I have finally gotten some photos up for you all to see: Australia 2007 Photos. They should be pretty up-to-date. Things are going great— we are having a wonderful time. Internet access is not as easy as I anticipated, so postings are kind of infrequent. :( Right now I have only a few minutes of access left, so I will sign out for now. … →

I’m going to skip the recap of 2006, and get right into what’s coming up in 2007. Brian and I are about to embark on a trip we have been planning for years— a great Australian adventure. We will be there from January 17 to February 28; six weeks of traveling, visiting colleagues, and seeing as much wildlife as humanly possible. We will be spending a couple of weeks in Melbourne while Brian does a research project on greater gliders, a week in Tasmania, a week in Queensland, some time in Canberra and Albury, and about a week in and...… →

Jeremy proposed setting up a web ring of Humanist web developers. Count me in. His microformats example on 24ways made me smile when I read it, and his blog post will have me and Brian grinning all day. … →

As John announced yesterday, I have taken over Bite Size Standards. We relaunched yesterday with a new format for article submissions and a streamlined editing process that will hopefully allow us to keep this resource running smoothly. Why I wanted to Bite Size Standards to continue I firmly believe that web standards are the foundation of successful web design and development. There is a whole new generation of folks entering into this field that need to learn best practices, to say nothing of the scores of sites you can find on the web that do not use standards. There is...… →

Karine has just posted an interview with me on this topic at collegewebeditor.com. Be sure to read the responses from the other university web folks interviewed for the series— some really good suggestions there. … →

Peter recently asked me if I prefer Textpattern (TXP) or ExpressionEngine (EE), and I thought this would make a good subject for a post to bring this blog back from oblivion. There is no short answer to that question. I love both CMSs, and lately have been choosing between them based on the project at hand. I recently switched HSU’s site from TXP to EE because the latest versions of TXP wouldn’t work with the configuration of our server. If TXP had still been an option I would have stuck with it. But partway through the project, I realized that...… →