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Web Development
sIFR: The Healthy Alternative to Browser Text
Mike Davidson introduces sIFR – Finally, I may be able to use the method!
The Daily Flight
The Daily Flight – Great magazine style layout on the Web. Make sure to click through to a story.
FreeFoto.com – Free Pictures
FreeFoto.com – A large collection of free photographs for private non-commercial use
The Hivelogic Narrative
Dan Benjamin has redesigned his personal site, The Hivelogic Narrative. As always, it is a great design, this time he moves away from his black gray and white into some muted colors, which are nicely done. But, of much more interest to me, is his use of a three column design that differs from most. Instead of a central content column, flanked by two smaller columns, he has placed the two small columns to the left of the content area. It works better than I would have expected had I tried to pull it off.
He has also managed to place Google Ads on his site so they are visible without being distracting. I look forward to his posting that details all of the changes in depth, as I am sure there are many under the hood that aren’t immediately visible.
Capitalization of Internet and Web
Wired has announced that they will no longer capitalize Internet, Web and Net in their stories, stating “there is no earthly reason to capitalize any of these words. Actually, there never was.”
Capitalization, or rather, the lack thereof, of these specific words has been a pet peeve of mine for a while. Frankly, I think Wired has it wrong. Their reasons appear to be soundly justified, as they label the Internet as “another medium for delivering and receiving information”. But they seem to have forgotten one key point, the Internet is a proper noun. Unlike television, radio, newspaper…or hell even intranet (A private network, typically secured for a specific company or group) there are not multiple copies or versions of it. The Internet has been hard to categorize from the get go, it is both a medium for information dissemination and a location or destination. The ‘Web’, is no different. Their choice to capitalize ‘World Wide Web’ illustrates the point all the more.
While I thoroughly respect Wired, they have made a poor journalistic decision, based on a misunderstanding of the words and their definitions.
Though it is good to see that they still follow proper conventions by hyphenating the shortened form of electronic mail: e-mail.