Category Archives: Webmastering

Expanding the mission of my blog script

One of the dilemmas I had to face in migrating to my new blog script is that all my old blog entries were no searchable except by the old blog script. This bothered me until I found an article that … Continue reading

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sIFR and Web Typography

Well–the “Yes, we know the Web is not print but it should be,” crowd finally achieved their grail: A means of injecting uncommon fonts into in pages without sacrificing accessibility, losing semantics or confusing search engines. sIFR does it all. … Continue reading

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Let's write better JavaScript!

Over the past few months I’ve been collecting many articles about JavaScript coding practices: JavaScript Optimization Strategies Unobtrusive JavaScript JavaScript and the DOM leaks like a sieve Ten good practices for writing JavaScript A Lint for JavaScript Optimizing JavaScript for … Continue reading

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What divisions and spans are meant for

Argh! I have a too many things to link to! I’ve decided to declare a moratorium on opening my feed reader or adding more bookmarks until I’ve cleared out some of these old, unclassified links out. Perhaps I’ll turn some … Continue reading

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Final blog mergings and source-ordered markup

Source-ordered markup with content first is better for accessibility.
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Not finished but it is mostly stable

So I’ve got the blog script mostly tuned. There still a zillion little details I will have to correct over the coming days: Getting my old static pages, navigation to comply with the new navigation. Getting my old blog pages … Continue reading

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The New Tool

So there are a lot things that I have to change. Luckily, I’ve figured out how to correct the MT’s URLs so that each directory terminates in an index page. But I’ve decided to move all my old Greymatter pages … Continue reading

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Refurbishing this site

Okay–anyone who’s bothered to read through the all the entries here at Farlops Industries has probably noticed several nagging doubts that have been gnawing at me for the last few years. Greymatter’s progress has fallen far behind most of the … Continue reading

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I have decided I don't like MT

On March 13th around 5:55 in the morning, I had just finished installing MovableType. It’s actually a well written piece of software, at least by my naive technician’s eyes, but, I simply don’t like the way the URLs are implemented. … Continue reading

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Well, so long GreyMatter

It’s been fun. It’s been nearly 4 years since I installed Greymatter and then extensively changed it to meet my needs. But now that I see that the Fish was able to install version 3.1 of MovableType and we share … Continue reading

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