I stumbled upon StumbleUpon (http://www.stumbleupon.com/) last summer and promptly forgot all about it. I just heard a rumor about Google looking into buying it, which makes me think we’ll hear more about it in the future. What is StumbleUpon? It’s a toolbar for your web browser that helps you find interesting web sites based on … Continue reading
Author Archives: Ann Treacy
Drop Down Menus on Web Sites
Today’s Byte is for web developers. A couple of weeks ago I created a text-based drop down menu for a web site. Here it is: http://www.mn150years.org (If you mouse over the navigation you’ll see the menu drop down.) One nice thing about a text-based drop down menu is that it is easier for search engines … Continue reading
Video Podcast
It’s been a hectic week so I’m recycling an article I wrote for another blog/newsletter, Blandin on Broadband; I thought folks would find it interesting http://blandinonbroadband.wordpress.com/2007/04/27/intro-to-flickr-video-podcast/ Last week I created my first video podcast. I did it using a resource called PodcastPeople to record the videocast. Then I posted it on YouTube, which makes it … Continue reading
Web 2.0 Presentation
Yesterday I gave a presentation with my friend David Erickson at e-Strategy (http://www.e-strategy.com/) at a conference sponsored by the Minnesota Council on Nonprofits (http://www.mncn.org/event_communicate.htm). We gave a presentation on Web 2.0. I gave a sneak preview a couple of weeks ago when I sent out a Byte on Twitter. Other topics we discussed included: • MySpace … Continue reading
Byte of the Week Blog
OK I’ve said it before but this time I really mean it. I moved the Byte to a blog (https://byteoftheweek.wordpress.com/). I spent literally hours this weekend cutting and pasting weekly articles as individual posts – going back to 2003! I added categories, an RSS feed, and I promise to try to add new posts to … Continue reading
Hello world!
Welcome to WordPress.com. This is your first post. Edit or delete it and start blogging! Continue reading
Last week I learned a little about Twitter (www.twitter.com). It’s kind of like speed blogging for the really lazy. You sign up and get free web space where you can post endless text messages. Generally those messages are very quick, 1-2 sentences. Here’s a sample from a complete stranger: http://twitter.com/MikeWills I picked his because his … Continue reading
Password Protection Tool
About six months ago I wrote an article on how to create a password protected site (http://www.treacyinfo.com/byte.htm#passwordpro). One catch is that the site had to be hosted on a UNIX-based server. Well this week I have had to find a solution to password-protect a folder on a web site on a Microsoft server. I am … Continue reading
Image Protection
I think we all know how to “lift” pictures from the web. If you use a PC, you just need to right click with your mouse on the picture. A dialog box will open and you will have the option to copy the picture or save it on your local drive. Of course just because … Continue reading
How people look at web sites / US recall service
have two Bytes in one today – for web owners and non-web owners: I haven’t looked at Usability much lately but I had reason to look into it this week. I ran across a study from Jakob Nielsen. He tracked how users look at web sites (http://www.useit.com/alertbox/reading_pattern.html). Nielsen is a well respected web site usability … Continue reading
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