Interestingly enough I received two job applications tonight. I am not hiring. In fact, I don’t even own a business. I do not even advertise myself as a business. I find it kind of interesting though because it says something toward my branding efforts. What else was interesting is that both applicants had the email… Continue reading Job Applicants
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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IE 7 to Be More Standard Compliant
Chris Wilson, the lead program manager for the web platform in IE, announced on the IE Blog that IE 7 will be rid of many of the CSS inconsistencies that plague IE currently. To boot, it will also support PNG transparency. Oh how I’ve wanted this for a while. Support the alpha channel in PNG… Continue reading IE 7 to Be More Standard Compliant
Firefox Keyboard Navigation
Firefox is playing around with keyboard navigation. Although that idea is far from new, the spin here is that the keystroke combinations take users to the next link by visual position, not its place in the HTML source code. To move to a link immediately to the right of the current link, users would press… Continue reading Firefox Keyboard Navigation
My Search History
Google is advancing personal search. The new Google service, available starting Wednesday on Google Labs, tracks every search users have done when they are signed on to My Search History and it also lets them search all the pages they’ve found using Google.com’s search engine. Users will be able to review the full text of… Continue reading My Search History
Google Maps in the UK & Ireland
Google has gone outside of North america for Google Maps. It now includes the UK and Ireland. I’m delighted to introduce Google Local UK and Google Maps UK. The Google UK office and a few of us homesick Brits in California have been helping out with the development.
Google Q&A
Google just released a new search feature called Google Q&A that allows user to ask a question and receive an answer based on compiled information around the web. Have you ever needed a piece of info right now? Today we’re excited to introduce Google Q&A. We’ve pulled together facts from all over the Web to… Continue reading Google Q&A
Google Changes Search Limit
I do not know when it happened, but at some point, Google changed their search query word limit from 10 words to 32 words. Good. There have been a few instances where i needed more than 10 words. Thanks, Google.
Thumbnail Horizontal Scroller
I am in the middle of redesigning an image gallery and I wanted to create a navigational tool to make browsing the images easier. Until now, it was simply a pop-up window with hard coded next and previous buttons. I started by creating a ColdFusion page that would pull the country value and picture number… Continue reading Thumbnail Horizontal Scroller
Yahoo! Toolbar for Firefox
The Yahoo! Toolbar is now available for Firefox. Not only that, but it works on Mac and Windows operating systems. Yahoo has fulfilled promises to bring its full range of toolbar features to Firefox, releasing an updated beta with spyware protection. Yahoo Toolbar provides bookmarking and search capabilities, along with translation, mail notification and built-in… Continue reading Yahoo! Toolbar for Firefox
Google Satellite Maps
When will it end? In an effort to out pace Yahoo! Maps, Google has now implemented integration of satellite imagery with Google Maps. Users can now switch between the traditional map view and the satellite view. So now not only can you use Google Maps to see how to get to a location, you can… Continue reading Google Satellite Maps