I’ve put up a page to welcome new visitors on the wiki. If you haven’t been there yet, please check it out and tell me if it answers your questions – otherwise I’ll complete it.
Thanks a lot!
Category: Social Media and the Web
Social media, blogging, tweeting, facebooking, web design, and all the stuff that isn’t here yet. Subcategories highlight some areas of particular expertise.
History [en]
Know the Code.
The browser wars are keeping us up nights.
We’re referring, of course, to the battle between Netscape Navigator 2 and Netscape Navigator 3. Seems the two generations of Wall Street’s (and our) favorite browser parse HTML somewhat differently. This is not a problem for people who write standard vanilla web pages. It was a big problem for us.
There are now over 200 pages in this web site. We’ve revised them all, to enrich your life as you speed-click your way through. Who loves ya, baby?
Some things don’t seem to have changed much on the web during these last years, like losing time working around browser incompatilities. Other things seem to have changed a lot, like taste in design.
If past things interest you, you’ll love the Internet Archive. It’s really interesting to see how design and content evolves through time.
Here are some of the sites I dug through:
If a page doesn’t seem to be in the archive, don’t worry and try later. The Internet Archive is having trouble keeping up with all the requests.
- zeldman.com
- la-grange.net
- davezilla.com
- astoundingweb.org [don’t look at the latest archive, it’s a porn site now]
- harrumph.com
- and of course, climbtothestars.org!
Domain [en]
The wiki now has its own domain, with friendly urls: http://spirolattic.net.
Bookmarks [en]
When I first thought about setting up a wiki on this site, I was thinking of the personal use I could make of it. A giant scrapbook, a place to brainstorm, to think about my dissertation topic, or post quick links.
Even before I had got the script running, though, another project had loomed up: make it a place where people visiting this site regularly can interact. Make it a place where we can have interesting discussions, and get a little community-feel.
But I didn’t forget my initial idea, which I found was fully developped in WikiAsPim.
I’ve been wanting to make my bookmarks available publicly for some time now. First of all for myself, so that I can have them handy whether I’m at work (Internet Explorer) or at home (Mozilla) or even at university (Mac and old Netscrape).
But also because every now and again, I spend a few hours doing what I call “web research”, and I often come up with collections of links on a given topic which I think a pity to just leave lying on my computer, once I’ve done with them. I don’t want to go through the trouble of putting them on a full-blown site page either, because they are often not topics I’m ferociously interested in.
So a wiki would be a great place to dump my bookmarks.
Start digging!
SpiroLattic [en]
A new space has opened on Climb to the Stars: SpiroLattic.
Interaction [en]
N’hésitez pas à venir faire un tour sur le wiki SpiroLattic.
Un wiki permet à tout un chacun d’éditer ses pages et d’en rajouter, sans connaitre de html du tout. C’est un peu comme un super-forum.
Wiki [en]
If you want to try out the wiki, please do so.
Have fun!
Moved [en]
Apart from a sluggish dns propagation, everything has gone fine with the server move. Even though you probably won’t notice the difference, welcome aboard!
Weblog as Educational Tool? [en]
Schoolblogs.com acts as a centre to promote the use of weblogs in education. Read about the experiences of other teachers/educators.
[via scobleizer]
Pro Without Tables [en]
If you’ve been thinking that “tableless” sites are very good for personal playgrounds but not viable for professionnal sites, take another look.
Ben has done a really great job with Netspace. Not a single table (unless you’re using Netscape 4.x, in which case you’ll be redirected to a tablefull page), and all the layout is taken care of by css. Bravo!
Standards compliance requires a separation of structure and presentation. It is never total, we know that, but we do our best. CSS takes care of the layout and presentation, and HTML deals with structuring the content (if you can use xhtml strict, it’s even better).
If you’re thinking of selling this approach to your client or your boss, CSS talking points at ALA will probably inspire you. If you want more technical information, my tableless page will provide you with the necessary links.