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Goo-Wide-Web - A ring for web related design

Cool! It's almost Quetzal coatl, Feathered serpent of mesoamerica!!
Or is it Don Quixote??

Quixotic Pixels

Four Blogs. Building online community. Can it go wrong?

Kenneth Hunt :: Tech Observer

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reading & writing Might find some good stuff here on writing

eClasses.org Course Description Member Price: $80.00 US - CSS jan 3rd

RE-ENTER UWW Fall 2003. Jr. Writing.
Spring 2004 2 Diversity Classes
Fall 2004 Writing About Experience

Fusaka Std Ooh, Yummy, thanks Bob. I know a certain CAT site that could use this.

INKPOT BOOKS PAGE hey mom a good one for yours sites

Box Model Hack Mom!!

A List Apart: CSS Rollovers Anna! 4 u!!

Get Certified" The WOW Certified Associate Webmaster (CAW) examination measures essential competencies for aspiring or practicing Webmasters. The examinee must demonstrate knowledge of Internet basics, HTML, Web graphics, Web multimedia, Web site design, Web site management, Web project management, Web marketing, Web accessibility, and basic legal issues at the standard defined by this test specification."

UWW Forms as .RTF files

Web Philosophy Our Web Philosophy

Numbering Systems "page number it separate from the book. For page numbering, in this first part, I use lower case Roman numerals. For reference, here is the page order of the elements I used in my last book.
Page i Title page."

Minna J. Bassett, Writing that Bytes "Even if your writing style is a "stream of consciousness," the stream starts with consciousness." - Minna J. Bassett

Developing a Departmental Style Guide A style guide is a reference document that includes rules and suggestions for writing style and document presentation.

WOW Certifications

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Townies? Any memory of Lewiston Maine? Oh, those townies... On television, Elfman earned raves for her scene-stealing performance in the ABC series, Townies.

Street Tech :: hardware beyond the hype sucks-less personal tech review site

Fun perspective on work! AstrologyZone Your mind is crackling with new ideas. Write some of them down! With your mental energies so strong, you can write a book, design a new line of clothes, or learn Italian — there is no limit to your abilities to learn, write, speak or create.

Tireli.com | Mobile Lifestyle Trends Blog: Cellulari, Palmari, PDA, Notebook, Gadget, Audio/Video Player, Periferiche... Mobile Lifestyle Trends Blog:

UMass Amherst/credit courses winter '03 ENGLISH 391P
Seminar in Writing About Food for Fun and Financial Reward
This course explores the pleasures of writing about food and the income opportunities it offers by teaching participants to write various food-related documents including newspaper articles, press releases, food history essays and analytical critiques of food and wine. Meets with HRTA 391P. 3 credits. $150 per credit.
Instructor: Claire Hopley
e-mail: claire32@juno.com

85793, sem 1, M-Th 1:30-4:30 p.m. | Register

Div. of Cont. Educ.--UMass Amherst/noncredit workshops fall '02 Saturday, December 7, 8:15 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
Willits-Hallowell Center, Mt. Holyoke College, So. Hadley, MA
Getting it Right: Writers' Rights, Resources, Relationships, Risks, and Rewards $80

UMASS | Welcome to the University of Massachusetts Amherst virtual campus

The University Without Walls at the U. of Massachusetts UWW provides a process by which students can develop an experience-based portfolio to present for academic credit. It also offers unusually comprehensive and supportive advising

The Webby Awards: People's VoiceThey want to know what you think. So do I. Tell me abou the web in society.

Hey Marcia, Sam Brown is looking for online illustrators!! Not to work, just to share...Check out Exploding dog.com: explodingdog 2002 "I am looking for sites with drawings, doodles or sketches on them.
I want drawings that have been done as personal work. Drawings that have been done quickly. Done a least partially by hand, even if they were done on the computer."

Sites that help monitor the online experience. This is C'est Magnifique!
Gel Conference - Speakers
Gel 2003 Speakers
Here are the initial speakers who have accepted the Gel invitation. More are coming soon; we're aiming for 16 speakers in total for the day.

Considering a career change? Applicants must have a Ph.D. or
equivalent experience in social psychology. In addition, six or
more years of successful research, research administration and
/or managerial experience beyond the Ph.D. pertinent to the
position is required. Applicants should be familiar with a broad
spectrum of the social psychology research community. Qualified
persons who are women, ethnic/racial minorities, and persons with
disabilities are strongly encouraged to apply."

Sample Issue - Element K Journals Inside Web Design by Element K features an article on Blogging!

handy little list note, dreams link has been changed. replace "summer.html" with "blogs/" in your browser's URL. -- URLyGrl

garcia.media | News a visual, tactile experience that both accents and advances the editorial.

Tangled web This Tangled Web site has nice design and well organized collection of information. This page may just make it to the Great Design. Email me if you find Clean, simple and elegant sites!

Someone sent me this site today..should be pretty generous in JavaScipting.JavaScript Section - Homepage"This category explains some of the fundamentals of JavaScript. Again, no scripts in these pages, just an explanation how a few very important things work in JavaScript. these examples will teach you how to write your own code."

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Hi,
What are the best tech training courses for the industry these days?
Email me with your thoughts!

Web Design - WebReference.com Design includes skilled page layout, graphic design, use of white space, rhythm, and nuance.

Are you employed? There is still work to be done, but WHAT is the work, and HOW are companies paying for it? Last year certain insurance and financial services companies sliced off all temporary workers, keeping and converting fulltimers. This year different companies, such as those specializing in HealthCare and Retirement & Investment services are Thin on fulltimers and Splurging on Consultants. Read one concern here...more on this by me, later...Earthweb IT Management: Career/Staffing: Harsh Fall: High-Tech Layoffs Soar In October "When we hit the 22-month low in September, it looked like layoffs were finally becoming manageable, but this has thwarted that thought," says John Challenger, CEO of Challenger, Gray & Christmas. "The fact that we've returned to levels we were seeing in 2001 is a real cause for concern."

DHTML Lab: Dynamic HTML Tutorials, DHTML Scripts, Programming, Tools, Code, and Examples - dhtmlab.com "Every other week, a new column with practical examples to use in your web pages."

Dmitry's Design Lab - Graphic Web Design Using Fonts, Photography, Animation and HTML - WebReference.com" for everyone interested in the important basics of design proper---design as art and science. Such design essentials as color, fonts, shape, texture, dynamism, the principles of using artwork, photography, and animation, plus some more specific issues such as web site navigation or logo design, are treated in detail and illustrated by case web design projects."

Hmmmm.....

The SUN is still HOT!
Sun[tm] ONE Middleware Developer - A portal can bring together technology, business processes, and business partners, enabling the organization to exchange information inside and outside the firewall. A portal allows an organization to employ a single URL through which users receive customized and even personalized information, as well as vital business applications"

PRINCE2.com. Project Management (Fundamentals). PRINCE2 and Project Management Fundamentals

More on Jeff here....Dr. Jeff Sutherland's Biographical Sketch" He has been CTO/VP of Engineering of nine software technology companies and introduced improved agile development processes to each of them"

Jeff Sutherland's SCRUM Log Sanjay Murthi, New Architect, October 2002 Sanjay Murthi..familiar name...probably coincidence. Check out NEw Architect and also Jeff Sutherland's Scrum log.

Jeff Sutherland's Object Technology Web Site Hmmm, nice site Jeff! I'm checking it out to see where we overlap. I see you have New Architect magazine popped up on your Oct 19, '02 entry. Do you like it better now or before as web techniques? Or is it about the same with the newest trends reflected? I don't have commenting set up, so write me at Kate@URLyGrl.com.

IBM Accessibility Center: IBM Home Page Reader 3.0 Home Page Reader (HPR) is a spoken on-ramp to the Information Highway for computer users who are blind or visually impaired.

Lynx Viewer Hey this is totally cool. See how great, or bad, or sim[ple your pages look in text only!!!

"Digital Web Magazine - Features: Accountability of Accessibility and Usability I wanted to find out why Southwest's site became a target of this litigious trend and determine ways to prevent such lawsuits against sites I help build." - Anitra Pavka, Digital Web

Panorama Software For publishing interactive photographs and panoramas on your site.

Boxes and Arrows: Coming of Age As the information glut moves more and more online, our skills and expertise are fundamental to the success of an audience intent on finding the information they seek. The need for structure around our profession is becoming clearer. Most of us come from other fields: library science, technical writing, graphic design, among others.

Blogzilla - a blog about Mozilla a list of some recent Mozilla vulnerabilities.

Synchronicity Times - Online Magazine Synchronicity Times is dedicated to the understanding of synchronicity, and helping others utilize this phenomenon in determining their life path.

Main Entry: syn·chro·nic·i·ty
Pronunciation: "si[ng]-kr&-'ni-s&-tE, sin-
Function: noun
Date: circa 1889
1 : the quality or fact of being synchronous
2 : the coincidental occurrence of events and especially psychic events (as similar thoughts in widely separated persons or a mental image of an unexpected event before it happens) that seem related but are not explained by conventional mechanisms of causality -- used especially in the psychology of C. G. Jung Merriam-Webster OnLine

Check out how to have multiple blogs on a site

Find Kathy MacDonald

Power Without the Wires No more "tangle of battery chargers?" for our wireless devices? Or just one...

FP 2002 Web Site Management Tool?Christmas List?

MS Excel 2002 for XP Christmas List?

Kate & Coffee

kottke.org :: home of fine hypertext products Bonjour from Paris

[stop] design The site is a collection of Doug's creative work, articles, experiments, and thinking surrounding his experience and view of the world as a designer and problem solver

BLOGGER - Template Contest In order to get this done at the same time, we've decided to hold a contest for designers who would like to take a stab at what they think Blogger should look like.

Web-centric Enterprise Project and Portfolio Management Software The All new PMO Office

matt jones | work & thoughts "It also makes the city a rich source to sample from with your camphone. If you want to compose a witty montage to communicated with friends, then your pallette is all around you."

IAwiki: BlogsOfNote Blogs of note for IA

AIFIA | 25 Theses "This work is both a science and an art."

AIFIA | About AIfIA "3. An emerging community of practice focused on bringing principles of design and architecture to the digital landscape." Ooh, dreamy definition. Check the site for numbers 1 and 2 in defining info architecture!

blogrolling.com - the best link manager for your weblog and more! If you're tired of editing your website's html everytime you want to add or remove a simple link then blogrolling is for you.

Digital Web Magazine - Tutorial: Web Page Reconstruction with CSS"Divide the Page Sections
After stripping the page down to its bare bones, you'll want to divide the page into sections"

Digital Web Magazine - Tutorial: Web Page Reconstruction with CSS As David says, "anything worth doing is worth doing again."

Digital Web Magazine - About Digital Web Magazine is an online magazine intended for professional web designers.

Textism "I have great hopes for it becoming a reliable source of comment and information freed of the sentimental histrionics and pre-emptive ridicule of any opposing view germane to warblogs.."

DesignWritings When we can spend our time "doing" our work instead of "justifying" it we will all be better off.

About (Tomalak's Realm) Tomalak's Realm is a daily source of links to strategic Web design stories.

Change ManagementProjectWorld - Planning Successful Change Don’t forget the other three essentials. First - Communicate early. Second - Communicate often. Third – Communicate honestly.

Scope Change and Requirements ManagementProjectWorld - Case Modeling We went from the Waterfall methodology to the Whale model, to Rapid Application Development to Iterative Project Management, and each new process claimed to reduce the software development cycle time. Each has had both advantages and disadvantages, but none has proven totally satisfactory. One reason for the disillusion is that none addresses gathering and managing requirements both quickly and thoroughly.

One proven approach for quick and complete requirements-gathering is what I call “concurrent modeling.”

Well, my lovely URLyGrl readers...especially those of you with desktop/IT experience...Do you recall that desktop applicaitons were getting bigger and clunkier and taking up more and more harddrive space, warranting these super harddrives and super processors? but then the web came along, and '99-2000 brought fancy web applications that could work via the browser? This extended people's old machines a little longer and let Win98 hang around a bit longer. IBM and Lotus delivered one of the all time most robust and biggest, flexible client server applications providing everything from email to snazzy database and collaboration to the work place. It wasn't pretty however when it came to supporting Notes. Ultraconfigurable meant user-dangerous, and an unsuspecting desktop support person could acidentally remove entire databases instead of a short cut on one person's laptop. Microsoft offered lots of parts but nothing streamlined in a single package. Full Outlook was a start, but didn't quite stand up to Notes. The non-Microsoft world was luck to have any application, or applicaitons that did work did not work on both home (linux) and work(Microsoft) operating systems. What to do? Well Microsoft fans (or those forced to use microsoft in the work place) will be happy to hear that Microsoft is finally bringing things together....Project Managers are probably getting their feet wet now if they haven't already piloted Project Server 2000 on XP. Read on, MacBeth! --Kate ProjectWorld - News Detail "With new enterprise functionality and analytical tools, the expanded Microsoft Project 2002 family combines intuitive project management, accessibility and collaboration, and a powerful project management platform to foster greater productivity and better business results."

PMO - Project & Program Management Office Deliverables | gantthead "What is the difference between project management and program management? Is the distinction important to you? Or is this merely semantics? How is the distinction helpful to you in your work? What is the relationship between the two and how do they work together?"

Methods and Means- Projects@Work"Integrated project data is the cornerstone of program and enterprise project management."

In Box - Projects@Work September 2002 "Methods can provide a common language for organizations to approach projects, but they don't have all the answers. Software tools can enable an environment of efficiency, consistency and collaboration, but they can't do the thinking for you. They can facilitate decisions, but they shouldn't be making them."

In Box - Projects@Work September 2002 Project Managers shouldn't implement tools and rules until they think about the why and how.

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