Friday, March 09, 2007

Displaying Poetry on the Web

A couple of times recently this has presented a problem and an interesting challenge.

Poets create their work with a view to wanting a particular layout of the words. Some may prefer the lines centred and others left aligned. Some poets may want their poems displayed with the wrapped line (where it is a long line) centred or right aligned.

So what would be the best way to display poems? What have others done to resolve this complex issue?

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Friday, February 16, 2007

Bringing PHP and XML together

We must be grateful to Kerri Hicks for this article (PHP and XML Sitting in a Tree) over at Digital Web

Kerry points out that with PHP 5 we can use a new function called SimpleXML that makes it very easy to extract data from an XML file and display on a web page. She has some interesting examples including getting book data from the ISBN database. Just one problem - you must have PHP5. Right now I don’t have this here, so time to get in touch with my hosts!

Sourced at Digital Web: Latest Articles

Tuesday, February 13, 2007

Project Collaboration

I gave a presentation yesterday on using online tools to manage projects and collaborate effectively. The arrival of Web 2.0 and web applications, means that there are now an amazing number of free tools available to manage projects online.

Presentation is here.

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Sunday, February 11, 2007

WEB of Words

We have come to think of the WEB as the miracle of the Internet.

But E.B. White, knew that it is nature’s own miracle. The spider that weaves her web, does so with skill and dexterity, and as pointed out in Charlotte’s Web, no one taught her - it just came naturally.

Yes, we just saw the film! Great enjoyment all round and how clever are those computer generated images of Charlotte the spider weaving the words into her web - RADIANT - was my favorite. As radiant as the sunset.

Sunday, February 04, 2007

Want to be part of a collaborative authored project?  Penguin is asking for you.

Penguin is experimenting with a group authored book based on the web technology behind wikipedia.

Via Yahoo News.

Thanks to Dear Author.Com