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Definition of Entertainment In 21st Century

December 30th, 2006 by Osman S Borutecene

Below are some snapshots from todays Yahoo News, Entertainment section. Some of the news topics do not match the term entertainment in my mind. What do you think?

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Why Not To Use Word

December 30th, 2006 by Osman S Borutecene

A must read short article for bloggers from WordPress.Com

Posted in Daily, Blogging, Microsoft, Web Design, Theme, Template, Style, WordPress Theme, Blogger, WordPress, Word Press, Problogging, Usability, Design, WordPress Sidebar Widgets | No Comments »

Googlizer

December 25th, 2006 by Osman S Borutecene

A simple and handy utility for linux. It opens the default GNOME browser with a Google search on whatever you have in the X clipboard. I don’t know whether it has a port for windows xp or windows vista, but I tested it on Ubuntu Linux and it works just fine.

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Yet Another Technorati Annoyance

December 23rd, 2006 by Osman S Borutecene

I just made a search over Technorati for the word WordPress. There are many results just linking to “Hello World”, which is the default post of a WordPress installation.

Posted in Daily, Technorati, Blogging, Blogger, Web 2.0, Usability, Criticism, WordPress Sidebar Widgets | No Comments »

WordPress Features Shadowed by Blog Usage

December 23rd, 2006 by Osman S Borutecene

WordPress is beautiful and functional content management system. However, due to its excessive popularity among bloggers, it is mostly seen as a blogging-only tool.

WordPress has native features for a static home page in it. For instance, a WordPress installation first looks for home.php which can be used as a front page. It only loads index.php if there is no home.php specified. Let me tell you what that means in plain english: You don’t have to be stuck with themes and templates that are prepared primarily blogging in mind. WordPress has a feature so called pages, that are apart from the blogging cycle. By using home.php, header.php, footer.php, sidebar.php (alongside with sidebar widgets or not) and several pages.php, you can easily use WordPress for your static web site content, for instance for your corporate web site or brochure-ware.

I won’t go into detail right now because there are tons of documentation on the web about how to prepare a home.php, how to prepare page templates for WordPress.

Why should I use WordPress if I am going to have just a static web site?

Because you will still benefit from hundreds of plugins developed for bloggers. Then you will also benefit from a great documentation. Furthermore, you will take the advantage of WordPress’ builtin editor, management panel, etc.

Why don’t you put together a tutorial for what you tell here?

It’s just a matter of time. I’ll try to provide one soon.

Posted in Blogging, Web Design, Theme, Style, WordPress Theme, Blogger, WordPress, Word Press, Social, Web 2.0, Usability, Design | 1 Comment »

Weird Criticisms Over Web 2.0

December 21st, 2006 by Osman S Borutecene

It was a couple of months ago, I started to track criticisms of web 2.0, after having read something like “web 2.0 is all about fancy graphs and ajax” on the web.

Well, first of all, web 2.0 is a set of web applications and web sites which were not available with the technology and broadband internet connections a couple of years ago. Thus, first of all, web 2.0 is being able to watch a video of a breaking news over the net, without major interrupting of the video and and without being stuck in a low resolution and being able to watch it in a size that is bigger than a square-inch.

Now, I would like to say some more on “the fancy graphs”. It looks weird to me that when some people come across a design which is more usable and more readable than the past, their first reactions is really cheesy. I agree that there are very amateur designs that aim just being fancy only. However, there are lots of improvements in usability and readability of the web since web 2.0 is here. The reason it got more usable and more readable is that educated people on design and usability are hired more than the neighbor’s son as a web designer and developer.

Some people even criticize the use of big fonts, white space, etc. in a way as if they are not necessary for the presentation of information in a web site.

I just don’t understand why sometimes some people tend to get irritated by better design and better usability. This is why I call that a weird criticism.

Posted in Web Design, Web 2.0, Usability, Design, World, Criticism | 1 Comment »

Microsoft.com Has a New Design Too

December 16th, 2006 by Osman S Borutecene

Microsoft redesigned Microsoft.com

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WordPress.com Reboot!

December 14th, 2006 by Osman S Borutecene

WordPress.com has a new design.

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An HP Trouble

December 14th, 2006 by Osman S Borutecene

A complaint about the poor quality of service about HP.

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Annoying Technorati Search Results

December 9th, 2006 by Osman S Borutecene

I like visiting Technorati and look for what is hot. However, especially in the last couple of weeks, some bloggers abuse Technorati search results by both tagging their every single post with the most searched 15 topics in Technorati and using these as keywords in their posts. That makes it really difficult if something you really need to search is on Technorati’s popular searches list.

I am sure that the Technorati team is working on that and I hope they come up with a solution soon. A feature such as being able to vote for search results would be interesting and help build a cleaner better Technorati search.

Posted in Daily, Technorati, Blogging, Vlog, Blogspot, Blogger, WordPress, Problogging, Social | No Comments »