Beauty Without Form

“Beautiful CSS rich sites with invalid, incorrect or non-semantic markup and incorrect or missing DocTypes”

I love trawling the web, wading through a lot of the well known – and some not so well known – CSS gallery sites such as cssmania.com looking for inspiration, or just admiring the view. For a relatively ‘artistically challenged’ techie like myself these sites are an important source of inspiration and creativity. A bit like webdesign porn!

Domain Tasting – In All But Name

Domain tasting is the practice of registering an expired domain on release into the available domain pool in order to monitor its natural traffic. In cases of poor traffic the domain is released before the invoice is due to be paid. The domain has been ‘tasted’. It’s prevalent in the .com community.

QinetiX APM – Affiliate Product Marketing

David over at affiliate-stores has mentioned the separation of Affilistore Enhanced from AffiliStore here. The two products have diverged significantly since the fork at AffiliStore 2.01. Steve at AffiliStore has plans for a new AffiliStore Licenced Product. As such we have agreed a separation of the two. Affilistore Enhanced 2.6 will be rebranded as QinetiX APM.

The changing face of the web

I’m in the process of moving over to a new development laptop – it’s only taken a year to get round to it, but that’s another story to do with IE6 & Vista/XP support. As part of this is tidying up over 5 years of accumulated IE favourites, some of which were inherited from a previous desktop.