Archive for Blog Development

Olympic Television on the Internet

Readers of this blog know that I do not have cable television, and here in this fjord (Howe Sound, near Vancouver) I have limited opportunity for over-the-air TV broadcasts. Nor am I interested. Nevertheless, the local and current celebration is Olympic 2010 Mania. I have found that the best coverage of the games is not [...]

Posted by: Robert Ballantyne on Sunday, February 21st, 2010

It is not nice to try too fool mother Google

If you have a site that ranks well with Google, perhaps you can use your high ranking and provide links to other sites to increase their ratings.
That’s okay, especially if you think that visitors to your site would appreciate the link. That is more than okay, it helps build the web.
But if that link [...]

Posted by: Robert Ballantyne on Wednesday, December 5th, 2007

A rant to suggest designers stop using PDF files at web sites

I really wish folks would stop using PDF files as web pages on web sites.
I know that some folks don’t like having to look at a rant, so if you want to see it, you will have to open the next pain pane.

Technorati Tags: Portable Document Format

Posted by: Robert Ballantyne on Tuesday, December 4th, 2007

Strange: A Google search reports differently to Windows and Macintosh

This is a brand new blog, and we are still fiddling with the concept and design. So we have believed that no one is yet watching what we are doing. Well, yesterday we discovered that Google is now offering this blog to anyone searching. Deepak uses Windows and I use a Macintosh. We discovered that [...]

Posted by: Robert Ballantyne on Thursday, November 29th, 2007

Blog progress: Header Title & Philosophy

It was a sunny day. Instead of working at computers, we went for a high-altitude walk along the Howe Sound Crest Trail in Cypress Provincial Park — about 3,000 feet above West Vancouver, BC. There was a lovely mix of sun and cloud. Although there is no snow at sea-level; up there in the open [...]

Posted by: Robert Ballantyne on Sunday, November 25th, 2007

The first post in a new blog

Please click ABOUT in the header to discover what we will be trying to accomplish with this blog.
For the first few days most of what you will see are adjustments to the format.
Today, Deepak acquired the domain name, UsingIweb.com. Finding one that was easy-to-remember and seemed to suggest the direction of this project was our [...]

Posted by: Robert Ballantyne on Saturday, November 24th, 2007