April 2006 Archives

David Jacobs made a post on ProNet mailing list this week, pointing us to a page at Type Pad which explains the default HTML template classes and CSS style sheet more clearly on two pages than I have been able to gather working with the stuff for almost a year. TypePad and Movable Type share some HTML and style sheet code in common because they are both products of SixApart.

David also deserves honorable mention for two other features of his blog "hello, typepad". First I though his design was pretty imaginative and quite pleasing while staying well within the original framework of the markup provided by Type Pad (or Movable Type.) The second feature of his blog that really made me smile was the testimonial from his mother, who is also a blogger.

Thanks for the reference David.

The server where Advisorbits is hosted was recently rebuilt, which is to say, it got a new operating system and hard drives. It has served me well for years. But like everything else, time changes the network environment. When I first deployed the server, there was little SPAM. And in my niavete' I was hoping not to have to deal with mail services... which any hosting provider can tell you is part of the package. I barely knew what a blog was (though not by that name) and certainly had never dreamed of comment SPAM.

Those days are gone.

I was standing in line in the local supermarket a while ago, and I had the hardest time finding the amount I owed on the screen of the cash register.

When I went back I took my camera and the nice lady thought I was a bit crazy for wanting to take a picture of the register. I noticed though that someone who works there must agree with me, because of the bright orange paper they added around the total.

Note to self for design of forms with numbers: Totals are naturally found at the bottom of the list of items, usually on the right. The upper left is the last place anyone looks, no matter how much attention one draws to it.