Experiments with PDFs

• October 15, 2005
• James Skemp

I like PDFs. While a number of individuals will attack PDFs with blanket statements, PDFs are a great way to allow users to print documents from the Internet as intended.  So, instead of printing off a Web page and losing 10 to 20 characters from the right-side, you can print off a document formatted specifically for printers. Of course, if you use them as the sole content delivery method, you may run into issues.

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Dreamweaver and iPower/iPowerWeb

• October 13, 2005
• James Skemp

I've been quite ill since Sunday, hence no posts. However, I'm feeling better today, and not just because I got my copy of Studio 8.

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A preview of the new StrivingLife.net network

• October 9, 2005
• James Skemp

Instead of writing on a specific topic, which is what I wanted to do today, I've got a preview of the new network layout.

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AdSense and smaller sites

• October 8, 2005
• James Skemp

Yesterday I talked about site/network popularity. My closing thoughts were that I believe my site is growing and think it is 'popular' for some fields, but that it could probably be more so. With that said, how can a smaller site attract advertisers who will, hopefully, pay (some of) the costs of creating and updating a site? In the old days, advertising on a small site meant banner networks, or exchanges.

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Topics for the coming days

• October 8, 2005
• James Skemp

Here's a list of the topics that I've written down as things I'd like to discuss. If there any not listed here that should be, let me know. Similarly, if there are any that are on the list that should be done before the others, let me know. AdSense - posting tonight Error checking (404) benefits Writing a PHP error / redirect script Benefits of a GMail account for stats/site administration Just how many browsers should be tested?

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StrivingLife.net network popularity

• October 7, 2005
• James Skemp

As I said this morning, site popularity can be determined by how many people are viewing the content, and how many people are using the content.

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Network popularity

• October 7, 2005
• James Skemp

On Wednesday I said I was going to talk about how popular the various sites are. I didn't get to that on Thursday, so I'll be discussing that today.

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Creating the network - the host

• October 6, 2005
• James Skemp

While in my last post I said host-singular, really there's two major 'hosts', in a manner of speaking. Usually, this will be the case. JamesRSkemp.net, for example, was one host. So, let's look at JamesRSkemp.net when it was one host.

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Creating the network - locally

• October 6, 2005
• James Skemp

Today I'll be talking about how the StrivingLife.net network runs. In my opinion, you can break the network down into two large parts; my computer and my host's computer.  There are certainly other things that come into play, such as the Internet in general, and the support of Google and the sites that it brings up in the various searches I (need to) do, but they are (almost) always applicable when you talk about the Internet.

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About the StrivingLife.net network

• October 5, 2005
• James Skemp

First, let's talk about the StrivingLife.net network.

To do that, we'll have to talk about how I got to this point.

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