Integrating CSS with Content Management Systems

Posted on Feb 26, 2008 09:20:49 PM

Building CSS editing features into our content management systems allows us to make style changes as easily as we make content changes. In the future, managing the design of a Web site at the tactical level will be as easy and efficient as managing content.

Managing presentation

Let’s assume we all run big, important Web sites that require content management systems for editing content. We go to our Web-based forms, edit the Read the rest of this entry »

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Hot Text, and Web Word Wizardry

Posted on Feb 24, 2008 05:05:50 AM

Hot Text: Web Writing That Works

Husband and wife team Jonathan and Lisa Price are veteran writers and editors with experience in print, television and online journalism. If anyone could write a book about the principles and practices of writing for the web, it would be them. I'm happy to report that the Prices have written what amounts to a textbook for web writers that should be just as relevant five years from now as it is today.

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Tags: Text, Wizardry, word

Introduction to Databases

Posted on Feb 22, 2008 06:47:16 AM

Once upon a time, the mark of a savvy company was having a Web site. Sites had lots of pages and if something needed to be changed, you'd call someone who would promise to look into it right away.

Then, a couple years ago, your competitors started bragging that their Web sites were dynamic and used databases. This didn’t bother or affect you until your favorite IT guy moved to the Caribbean and was replaced by an automated answering Read the rest of this entry »

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Everyone in Silico

Posted on Feb 18, 2008 02:31:17 PM

I haven't yet reviewed a novel for Digital Web Magazine, and technically, I'm not going to start now. In keeping with this month's theme, "Independent Web Publishing," though, I wanted to shine a spotlight on science fiction author Jim Munroe as a great example of someone using the web in new and innovative ways to publish and promote his work.

On May 4, I attended a reading given by Jim to launch his new novel, Everyone in Silico. Read the rest of this entry »

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