Those of my readers who are familiar with my first set of icons, may be pleased to know that I have now released an extended version. The Hot Pepper Silver Extended set contains four times as many icons as the Basic set, including the alphabet and all single digit numerals. You get four times the… Continue reading Extended Icon Set
Author: Kim Siever
I am a copywriter and copyeditor. I blog on writing and social media tips mostly, but I sometimes throw in my thoughts about running a small business.
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Location Poll
Either people aren’t reading my most recent post about Canada being able to support a third web development conference, or they really do think Canada can support a third one. If that’s true, then we should probably know where the most preferred location would be. As a result, I have developed this poll: The poll… Continue reading Location Poll
Canada Web Conference Location
Last night, I talked to Justin Kozuch, the executive director of DesignFest ’05. DesignFest was a new media conference held in Toronto in October, and Justin has intention on holding this every year. So it turns out after all that there is a Canadian-based web design conference. So my new question is two-fold. First, can… Continue reading Canada Web Conference Location
Error Messages
I registered a couple of domains with registerfly.com this week and went to change the DNS nameservers yesterday. For some unexplained reason, I kept getting an error that said the maximum number of connections had been exceeded. I have no idea what that meat. This morning I decided to try again and was still getting… Continue reading Error Messages
Calling All Canuck Web Developers and Designers
Jay Gilmore, of SmashingRed, and I have been discussing the availability (and/or feasibility) of Canadian-based web design conference. Jay posted on his blog the following: To all the Canadian developers and designers for the web, I noted a post on [thelist] the mail list of evolt.org wanting to know if their are any Canadian Web… Continue reading Calling All Canuck Web Developers and Designers
Google Validation Errors
Google doesn’t appear to be very standards oriented. I noticed these validation errors while searching for something on Google.
Firefox New Tab Shortcut
I discovered a new shortcut in Firefox 1.5 today. In the previous version of Firefox, I used the SuperDragAndGo extension to open links in new tabs. It turns out that in Firefox 1.5, you can drag a link onto the tab toolbar and a new link will open automatically. I love it when Firefox integrates… Continue reading Firefox New Tab Shortcut
Recently added files
I’ve been making some changes on our website that last few weeks to help improve the usability of our website and make information available in different ways. Most recently, the feature I added scans a directory for files that have been uploaded in the last seven days. It then lists the filename, adds a link… Continue reading Recently added files
Writely
I came across a cool web-based word processor today. It’s called Writely, and for the majority of the Word document I create, this does just fine. Very cool.
Horizontal Scrolling
I like to use my six-year-old daughter as a reminder of how basic computer users use the web. This morning she was trying to use a site that was designed for a 900×600 browser viewing size. Even though we have our monitor’s resolution set to 1024×768 and our browser is maximised, we also have the… Continue reading Horizontal Scrolling