we explore a free Google service called Google Docs and Spreadsheets. It lets you create, edit and work with documents and spreadsheets online. You can store them online, download them and even share them. This collaborative storage, editing and publishing tool has great potential for community groups. [First published November 2006.] Get started […]
First words matter most. Whether you’re writing your own web page, or sending in a notice, the first words are the most important. [First published November 2006.] Web page hot spots When people visit web pages they quickly skim to find things of interest. If they are experienced users of the web they will probably […]
Pagespinner 4.6.3 is quirky and erratic. While Pagespinner allows its users to create the kind of basic, accessible web page this series has been aiming for, it doesn’t make it very easy, and it sometimes work against the user. My quest continues. [First published November 2006.] I am on a quest to find freeware or […]
WordPress.com has just increased its storage space allowance to a massive 3 Gigabytes — that should be more than enough for anyone with text and images, and also enough for audio and movies, or other kinds of large files. …everyone’s free upload space has been increased 60x from 50mb to 3,000mb. … Our hope is […]
Eric Meyer of CSS fame has created an extraordinarily cool browser timeline, but be sure to read his full blog post about it first. Here’s a brief extract: here’s a browser timeline built out of a table. I’ll say it now: this does not work in IE6 and IE7. I’m not sure it’s possible to […]
I didn’t realise that a lot of the chocolate in the US, and so presumably also in New Zealand, is produced, at least in part, by child slave labour. That adds quite a lot of ‘bitter’ to the sweetness, eh! greenLAgirl has a post you should read on the topic. An excerpt: …chocolates … [are] […]
