Archive for August, 2006

New ActivNet Portal

Wednesday, August 30th, 2006

There’s been some major thought processes happening lately. More specifically, how are we going to tie all of our network together in a nice neat bundle. A pretty easy job you might think hey! But not quite!
You see… our loverly friends the search engines have been having such fun & games over [...]

What’s cool?

Friday, August 25th, 2006

Recently I have been wondering if I should use my 18yr old daughter as a financial forecaster. Not because she is a wiz at finance or business… but because her & her friends always seem to be 6mnth – 1yr ahead of what takes off on the net & what doesnt.
Blogs were cool before [...]

Directory Facelift & Upgrade

Friday, August 25th, 2006

About a year ago I was undecisive about what to do with the WDC, but about 8mnths ago I decided I would do it up, give it a fresh coat of paint, add a few more features, and see if we could breathe some fresh air into it.
Well, the Blog you are reading now is [...]

IE7 & FireFox Updates

Friday, August 25th, 2006

http://news.yahoo.com/s/cmp/20060825/tc_cmp/192205017
“We’re trying to strike a balance between compliance and compatibility,” she said. “We don’t want to lave our application and site developers behind.”
I was always under the impression that compliance & compatability came hand in hand… except for IE. Why don’t statements like this inspire me with faith in them yet?
I’ll stick with [...]

Thanks to Vinnie!

Friday, August 25th, 2006

Vincent Marcello from Southbourne Internet kindly lent his expetise to making the WDC blog more SE friendly, and added a few plugins along the way.
I was a little busy & distracted at the time, so didn’t get time to thank him, so decided I would do it here
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Who says you can’t have Accessible Portals??

Wednesday, August 23rd, 2006

Congratulations to Search and Go who have joined the rare few portals that are actually accessible and adhere to W3C web coding standards!
For too long I have been hearing how “it’s just not possible sometimes because of tools”. Well, this is proving to be an antiquated arguement these days! With a little thought [...]