Posts Tagged: Web Development
it's a designer eat designer world
Posted by on Tuesday, December 4, 2001 in - 2 comments
AIGA, the American Institute of Graphic Arts has a site on User Experience called Gain. Ironically, it takes quite a bit of patience to navigate. If you do manage to find your way around, you might come across an interesting graphic illustrating the distilling of the many pioneering web-firms into …
aov complies with the w3c
Posted by on Monday, October 29, 2001 in - 8 comments
Warning: what follows may be considered boring by some readers - especially non-geeks (if there are any). • Ladies and gentlemen, actsofvolition.com is now compliant with the The World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) HTML 4.01 Transitional recommendation*. • The good people at The Web Standards …
I am a human portal.
Posted by on Monday, May 21, 2001 in
There is a good intro the world of web logs in May's issue of Brill's Content called Human Portals. Matt Haughey of MetaFilter graces the cover. I suggest you print it off and read it on the lawn like I did (sunny day recommended).
Tim Berners-Lee's Semantic Web
Posted by on Sunday, April 22, 2001 in - 4 comments
If you are interested in the future of the web and computing in general, read The Semantic Web in the May issue of Scientific American. Co-authored by Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the web, the article explores the possibilities of having a machine-readable web, rather than a web intended only for …
the 5k audi tt vr gallery
Posted by on Sunday, April 8, 2001 in - 3 comments
The5k is a web competition in which the entries must be less than 5 kilobytes (5,120 bytes) in total file size. To put that in perspective, the front page of actsofvolition.com today is 28 kilobytes of text/HTML and over 41 kilobytes of images. From the5k.org: • “ • PURPOSE • The idea behind …
aov does xml
Posted by on Tuesday, January 16, 2001 in
First, let us get some acronym* definitions out of the way: • aov - acts of volition • XML - Extensible Markup Language • RDF - Resource Description Framework • RSS - RDF Site Summary • With that out of the way, aov has setup an RSS channel. RSS is an XML application based on the World …
popularity continues to eludes me even into adulthood
Posted by on Sunday, September 10, 2000 in
I'm not sure what this means but I'm sure you can deduce something from it. Here is a top-down view of the 50 most visited websites on the web.