http://foliovision.com Making the web work for you Fri, 09 May 2008 16:02:21 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Over the last month, the internet has been awash with stories of the fabled New York Times slow demise, as indicated by huge losses and impending layoffs. As the new Wall Street Journal hires, the New York Times fires. The decline in New York Times revenue and readership surprised me somewhat, ... http://foliovision.com/2008/04/29/nytimes-ad-revenue-unemployed-journalists/ For years, I've been on the Site Build It list. SBI is the creation of the rather annoyingly gushy Ken Evoy who never stops his carnival barker cries about his one-stop-site-creation tool.  Ken Evoy Pumping Site Sell Evoy's been at it since the bad old days when the internet was a mess ... http://foliovision.com/2008/04/28/sbi-versus-wordpress/ Just ran into a time consuming hiccup trying to work with a Clone CD Image. I hope the rather detailed explanation below will help someone else deal with a Clone CD Image faster on his Mac. I'd downloaded a 600 MB disk image to use with Parallels. The disk image came ... http://foliovision.com/2008/04/26/clone-cd-to-iso/ We've been properly labelling and tagging our images for years. Some of our websites get most of their visitors from Google Images. Google Images is the greatest SEO reserve left in the world. Chris Silver Smith of Netconcepts let the cat out of the bag in 2006 and told the whole ... http://foliovision.com/2008/03/26/seo-google-images/ Over at LifeHacker a fascinating discussion of monitor size and productivity. It caught my eye as I've recently moved from a 30" monitor to a 24" and 12" setup. Strangely I find I'm more productive on the second setup. In any case, people have all kinds of strange setups including one ... http://foliovision.com/2008/03/13/monitor-size/ I've been wondering about Wordpress plugin overhead for some time. How does one keep track of how much processor time and overhead any given plugin requires? We run fairly streamlined Wordpress installs at Foliovision with about 30 active plugins per site. A lot of them are one-trick ponies developed in-house so ... http://foliovision.com/2008/02/03/wordpress-plugin-overhead/ I've just been debugging display issues in the CSS in Knowlege Constructs FAQ-Tastic tonight. Firefox and Safari on Mac were a breeze to get right: just pull all the margins and padding off of ol.faq with a .nonumbers ol class that I'd already been using. It was especially easy to ... http://foliovision.com/2008/01/24/windows-text-editor/ I've just deployed a FAQ page onto one of the client websites using the Wordpress FAQ-Tastic plugin onto one of our client. I took some notes on the deployment and have written up a long FAQ-Tastic review. FAQ-Tastic  was written by John Godley for Knowledge Constructs. FAQ Tastic's default layout Executive Summary While ... http://foliovision.com/2008/01/16/faq-tastic-2/ Photoshop CS3 Save to GIF Droplet (Mac OS X version) If you use Photoshop CS3 and post screenshots to the web, this little droplet will save you a lot of trouble. For some reason it is impossible to convert ImageReady or previous Photoshop versions Droplets to Photoshop CS3. Installation and Usage Instructions: ... http://foliovision.com/2008/01/10/photoshop-cs3-droplet-save-as-gif/ All software documentation should be written by Germans. Here is a thorougly Teutonic guide to detoxing a Window's box. It could only be a friend's home computer. no right minded developer would ever let his computer get to this state. no competent sysadmin would ... http://foliovision.com/2008/01/10/windows-detox-autorun-system-tray/