Charlie Morris's Page

http://www.commoncraft.com/simple-index-card-says-it-all

Thought some of ya'll might appreciate the pithy point of this card. Next time I'm in front of a whiteboard trying to explain why a page with 800 links on it isn't very easy to use I'm going to draw this graph! :)

Love these nuance kind of questions about HTML and browsers. Recently I got a request from a faculty about any "trick" to make Firefox display alt attributes in images as tooltips. This is the default behavior for IE6,7 but no other browser. I'll not re-write the article that informed my response to this faculty, but there's a fantastic discussion about all this on 456 Berea St.

Basically, h… Continue

Thought I'd add a post to my blog here seeing as how I haven't in a while. I just added a new module in Drupal today - the FAQ module. It's pretty cool, basically provides input forms for adding new FAQs and output pages for styling. See it live here: http://cnr.ncsu.edu/it_services/.

I also added another module, FAQ Ask, that allows you to associate an expert with a given category of FAQs. This module th… Continue

CNR IITS

This is a soft launch of our new, one and only, Drupal site at CNR. I'm using to serve out basic, boring, static HTML for the most part - although the news pages are hooked into TownCrier. We'll use it for some other more dynamic features and modules like blogs and scheduling, but for now it's pretty vanilla. The WRAP piece is working great and GuardDog is doing a great job complimentin… Continue

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8Pl1H0dIXE

Kind of interesting, wonder what implications this might have on webmasters - just more reason to follow good metadata standards I 'spose.