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.
I recently signed up for a Twitter account. I’m a little skeptical about allowing yet more chatter to compete for my attention. I’ve been taking a very cautious approach to it by keeping “work” and “productivity” in mind when deciding who to follow or when to “tweet.” So far, I’m following various tech nerds, such as web developers, and some organizer types – so I can see how they approach this whole Twitter thing.
Free online tool: Color Scheme Designer
This is a great resource if you don’t even want to think about it, or when you just need a helping hand.
Tips for web writing
“5 Writing Tips for Web Designers” has good advice for those of you who write for the web. Below is my summary and commentary. Also, see this related post.
1. Basically, it’s all about your customers’ needs for finding information, becoming a member, getting involved, donating, whatever. Everything – including links, navigation, info – should work together to meet this goal.
This is a multi-chapter curriculum that offers tutorials on web design concepts, HTML basics, CSS basics, web accessibility, best practices and more. I haven’t yet delved into this in detail, but I’m really excited to. I think this might be a great supplement to the mighty W3 Schools.
There are many advantages to building a site on top of WordPress:
A site can be built and handed over to a nonprofit organization to take ownership of. WordPress updates and upgrades are a breeze. As the future unfolds and plugins develop, your site moves with it. There are a ton of great plugins to expand what WordPress can do. Here are some I use:
In an earlier post, I wrote about the joys of Linux, specifically Ubuntu. Linux users have the choice of a fantastic pdf reader, KPDF.
When using KPDF’s “select” tool, you draw a rectangle to make a selection, then you are given some choices for copying:
You’re thinking about moving to Linux, or you recently have done so, and you’re wondering, “what is the Linux or open source alternative to xxx software I loved when I used Windows?” This has got to be one of the most common questions for Linux users.
A lot of this software has dominated our ways of thinking that it’s hard for some to imagine a world without Microsoft Word, Outlook, MovieMaker, Adobe Reader, iTunes, or whatever.
Well, here are two great resources for open source software. Break free of the old ways of thinking and explore these two helpful sites. Much of the software listed is also available for Windows and Mac users.
While I was assisting a friend and client with the setup of his new email account, I was frustrated that I couldn’t simply access his computer remotely. “Whoa, hold on there”, he said. “Go to LogMeIn.com”
I was skeptical because I was using a computer running Linux and sometimes weird web apps don’t play nicely with me.
No worries, everything worked like a charm. I entered his email and password, and pow!, I was controlling his computer. It was a bit creepy, he later said, as he watched me control his mouse, keyboard – his whole computer. I quickly set up his Thunderbird email client so as to send and receive using his new email address.
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