Ogremindes.net

This is my brand-new layout. Dubbed ‘Technological Fantasy’, it replaces the ‘Ogremindes.net Ultraclean’ theme that preceded it…

There are a number of database management systems (DBMS) suitable for web applications…

I’m starting to get a mess of links on my desktop. They’re all interesting, so I’ll whack ‘em up here.

Five simple steps to better typography…

I is for Internet Explorer
Internet Explorer is the web browser used by the vast majority of internet users…

G’day
Look, I know you people in the IT department don’t like to be disturbed , but the MD seems to think that you’re pretty well-informed…

In XHTML there are a number of tags which have been dubbed ‘bad’ for being purely presentational…

This site is for the online game Ronin MUD, I haven’t played the game, however I found the site to be very impressive. It has a very striking red and black colour scheme, using irregular lines and a large image to good effect. The text is mostly readable, the parts that overlap the main image are less so…

This video tutorial that came up on popular webdesign links can take you through the steps of installing wordpress, and covers the basic use of many of it’s features…

MAMP is the MacOSX equivalent of XAMPlite, the software some people in the class are using to ease PHP work somewhat by removing the need to upload the .php file after every change…

In his latest alertbox, usability guru Jacob Nielson recommends optimising web pages to be viewed on 1024×768 resolution, but make sure they scale adiquitely in lower resolutions…