Contents: Web Design / Misc

Most of these are pretty dated and probably useless, if even still online... Sorry, but it's a full-time job to keep up with links to interesting articles... have to start a blog someday as a better mechanism... ~jw

Web Design

• Webmonkey Feature: Your First Database
  Building a Web-based database application isn't as hard as you think. In this set of feature articles from Hotwired's Webmonkey, Jay Greenspan walks you through the various theories and philosophical tropes involved with databases and then vaults into relational databases; defining tables; connecting your stuff to a Web server; the ins and outs of SQL, ADO, and ASP; other impressive-sounding acronyms; and a lot more. Fear not, for fear is the mind killer.

• useit.com - Jakob Nielsen
  Jakob Nielsen has excellent info and columns on Web usability and interface design. See the Alertbox bi-weekly column.

• SunWorld - Webmaster Column
  SunWorld has a number of authors producing great material here on a number of topics. My favorite is the Webmaster column by Chuck Musciano.

  On Authoring and Graphics...

  • Elements of Web Design
  • HTML Tips and tricks
  • Advanced HTML Tips
  • Stupid Web tricks
  • Great tips from CNET Designers
    • Part 1: Individual Elements
    • Part 1: Designing Pages and Sites
  • Web site speed tweaks
  • 20 Questions about HTML 4.0
  • Web development for 4.0 browsers (Getting started with CSS)
    See also the CSS Reference Table
  • The abc's of CGI

• WebWare Monthly
  Selena Sol is writing the WebWare Monthly column for the Web Developers Virtual Library (WDVL). "A monthly column for the cultural anthropologist and other liberal arts hackers gone Webmaster " Very useful for script use. Selena is perhaps best-known for creating the Public Domain CGI Script Archive and writing several books on Web Programming (Perl, CGI, Java). Some favorites:
  • What is a Webmaster?
  • Security Issues When Installing and Customizing Pre-Built Web Scripts
  • Web Programming 101 - Server / Client
  • Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Broken CGI Script

• Misc ASP Articles
  • Authentication Tutorial
  • PCMag: PCTech: Visual InterDev and ASP
  • PCMag: PCTech: Database Connectivity and the Internet
  • PCMag: PCTech: Scripting with ASP

Miscellaneous

• The Internet Debacle - An Alternative View
  A well-written and thought-provoking article by artist Janis Ian on the situation with large music companies vs. music downloading. See also the follow-up, Fallout - a follow up to The Internet Debacle.

• 10 Laws the Net Needs   (Please read and Vote)
  The folks at CNET (http://www.cnet.com/) have adopted a "if you can't beat 'em, join 'em" attitude when it comes to Internet legislation (and Internet laws). Accordingly, CNET has drafted a list of ten Internet laws that they would like to see introduced,

  proposals dealing with real issues like the proliferation of spam, the invasion of online privacy, and yes, the too-easy access to pornography. Some of our ideas match bills Congress is already considering; others address problems that Washington hasn't thought of yet.

  To tell the truth, I'm not quite certain that CNET intends or even desires to see all of their laws implemented. In fact, I'm willing to bet that a lot of netizens probably don't agree with all of CNET's proposals. My guess is that CNET just wants us to think about and discuss the legal issues that the Internet will face in the immediate future.

  Each page in this series of Web pages introduces a particular Internet issue and provides some background information that attempts to support CNET's position on this issue. ... deleted ... at the bottom of every one of these statements is a place where you can vote on whether you agree or disagree with CNET's position.

  [quoted from http://cnet.com/Content/Features/Dlife/Laws10/ and Tourbus 3/26/98]

• PC Magazine - Solutions (Add an Extension to an Existing File Type)
  I wrote this and PCMag published it in their 4/21/98 issue under the User-to-user column. This is the first time I've had something published. Wohoo!

• Hortico Site Spotlight
  Hortico's site and my development work on it was recently (6/26/98 - 7/10/98) featured as a Site Spotlight on the Allaire Homesite Developer Center. My second almost-publication. Wohoo!!

• Identity Theft
  These article convers identity theft and some ways to protect yourself against this new form of fraud/theft.
  • Protect your ID
  • Identity Theft a big business
  • Protecting your digital ID
  • Congress Acts On Privacy Concerns

• Inside Netscape
  A good BusinessWeek article about corporate Netscape.

• Boston's Scholz engineers a rock dynasty
  "The rock band Boston is familiar to just about anyone with a radio. But few fans may realize that the creative force behind Boston's distinctive sound is an engineer.". From EE Times. See also Scholz reinvented rock-processing equipment.