The wiki now has its own domain, with friendly urls: http://spirolattic.net.
Category: Technical
Technical issues around social media. For the geekier-minded.
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!
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.
Meta Tags [en]
Here is a good page on using meta tags like “description” and “keywords”, and how they influence (or rather: don’t influence) search engine rankings.
Remember, you are using these tags to help make up for the lack of text on your pages, not as a way to successfully anticipate every keyword variation a person might enter into a search engine. The only hope you have of ever doing that is to have good, descriptive pages with good titles and text that is not buried on the bottom of the page by JavaScript, frames tags or tables. The meta tags are a tool to get around these aforementioned problems.
Besoin de relecteurs! [en]
Un grand merci à J.J. Solari et à Stéphane pour leur traductions! Maintenant, avant de pouvoir les publier sur pompage.net, j’ai un grand besoin de relecteurs. Annoncez-vous, il y en aura pour tout le monde!
HTML simple? [en]
Un collègue de travail me faisait très justement remarquer que ce qui rendait mon approche du HTML simple, c’était qu’une feuille de styles CSS commune et des “includes” PHP étaient déjà en place. Justement!
Editeurs: la suite. Ce qui rend simple l’apprentissage du HTML…