URL’s frequently employ potentially conflicting characters such as question marks, ampersands, and pound signs. Fortunately, it is possible to encode such characters via their escaped hexadecimal ASCII representations. For example, we would write "?" as "%3F". Here are a few more URL character codes (case-insensitive): • Read more »
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The Return of Dead Letter Art
Dead Letter Art (DLa) is an esoteric underground art collective. The collective consists of eight core members that have known each other since high school, and have been creating and sharing their art for well over fifteen years. Sharing many common interests and influences, the DLa collective explores diverse artistic media, both individually and collectively. Their vast media expertise includes everything from drawing and painting to website development and multimedia production. Further, the group also embraces the [...] • Read more »
New Version of AddMySite Released!
We are happy to announce the release of AddMySite (AMS) version 0.77. The new version features support for syndicated content feeds, and enables users to add their site’s feed to fifteen different feed-syndication and social-aggregator sites. Plus, the new version of AMS includes twenty-five social-bookmarking services to which users may easily add your site. The entire list of 40 sites is concisely presented via drop-down menu or as a customizable list. One file. Simple installation. Easy to [...] • Read more »
WordPress Basics: Setting the Date, Author, and other Post Options
Note: This article continues a series of tutorials covering the very basics of using WordPress. Now that we are comfortable logging in, publishing a post, and saving and editing posts, it is time to look at a few other useful posting options. In this tutorial, we explain how to set and change the post date, post author, and several other useful post options. Setting/changing the post date and time By default, the date & time associated with [...] • Read more »
WordPress Basics: Saving and Editing Posts
Note: This article continues a series of tutorials covering the very basics of using WordPress. After logging in to WordPress and publishing a post, you may wish to return to the post for additional editing or to add new content. Or, perhaps you draft a post for which you would like to postpone publishing until later. This tutorial covers both of these processes. Editing a post that has already been published To edit a post that has [...] • Read more »
WordPress Basics: Publishing Posts
Note: This article continues a series of tutorials covering the very basics of using WordPress. Once you have successfully logged in to the WordPress Admin area, you may want to publish a post. To do so, follow these steps: 1. Locate and click on the Write tab Within the WordPress Admin, there are many menu tabs. Each tab provides access to a different feature of WordPress. To write and publish a post, locate and click on the [...] • Read more »
WordPress Basics: Login to Admin
Update (May 2011) – New screencast available on how to login to the WordPress Admin using version 3.1.2 (current). The article below may still be useful, but is quite old now and refers to an earlier version of WordPress. Note: This article begins a series of tutorials covering the very basics of using WordPress. To login to the WordPress (WP) Administration area, follow these steps: 1. Go to the Admin Login screen Go to the WordPress login [...] • Read more »
Hide Content on Windows 98SE
This brief tutorial on hiding content applies to Windows 95, 98, and 98SE. Although this method may be old hat or even irrelevant, I have found it useful on a number of occasions, and therefore found it worthwhile to include here for the sake of prosperity. On Windows 98SE (and others), it is possible to create a folder that is both listed and inaccessible via the Windows file system. Using an old DOS trick involving an obscure [...] • Read more »
Embed QuickTime Notes Plus
This post contains random notes for embedding QuickTime within web pages. QuickTime Embed Attributes via CSS <style> <!– embed, .embed { pluginspage: http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/; controller: false; autoplay: true; bgcolor: #000; loop: true; } //–> </style> • Read more »
Feed your Image via Atom or RSS
This quick tutorial explains how to add images to both Atom and RSS feeds. Although both formats allow for image-inclusion, feed-reader support for image-display is currently quite limited. Hopefully, that will change in the near future.. Images for Atom Feeds Images included within Atom feeds must have a ratio of either 1:1 or 2:1. There are no other restrictions as to file type or size. Use the < icon> XML element for URL’s targeting 1:1 images. Otherwise, [...] • Read more »