The following are just some notes about our Fedora installation. Some of this information is not easily given to you or through the system administration tools. Unless you are interested in running linux, you most likely will not be interested in this entry.
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For some reason, shortly after I typed this entry, MovableType was visited by the entry-eating-monster and it disappeared from the site. Seriously, it was there and then it was gone – even from the database.
In any case, I just wanted to get back to my blog since it had been a while since I last visited it. One would argue that I completely abandon this site when this much time goes by without an entry and I would argue completely the opposite. It is these days when I constantly try to find topics that I can bring up here. Usually I can come up with something but then something will get in the way and all of those ideas disappear into the unknown…
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In a few minutes I will be going to a PBS broadcast covering accessibility of online courses. The program is being produced by the University of Maryland University College and sponsored at our campus by a couple of departments involved with online education. There has been a lot of talk about web accessibility and with a move toward standards-based designs; it has become much easier to open the online doors to those with disabilities.
During my time working for a corporation in Amarillo, I would come across the different sites for some of our clients. These clients ranged in size from small to humongous and only in some cases the quality of their online presence would match their size. I would be mostly surprised by those clients that were doing a lot of business with said company but once you would visit their website, you would not believe they were a million dollar company even if you could see their accounting books.
I have seen several cases where a "client" spends a large amount of money to conduct their daily operations. In some cases, an online presence is not essential for their industry and the reason behind their website is mostly because their competitor has a one and so they need one as well. Situation like these end up with sites that are not successful from the any possible point of view (business, accessibility, designing, etc.)
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I was told to:
From Java Server Pages by Hans Bergsten.
In a simple one-page application, such as an online bulletin board, you don’t need to be overly concerned about the design of this piece of code; all logic can be lumped together in a single program.