Keep URLs simple, but not verbose

Among the excellent advice in Jakob Nielsen's latest essay, Top Ten Web-Design Mistakes of 2002 is the terse ...

Hiding your email address from harvesters

A huge problem for anyone operating a website is the harvesting of email addresses by spammers. I get at least sixty ...

Web-based applications with WiFi

The convenience of wireless broadband wipes out one of the constraints that have been holding back web-based ...

Decoupling DNS on a shared server

The principle of the Domain Name System (DNS) is that it decouples the name of a web domain (eg looselycoupled.com) ...

Publishing options

If you create a web page using XHTML and mark it up so that it's divided into semantically meaningful components, then ...

Working through abstractions

One of my recent projects has been the creation of an online directory of analyst research, which we'll be publishing ...

Weblog outage

A new Blogger glitch has surfaced that may prove to be the last straw for my continued use of Blogger as a weblog ...

How to remember all your passwords

Until more secure sign-on mechanisms evolve, your ID and password is the only line of defense you have against other ...

Blogger hacked

Pyra Labs took all Blogger servers offline today after a hacker broke into the system and disrupted accounts. Pyra's ...

Inviting new users to post using BlogThis!

I set up a private weblog in one of my password-protected directories last week and invited several new members of the ...

Creating password-protected directories

There are various ways to create password-protected directories on a hosted server, some of them more secure than ...

Inspired by Wired

Wired News launched a new site design today that is a revelation in its use of XHTML and CSS. Although Loosely Coupled ...

Namespace impasse

I mentioned in an update to my previous posting that there are grave problems with declaring namespaces in RSS 2.0. The ...