Unofficial FP-Internet Stuff

Monday, October 26, 2015

Move on

If you have an old site that people still address, or a web page that has been moved, see this code and the explanations.

<html> <head> <meta http-equiv="REFRESH" content="3; URL=http://WWW.MiniByteTech.com"> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000">

The operative line is:
<meta http-equiv="REFRESH" content="3; URL=http://WWW.MiniByteTech.com">

The value of content is in seconds.
The new location for this web site is WWW.MiniByteTech.com! You will automatically be redirected in 3 seconds. If your browser doesn't automatically load, click <a href="http://WWW.MiniByteTech.com">HERE</a>.

</body>
</html

PCMag.com:
Routing Your Web Site Visitors

Help2Go.com:
Redirecting a Web page

ISiteBuild.com:
How to Redirect a Web Page Using a 301 Redirect

This tools help you determine if the redirect you have created is Search Engine Friendly:

WebConfs.com:
Redirect Checker

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Saturday, October 17, 2015

Make it an Internet show

A little bit ago we talked about putting a live web page directly on a slide:
Web Page on a Slide.

This hint is about converting your PowerPoint show into a web presentation.

Here's a slide show on the web showing how it's done:

EllenFinkelstein.com:
Publishing a Presentation to the Web

Also:

Indezine.com:
PowerPoint 2002-2003 Web Options

RDPSlides.com has this article:
PowerPoint on the Web

Web and PPT 2007:
University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire

Office.Microsoft.com:
Show slide animations during a Web presentation

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Tuesday, October 13, 2015

Privacy and the Net

What happens on your computer, stays . . .

Here are some protection suggestions:

"Links to numerous pages on the Web where home users can find software and information relevant to Windows PC privacy and security.

It also contains a rudimentary "checklist" of basic steps that home PC users can take to enhance their privacy and security while using the Internet.
Finally, you'll find a set of resources developed by the author of this site to help you protect your privacy and security on the Internet, including information about Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) and the Gnu Privacy Guard (GPG)."

Protecting Your Privacy & Security

by Eric Howes
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Also:
Microsoft:
Security at home

Also see:
Security and the Net

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Monday, October 12, 2015

Pictures Toolbar

Control your graphics

You may have used this toolbar in other applications; you may want to get to know it even better.

These tutorials looks at the toolbar which includes several easy-to-use features to tweak, enhance and position graphic images after they are inserted into a Expression Web/FrontPage web page.

Pictures Toolbar

Insert an Image from File also insert images from the Clip Organizer or obtain free clipart online at Microsoft's Design Gallery Live
Text can be placed directly on a GIF image.
Automatically create a thumbnail of a larger image.
Position Absolutely
Bring Forward/Send Backward
Rotate Left/Right
Flip Horizontal/Vertical
More/Less Contrast
More/Less Brightness
Crop
Line Style
Format Picture
Set Transparent Image
Color
Bevel
Resample

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Tuesday, September 29, 2015

Look at Yourself

Information on line

Here is a site that will test your connection speed, tell you your latitude and longitude, IP address and more.

They provide a one stop location to validate email addresses, locate the host server for a domain, plus trace, ping etc.

You can also find out what information your browser is broadcasting to the world.

Internetfrog.com

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Wednesday, September 02, 2015

E-Mail Delivery Design

Don't look like spam

A discussion:

"Transactional email can be a website's customer service ambassador, but messages must first survive a ruthless selection process in the user's in-box. Differentiating your message from spam is thus the first duty of email design.

Email is one of a website's most powerful tools for strengthening customer service and increasing users' confidence and trust in the site. Confirmation messages and other automated transactional email can complete the user experience: they reach out to customers in ways that are otherwise impossible for websites, which must sit still and wait for users to approach."

From Dr. Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox

Automated Email From Websites to Customers

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Tuesday, September 01, 2015

Photoshop Blog Templates

Design suggestions

I haven't done any remodeling of this blog in awhile, but when I do I'll be looking at Jennifer Apple's site:

www.PhotoshopSupport.com

"Once you choose a blogging service and set up an account, you will be provided with a standard blog template. But this template will suffer from a cookie-cutter design, and if you don't personalize it your blog may become lost. To be noticed your blog needs to make a splash - as there are more than ten million blogs out there. So what we'll concentrate on here is working with some design elements that can help you add more zing to your blog."

Tips For Blog Templates & Blog Design In Photoshop

Here are a few of the link categories:

Inspiring blog designs
Free fonts for blogs
Free photos for blogs
Free blog templates
Free blog backgrounds, tiles & patterns
Free color schemes for blogs

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Saturday, August 22, 2015

HTML Character References

Display codes

Alan Wood's Web Site provides a lot of reference material. From over 1400 ingredients of pesticides¹ to Unicode and HTML resources.

In HTML, fonts and symbols can be generated from the numeric character reference or from the character entity reference.

– or en dash: (– or –)
— or em dash: (— or —)
‡ or double dagger: (‡ or &Dagger;)
™ or trade mark: (™ or ™)
∑ or n-ary summation, sum of: (∑ or ∑)
√ or square root, radical sign: (√ or √)

HTML 4.0 Character Entity References

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Wednesday, August 19, 2015

Security and the Net

Is any place safe?

This from PracticallyNetworked.com:

"One of the biggest misconceptions is that hackers will target only large companies. The truth is computers get attacked for a variety of reasons. Some of these include the following:

Snooping: Reading private mail and other personal files.

Destroying or corrupting computer data: Making files unusable, or making a whole computer unusable.

Stealing computer data: Taking credit card numbers, e-mail addresses, company information and so on.

Stopping computers from functioning properly: Blocking incoming traffic so that intended users cannot get access, etc.

Misusing computer resources: Sending spam without you knowing it, etc.

Pranks: practical jokes, breaking in just because it's a challenge.

The bottom line, don't think your network is safe just because you're not that important or well-known. Assuming that you aren't personally targeted, moderately secure networks usually cause hackers to attack elsewhere. Yet attacks can come from many different sources and your computer should be equipped to deal with each of these types of attacks."

CAN YOU EVER BE TRULY SAFE AND SECURE ONLINE

Check out your computers vulnerability at GRC.com.
(Gibson Research Corporation)

Also see:
StaySafeOnline.info

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Tuesday, August 18, 2015

Alternate Bullets

High caliber

There are other images that can be used as bullets in Word, PowerPoint, and HTML.
Allan Wyatt's Word Tips:

Using Words as Bullets

StackOverflow.com:

Make Custom Bullets
Using CSS

Shauna Kelly:

How to control bullets in Microsoft Word
Bullets, Numbers, and Lists

Troubleshooting Bullets and numbering

Also see:
Beyond Bullets.com

Beyond Bullet Points, the book

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Monday, August 10, 2015

Design Patterns

More suggestions

Martijn van Welie of Welie.com, has a collection of designs for web sites, GUI designs, and MobileUI designs.

Patterns

Some topics covered are:

Site Types
Ecommerce
Navigation
Basic Page Types
Managing Collections
Page Elements
and
Visual Design

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Friday, July 31, 2015

Script Bling

Page spice

Would you like to add an animation to your web page but don't know how to script?
SimplyTheBest.Net has a nice selection that can be easily pasted into your code.

Here are a few examples:

Animated page title script: A script that lets you animate the page title in the browser.
Animated message page: This script displays text messages on an introduction page before redirecting it to another page.
Bouncing image script: A script with which you can make an image bounce across the page.
Circling images: A script that will draw a circle consisting of a set of images around your mouse pointer.
Dynamic animation: This script can be used to fly text or images onto the browser screen from different directions.
Falling images: With this script you can make images fall down and then disappear from your page.
Floating images: A script that will float one or several images around the screen.
Search light: This DHTML script creates a search light effect on images using a start/stop link.
Transition effects: A script you can use to create transitions between images.
Text animation: A script to animate and fade in and/or fade out with text.

See:
Daniel Eden: Animate CSS

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Wednesday, July 15, 2015

Free Photos

and other graphics

Robin Good has compiled a list of places that provide royalty free images.

" Finding quality images and photos for complementing an important article, essay or news report is already quite a challenge for many. Imagine when the goal is not just too find good images, but find some that you could openly and freely use without needing to pay royalties or one-time publishing rights to someone."

Free Photographs and Other Visuals

A dozen sources are listed including:
PD Photo.org

"PDPhoto.org is a repository for free public domain photos. Unless something is clearly marked as being copyrighted, you can assume it is free to use. But if you intend to use an image you find here for commercial use, please be aware that standards for such use are higher. Specifically, you should assume no model release was obtained. And pictures featuring products or property should be used with care. The photos are here to be used, but I don't want you to get either of us in trouble over it."

Copyright Information

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Friday, June 26, 2015

Jargon Translation

Tech Stuff for the Web

"There are many Web technologies, from simple to complex, and explaining each in detail is beyond the scope of this article. However, to help you get started with developing your own Web sites, beyond simple WYSIWYG designing of Web pages in FrontPage, this article provides brief definitions of the major Web technologies along with links to sites where you can find more information, tutorials, and reference documentation."

Introduction to Web Technologies

If you have seen or heard these terms, and want a definition with links to more background material, this maybe the place to start.

Access
ActiveX Controls
Apache
ASP
ASP.NET
C#
CGI
CSS
Databases
Ecma International
FrontPage Server Extensions
HTML
IETF
Internet Information Services
Java
JavaScript (JScript/ECMAScript)
MySQL
Oracle Database
Perl
PHP
SharePoint Team Services
SQL Server
VBScript
Visual Basic .NET
Windows SharePoint Services
World Wide Web Consortium
XML
XSLT

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Thursday, June 25, 2015

MS Groups

Web based Newsreader

We can't forget that, even with blogs and google, there are still news groups out there helping to solve common problems.

Microsoft has a site that organizes a number of groups and makes access easy on the web.

"The Web-based Newsreader allows you to participate in discussion groups directly in your Web browser; you don't need to install or configure anything. You can use the Web-based Newsreader to read, post, search for, and reply to messages in discussion groups from the part of Usenet that concerns Microsoft products and technologies."

Microsoft Discussion Groups

Help for the Web-based Newsreader

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Tuesday, June 16, 2015

Copy Writing for the Web

Writing resources

..."the personal website of Matt Pfeffer. It is an experiment more than anything. An attempt to learn a thing or two, get some exercise, maybe have a laugh now and then.
Everything here is either trivial, or wrong."

ProvenanceUnknown.com

Principles of copywriting for the web

"The guidelines this document describes will tell you how to improve the user experience on your site. They apply to web copy generally - both marketing copy and navigational (or instructional or "guide") copy - and their value is indirect but significant: Observing them will improve your site's ability to do its job well. "

Web copy style

"This style guide seeks to serve as a resource for anyone writing or editing web copy, and to document some of the conventions that distinguish good writing, as published on the web, from writing published in other media."

Got Editing?

"I am glad to provide free editing help to nonprofit organizations and independent web publishers. The offer is generally for one-time edits of a web site, or of any reasonable amount of web content."

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Thursday, June 11, 2015

Favicons

Art in 16x16 pixels

When you link to certain sites, you might notice that a graphic is sometimes displayed

instead of the IE logo. There are numerous sites that help to create and place these logos.

To add a Favicon, upload the file, favicon.ico to the root web directory of your hosted website Make sure the file is named "favicon.ico." When someone bookmarks your site with a browser that supports favicons, your mini-pic will appear.
You could also link it using this code:

<link href="favicon.ico" rel="SHORTCUT ICON">

MSDN.Microsoft.com:
How to Add a Shortcut Icon to a Web Page

Clickfire.com:
Place a Favicon on your Website

Michael P. Pierce:
MpP Favicon Gallery

Chami.com:
FavIcon from Pics

"FavIcon from Pics is an online tool that can generate a favicon from a picture, logo or other graphic of any size/resolution. It was also the first online tool that simplified the creation of favicons using a regular image without requiring manual edits."

Makiko Itoh:
Favicon

" Here's a roundup of some of the favicons that caught my eye. Please click through to the sites themselves, to see how the favicon works (or not) with the site. Maybe it will get you thinking about your own site's favicon."

Daniel Burka:
Favourite Favicons

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Friday, June 05, 2015

The Well

A salute to our predecessors

Remember the acronym BBS? Remember the Whole Earth movement?

Before "Chat rooms" and IM, for 20 years there has been an online community of readers and contributors.

While it started in the Bay area, it is international in scope.

On the net since April 1, 1985, happy birthday to the Well.

From Well.com:

"There is nothing quite like The WELL, and the secret has a lot to do with its evolution. Stewart Brand and Larry Brilliant founded the Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link in 1985, starting with a dialog between the fiercely independent writers and readers of the Whole Earth Review.

This set the tone for the open but remarkably literate and uninhibited intellectual gathering that continues today. Over the years, WELL members have made fast friends, created enduring traditions, gathered casually face-to-face in cities 'round the world, and provided support to strangers.

They have founded organizations like the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Craig's List, and documented what was emerging in books like Howard Rheingold's The Virtual Community, John Seabrook's Deeper, and Katie Hafner's The WELL. They have gone into business together, fallen in and out of love, cultivated feuds, taken kickass vacations together and enriched lives.

Salon.com bought The WELL in 1999, and upgraded its servers to greet the century. These days WELL members enjoy access to Salon's remarkable independent journalist and the benefits of Salon Premium."

About the Well

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Tuesday, June 02, 2015

HTML/CSS Resource

"The Ultimate"

You may be put off by the home page for this site, but drill deeper.
Blooberry.com
Brian Wilson

The Author has compiled a very well arranged collection of references.

You might want to go directly to:

Index D O T HTML
T h e A d v a n c e d H T M L R e f e r e n c e

Or

Index D O T CSS
T h e A d v a n c e d C S S R e f e r e n c e

Brian is looking for volunteers to expand the authoring base for this site. If you would like to participate, here is a link to his email address:
Blooberry Email

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Sunday, May 31, 2015

Googlr Tutor

User advice

Mark Fleming has started a new omnibus site/blog dealing with the vagarities and varieties that make up Google.

"In my discussions with other Google users, I am always amazed at how few of Google's tools they have heard of. For the most part, people are only familiar with the main search areas such as the web, news and images. And even in these areas, their knowledge of all the options that would allow them to better harness the power of Google is limited.

When I've told others of the vast features and formidable power of Google tools, they are quite frankly astonished. Compounding the problem of this unfamiliarity is the fact the Google does not make much of an effort to even tell us what's new and what's in public beta. You've usually got to hear about it somewhere else or just stumble upon it."

GoogleTutor.com
Google Tutor and Advisor

One entry, for instance, points to the Google Cheat Sheet

Also see:
Google Guide

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Monday, October 26, 2015

Move on

Saturday, October 17, 2015

Make it an Internet show

Tuesday, October 13, 2015

What happens on your computer, stays . . .

Monday, October 12, 2015

Control your graphics

Tuesday, September 29, 2015

Information on line

Wednesday, September 02, 2015

Don't look like spam

Tuesday, September 01, 2015

Design suggestions

Saturday, August 22, 2015

Display codes

Wednesday, August 19, 2015

Is any place safe?

Tuesday, August 18, 2015

High caliber

Monday, August 10, 2015

Friday, July 31, 2015

Page spice

Wednesday, July 15, 2015

and other graphics

Friday, June 26, 2015

Tech Stuff for the Web

Thursday, June 25, 2015

Web based Newsreader

Tuesday, June 16, 2015

Writing resources

Thursday, June 11, 2015

Art in 16x16 pixels

Friday, June 05, 2015

A salute to our predecessors

Tuesday, June 02, 2015

"The Ultimate"

Sunday, May 31, 2015

User advice