By Dposorio | Published:
February 25, 2010
As I mentioned before, I am a big fan of the redesign of whitehouse.gov that happened when Obama was inaugurated. One of the other things I impressed me was its use of a slider on the home page to trumpet featured posts. Because I am in the middle of a building a new website for [...]
Posted in web design and development | Tagged CSS, cycle plugin, demo, example, Javascript, Jquery, Obama, slider, slideshow, tutorial, whitehouse.gov |
By Dposorio | Published:
February 22, 2010
Two versions of the same song, both performed by one of my favorite bands, Sly & the Family Stone.
By Dposorio | Published:
February 15, 2010
I have been loving the redesign of whitehouse.gov that coincided with Obama’s inauguration since, well, his inauguration. One of the things that impressed me the most is its navigational menu. It is a horizontal, pull-down style menu, but what is most interesting to me is the “mega” nature of the sub-menus. It so happens that [...]
Posted in web design and development | Tagged CSS, demo, drop down, example, horizontal, Javascript, Jquery, menu, Obama, submenu, tutorial, whitehouse.gov |
By Dposorio | Published:
January 13, 2010
UPDATE: This post has been rendered moot. Avast now has a scheduler built in! The post will be kept here for those of you who have not upgraded to the latest version. In an earlier post, I detailed “How to schedule automatic scans with free version of Avast! on Vista.” I just tested it out [...]
This post is a continuation of an earlier one detailing how to merge datasets in Excel or OpenOffice’s Calc. A reader, Tina, asked “What if you have more than one column to lookup to get the match value?” This post is a response to that question. A merge of two datasets requires at least one [...]
Posted in spreadsheets (Excel or Calc) | Tagged Calc, data, dataset, datasets, Excel, formulas, merge, OpenOffice, paste special, spreadsheet, tutorial, two columns, vlookup |
UPDATE: This post has been rendered moot. Avast now has a scheduler built in! The post will be kept here for those of you who have not upgraded to the latest version. Avast! Home Edition is a free antivirus program. You can read more about it on the Wikipedia entry. The free version can be [...]
Adam Green posted this article on OpenLeft criticizing a mass email he received from the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee.
RSS feeds have been around for a long time. My experience with them was limited to adding the NY Times and the BBC as “Live Bookmarks” in Firefox. Slowly, I began to realize that there is more to it than that – a lot more. This is not an exhaustive list of uses for RSS [...]
Posted in blogging, e-activist tools, web design and development | Tagged blog, feeds, Firefox, Flickr, Google Reader, MySpace, non profit organizations, reader, rss, social networking, tutorial, Twitter |
There are a lot of different reasons why you may want to start a poll (or survey) from the trivial (who is the best James Bond?) to serious (what are your experiences with your health insurer?). Want to collect data for your research? Engage members? Read on.