Spirit of America: Why not choose open source?
Spirit of America is paying $32,000 for an Arabic blogging tool. Why not open source? Drupal supports Arabic script out of the box.
By Boris MannBlog · 2004
61 posts published in 2004.
CSS: Creating Style with Standards, Part IV
Print designers often find it difficult to make the transition to Web for one primary reason: Typography on the Web sucks. Or does it?
By Mark YuasaCSS/XHTML Presentations
Microsoft's PowerPoint isn't a tool that will help you stand out anymore. Some key players in CSS are building presentations with web standards instead.
By Mark YuasaWhat Would You Do With a Second Life?
Robert on Second Life in 2004: a virtual club with 20 staff, land, shops, and a plan to open Raincity's studio inside Linden Lab's 3D world.
By Robert ScalesBook Review: Managing Media, Book 2 - Technical Issues
A review of Managing Multimedia, Book 2: Technical Issues, a broad overview of new media technology for project managers.
By Robert ScalesWhat to Know Before Hiring a SEO Firm
Red flags to watch for before you hire an SEO: unsolicited email, guaranteed #1 rankings, secrecy and no written contract. When in doubt, walk away.
By Robert ScalesBook Review: Managing Multimedia, Book 1: People And Processes
Is managing multimedia projects the same as traditional project management? A review of Managing Multimedia, Book 1.
By Robert ScalesForecasting: Web Design in 2005
Forty Media has put together a short-and-sassy list of web design predictions entitled: Web Design in 2005.
By Mark YuasaThe Standard in Your Native Language?
In 2004, automated translation let The Standard reach readers in French, Spanish, German, Chinese and Japanese. A Montreal-born author weighs in.
By Robert ScalesLesson: CSS, Creating Style with Standards, Part III
What if I told you that today, your site's source code could be reduced by two-thirds, saving you an equal amount of your bandwidth every month?
By Mark YuasaBooks-2-come: Buzz Marketing with Blogs For Dummies
For years, bloggers have been boasting about the advantages of blogs; a preview of Susannah Gardner's upcoming book on blogging for business.
By Robert ScalesSoftware Agents in Sci-Fi
Science fiction can be a valuable medium for visualizing future trends in technology, such as software agents that act on behalf of a user.
By Mark YuasaSEO Resources
Some of my favourite SEO links: the sites I read, software I use and other links I am scouting these days.
By Robert ScalesLazy Person's Guide to being a NewsMaster Part 3: How to be a NewsMaster
The process and how-to guide for being a NewsMaster: pick keywords, subscribe to them via RSS, and blog to join the conversation.
By Roland TanglaoHow Search Engines Rank Sites
Keyword prominence, placement and inbound links, plus what a month of standards-based development and blogging did for Raincity's own traffic.
By Robert ScalesLesson: CSS, Creating Style with Standards, Part II
One of the key philosophies of standards-based web design is the separation of Behaviour from Presentation and Structure.
By Mark YuasaSpill your beans: CBC Radio3
An informational interview with two executive producers of CBC Radio3, the first in a series on new media industry networking.
By Robert ScalesBook Review: Internet Marketing
A review of Prentice Hall's Internet Marketing, a strategy guide for bridging traditional and Internet marketing.
By Robert ScalesReview: Basecamp Project Management System
How a two-partner studio juggling six clients found its answer to lost emails and slipping meetings: 37signals' Basecamp.
By Robert ScalesBook Review: Web Standards Solutions
I first came across Simplebits while searching for a layout solution to a job that meant real money to me. I came, I read, I learned.
By Mark YuasaDinner with the Blogfather
New and experienced bloggers alike will agree, Dave Winer is the blogfather.
By Robert ScalesTech Toys: Smart Watches
An array of so-called smart watches are hitting the shelves for the holiday season this year. This tech user is a little dubious.
By Mark YuasaBuilding 21st Century Websites with Weblogs and RSS with Darren Barefoot
Notes, reflections and redux from co-presenting Building 21st Century Websites with Weblogs and RSS with Darren Barefoot at New Media BC.
By Roland TanglaoLesson: CSS, Creating Style with Standards, Part I
What if I told you that today, your site's source code could be reduced by two-thirds, saving you an equal amount of your bandwidth every month?
By Mark YuasaSeminar: Building 21st Century Websites with Weblogs and RSS
The RCS team recently attended the NMBC seminar Building 21st Century Websites with Weblogs and RSS.
By Raincity StudiosBetter Presentations
I stumbled across this useful article hot off of attending a recent New Media BC seminar.
By Mark YuasaEditorial: In Defense of Streamline
Adobe Streamline is a venerable application that does one job, and one job only: converting raster images to vector art.
By Mark YuasaBook Review: The Art & Science of Web Design
The book is admittedly dated (2000), but even in the aftermath of the "dot-bomb," Art & Science still has much to offer.
By Mark YuasaSoftware Review: Style Master [demo]
My friend Erik and I were talking about CSS, wondering if there would ever be a truly-WYSIWYG cascading style sheet editor.
By Mark YuasaThe 'Fox Has Landed
Yay! Firefox 1.0 is here!
By Mark YuasaBook Review: Designing With Web Standards
Just what are Web Standards? This book answers that question with aplomb.
By Mark YuasaBook Review: Search Engine Visibility
One of the most important things to remember before you start submitting your newly-built website is how search engines' spiders/robots work.
By Robert ScalesAudio of Dries' Presentation to the Vancouver PHP Association
Late last month, Dries Buytaert presented Drupal to the Vancouver PHP Association, and I recorded it on my Powerbook.
By Richard ErikssonLast Week's Whirlwind
So, as Roland and James have mentioned, last week was hectic but also energizing and fun.
By Boris MannThoughts from the Drupal Dinner
A few thoughts following a week in Vancouver, meeting Dries and the CivicSpace gang.
By James WalkerRandom Dries, Drupal and CivicSpace thoughts from last week
Stream-of-consciousness notes from the Vancouver Drupal and CivicSpace dinner with Dries Buytaert in October 2004.
By Roland TanglaoD is for Dries
Dries, the "Linus Torvalds" of Drupal, was in town for OOPSLA and we took advantage of this to organize some Drupal related events.
By Roland TanglaoPresentations made easy
What if your next presentation didn't require PowerPoint, and instead simply make use of your Bryght site?
By James WalkerRadio CFML Interview
I'm being interviewed on CFML's "For the Record" about how blogging is changing the landscape of political coverage.
By Boris MannUsing a Bryght Site to Achieve #1 Rankings in Google
Bryght sites are even more effective than blogs for achieving a high Google rank. Why? Two reasons.
By Roland TanglaoOpen Source Development and Documentation Project
A technical writing class will create an end user documentation manual for Drupal 4.5 — and the timing is good for our Drupal User Guide.
By Boris MannBryght is a HOSTED open source stack using LAMP + D
Like SpikeSource, Bryght offers a stack of open source software; the Bryght stack is LAMP + Drupal, or what I call LAMP+D.
By Roland TanglaoAdaptive Path and Jeffrey Veen - help us improve Drupal's usability and Dries will donate time and we'll donate a Bryght site
Jeffrey Veen complained about the usability of open source CMSs like Drupal; Dries offered 4 hours of implementation for every hour of review.
By Roland TanglaoCommunities need a site mom to blog the best of and summarize stuff from the forum/discussion board/chat board
Not everybody has time for a forum; the site mom should run a blog that points to the best of the forums and summarizes what's happening.
By Roland TanglaoGroups in Drupal
Drupal supports Clay Shirky's two pieces of social software: groups and conversations/shared awareness. But how are groups supported?
By Boris MannTomorrow's Communities
Whether you're an open source project, a business, or an individual, your community is key.
By Boris MannDrupal theme garden - powered by the new template system.
The Drupal Theme Garden, built in the mould of the CSS Zen Garden, lets you test out the available Drupal themes.
By Adrian RossouwThe Impact on Them Is About Zero
People who know their business want to write about it without worrying about technical details: with HTMLArea in Drupal, the impact on them is about zero.
By Richard ErikssonPR really is dead
No really, PR is dead! I have got a lack of flack for saying this, but I stand by it.
By Roland TanglaoYou can't outsource blogging
A blog consultant can teach you how to blog, but in the end the biggest thing about blogging is that it reflects the voice of your organization.
By Roland TanglaoDrupal comes second in Open Source CMS Report
Dmitirios Michelinakis reviewed 7 open source CMSs, and Drupal came in second after Typo3.
By Boris MannDrupal Does This: Sticky Posts
Elise finds five ways to keep a post sticky at the top in Movable Type. Drupal does this easily and quickly with two check boxes.
By Richard ErikssonHarold and Cameron's Drupal Review for Rick Bruner: Some commentary
Harold and Cameron's review of Drupal for Rick Bruner's blog is comprehensive, but I think they missed a couple of things.
By Boris MannJust say NO to internal email - use tools like Bryght sites that generate RSS!
Who needs email free Fridays when your organization doesn't use internal email every day?
By Roland TanglaoNot switching to Drupal
Scott Laird is sticking with Movable Type, but praises Drupal's PostgreSQL support. And I admit it: I hate trackback.
By Boris MannSocial reading
David Weinberger asks about "social reading". How does one build a social reading site with Drupal?
By Boris MannGeo-something
Today we aggregate RSS feeds based on our interests. Bring geographic information into it, and we might be notified of happenings in our area.
By Boris MannDrupal Bookmarklet
I was just idly wondering about bookmarklet functionality for Drupal.
By Boris MannFOAF and Profile Syndication
Bryght is working on distributed authentication and profiles for Drupal, starting with a revamped FOAF module.
By James WalkerHypothesise a new competitor product
Reading Adam Kalsey's post on the future of Movable Type and Six Apart, a comment describes a competitor that sounds a lot like Bryght.
By Boris MannDynamic vs. Static
Feeds make blogs look like news sites to crawlers: dynamic, updated, relevant content keeps people coming back.
By Boris MannYour business deserves to be found.
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