Ever since I came across Dan Cederholm’s SimpleBits website, I have enjoyed developing icons. With my work on the University of Lethbridge Faculty of Management website, I’ve developed a small set of icons. I call it the Hot Pepper Silver Icons set, and I am making it public for purchase. It’s a basic set consisting… Continue reading New Icons
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.
Follow me on Twitter at @hotpepper.
RSS and ColdFusion
RSS is rapidly becoming a popular format for providing content. It allows users to subscribe to bits of information, so they can be notified when new information has been posted. I’ve been tossing around the idea of implementing RSS at work lately, and wanted to do it with ColdFusion. I finally buckled down and put… Continue reading RSS and ColdFusion
The 7 points of email etiquette
I’ve been on the Internet for 9 years. During this time, I’ve seen a lot of people come online. We’ve gone to being the only ones in the family with Internet access to using the Internet to plan a family reunion. We’ve gone from no businesses in our city having a website to being able to… Continue reading The 7 points of email etiquette
Jakob Has It Wrong
Jakob Nielsen, well known for his usability advocacy, recently wrote a post called Weblog Usability: The Top Ten Design Mistakes. I think he’s off his rocker. I am disappointed in the article. 1. No author biographies Okay, I agree with this one. I think a blog should have an author bio, but I don’t see… Continue reading Jakob Has It Wrong
GMail Mailing Lists and Groups
Some of my readers are familiar with my post on GMail Folders that shows a workaround for the seemingly absent email folders that abound in other software. I thought I would also post on how to create mailing lists (or mailing groups) in GMail. A mailing list is handy because you can specify a list… Continue reading GMail Mailing Lists and Groups
Stolen Logo
I came across the University of Dayton’s MyLife at UD site today and for some reason the little header icons they were using seemed very familiar. I could have sworn I had seen them before. So, I went browsing to Dan Cederholm‘s website because it looked like something he would have made. I browsed through… Continue reading Stolen Logo
Spruced Up Site Maps v2
Some website developers are familiar with my ALA article “Spruced Up Site Maps” where I use CSS to format a plain site map in a way that resembles something more like a structured directory. Due to a comment from an ALA reader, I added JavaScript later on to the site map in an effort to… Continue reading Spruced Up Site Maps v2
Hit the Big Time
I’ve hit the big time. You know you’re popular when your name is generated as random text in a spam blog. Woodswesternwear I feel like a movie star.
Print Design
Does anyone know of some thorough, comprehensive resources for learning the fundamentals of print design? My work responsibilities may be expanding in the near future and there are no local educational programmes for learning professional print design.
Hot Pepper T-shirt
My birthday present was ringer T-shirt from my HotPepper.ca store. I think my children (6 and 4) were more excited about me opening it than I was. Now they think (since we bought a shirt for the baby a few weeks ago) that they should get some and that Mary should as well. A hot… Continue reading Hot Pepper T-shirt