Here are sixteen of the most amazing quotes that will not only bring out the best in you, they'll also push you forward in your life-journey. ‘Our minds can shape the way a thing will be because we act according to our expectations.’~ Federico Fellini ‘Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building... Continue Reading →
How a Lot of Words Are Going to Change Life
In the process of leaving a comment at the flyingsolo.com website inside a post that tells how "how a few words can change a life", I found myself writing a thousand word essay! So I decided to do a bit more research and make it a post, giving my own personal incite and experience to... Continue Reading →
9 Tips to Better Photography for Printing on Fabric
Turns out it isn't all that difficult to convert your photographs into stencils. Most children do this during their formative years. Now every parent can relive those fridge-covered days! But the first thing you have to ask yourself: Which photograph do I use? None of my current photo's seem worthy of putting on my chest!... Continue Reading →
Reading Your Way into Your Future
I’m not going to steal Marc Hedlund’s thunder by simply copying and pasting his text to here: This post is the greatest piece of advice any entrepreneur will read, and every web-geek should already have read. This is basically a summary of a lot of great proverbs collected over his working lifetime, then gave his... Continue Reading →
Changing the WWW, One Bad Link at a Time
Some things on the internet are extremely difficult to believe if they are real or not. OK, ok, 99% of the internet is unbelievable. Even the stuff that says "Yeah, this is real" invariably isn’t. This is yet another of those occasions - but I am prepared to eat humble pie if this proves to... Continue Reading →
Use Convenient Naming in HTML
Jonathan Snook has written a great post that I have commented as a "succint statement of validation" regarding the over/use of DIV’s in a web site. Like many coders who layout their plans on paper first, I carefully decide what the DIVs will be entitled for the remainder of their lifetime online. Some have standard... Continue Reading →
Coding to Validate to Code
According to the new CSS-validator over at w3.org, my CSS on my site validate. Some might say "So what?" What they and you don’t realise: I do not use any special software to write my HTML (eg: Dreamweaver, Frontpage, etc) nor my CSS (eg: Topstyle, Stylemaster, MacRabbit, etc). I taught myself from reading and learning... Continue Reading →
I Was Offered Webmaster for Apex SA/NT!
Here is my latest web site design. [Update: Deleted in 20010] The client is the State Board of Apex SA/NT : I am the webmaster1. I was asked if I'd like to take on the challenge of bringing their website into the current century. I reckon it took about three minutes to decide how I... Continue Reading →
Giving Praise Where It’s Deserved!
Three brilliant quotes from the mouth(/fingers?) of Christian Montoya: "I can put this technique to good use because I am a great CSS developer and I am creative. These are not popular skills but they are useful. If you put me on a team with a decent graphic designer we would do pretty well." and... Continue Reading →
How to Become a Great Blogger
Having a blog for yourself, your business, your product, or just for fun is vitally important in today’s world. In early 2004 Australians were fully flung into the deep end of blogging. A few computer magazines advertising blogger.com - and within months online-written-content exploded 25-fold across Australia. The WWW began hearing new voices from down... Continue Reading →
Validate Your Code in 3 Easy Steps
The mark-up validator has been updated. This is good news for all of us in the ongoing pursuit to ensure our code validates. The new Mark-Up validator allowed me to validate an URL or a file-upload, plus has a ‘direct-input’ field where text can be copied-and-pasted too. These are certainly going to beneficial. Yes, the... Continue Reading →
Education Equals Money, Cash and Two Billion Dollars
You think computing is an industry where a good education helps - right? Here are two examples that show how much education you need to become a billionaire: 1. Sergey Brin received his BS degree in mathematics and computer science from the University of Maryland at College Park in 1993. Currently, he is a Ph.D.... Continue Reading →
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