After a most excellent dinner with Ricky, Alex and Ricky’s son Marcus, I learnt more about databases than I ever thought existed. I also learnt two disturbing things: 1) My church still uses a predominantly paper-based filing system – which means migration to electronic records (for integration with the new website) is going to be …

Tonight I’m having dinner with the rest of the church website team. My company may be able to give them a content management system with minimal charges. But it would’ve been fun to see how far we could’ve gotten, completely free with PHP/mySQL and Perl.

After reading Jakob Nielsen’s latest article on Style Sheets, I thought, okay, I know designers are guilty of fixing font sizes so that everybody without perfect screen vision won’t be able to adjust the size of the text they’re trying to read. So how do we alter our style? We use relative (percentage) size specifications. …

The upholder of Web Standards is also a champion of web designer rights. And I thought I was the only one suffering from dealings with people who don’t know how to work a browser properly.