Archive for November, 2004

Why use web standards?

I wanted to write these articles for a long time now. But with the new job and everything, I don’t even have time to get my new design online. So I figured I’d start with the articles anyway and do the redesign when I have the time. The Wordpress template is a good example of using these standards so it will serve as an example and will do the job to present my story.

Before I start with a technical discussion about web standards, let’s see what you and I want from a website and how these standards can help us.

If I wanted to make a website, what do I want from it in general terms?

  • (part 1) I want everybody to be able to see what I have to say or sell.
  • (part 2) I want a great looking presence with lots of features and functions
  • (part 3) I want it to be lean and mean when it comes to downloading and rendering on the screen.
  • (part 4) I want search engines to rate my website as high as possible.
  • (part 5) I don’t want to spend too much of my time maintaining my website, fixing bugs, changing the layout or adding content.

We all want that, right? And can we do it without working our fingertips to the bone and preferably without some form of carpal syndrome? Maybe not, but let’s try.

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404: Cannot find reality files

Have a look at the 404 page from mamselle.ca.
Time to take a break.

strategies for pixelFest

PixelFest is a project with one rule: one pixel at a time. Everybody can start putting pixels on a canvas and everyone can ruin or enhance your ideas. It’s a group drawing.
Think you can finish your idea before someone thinks he needs your space?
It’s a bit like grafitti in cities. They don’t have enough walls to fill, so someone needs to be overwritten. If you get far enough with your picture, people will hesitate a litle bit more to overwrite it. So you have to make sure that your idea comes across before you start filling in the details.
Give the other people a reason not to screw with your pixels.

True-Americans

Look at true-americans.org and this site. America speaks up, before and after the elections.
Two sites asking people in America and around the world to express their feelings about the elections, by writting it down on a piece of paper and taking a picture.
I don’t understand a word of the picture below, but maybe someone reading this entry can translate it for me:
Sorry Everybody

And then this response from Germany
apologies accepted ... we love you people, anyway  theres a nex round, see you in 2008

that’s me: exe

A bit strange but I must admit it comes close.
Hey what can I say, I’m a nice guy.

You are .exe When given proper orders, you execute them flawlessly.  You're familiar to most, and useful to all.Which File Extension are You?

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My name is Len Dierickx and this is my personal blog. I studied Musicology at the UG, long time ago but got more and more into webdevelopment. I started this blog because the EuroIA summit in Brussels (Belgium, Oct 2005), was such an inspiration. And I was thinking about a blog on IA a while now, so that was the extra kick I needed to get it actually done.

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