Warmest Greetings,
:: Thursday, April 17, 2003 ::
Warning! I just received word that a spam email with the subject "Your Google Rankings" contains the mmvirus (worm). Kill it on sight. Do not open it!
Part Three in my series, "Being Tops with Your Users and the Search Engines" has hit the Internet waves via Jill Whalen's Advisor newsletter sent yesterday. You can read it in all its glory here >>> Obtaining User Feedback
Project management is a highly valued, though not often welcome, website or software development activity. Support and resources for PM are available at the Center for Business Practices.
For PM professionals, this may be quite helpful >>>Project Management Benchmarking Consortium . Quote: "PM Solutions' research arm, The Center for Business Practices (CBP), is making its resources available directly to organizations through its new Project Management Benchmarking Consortium. The Project Management Benchmarking Consortium is a professional membership program designed to provide organizations with the information they need to identify, understand, and adapt best practices to improve their project management performance."
The 3-Click Rule dance step is analyzed by Josh Porter at UIE.com. See an excellent review of this standard user design guideline in >>> Testing the Three-Click Rule - "After hearing about the rule for many years and having it as a requirement in some client projects, we decided to find out if the rule was true."
"Any company that starts blogging today is a pioneer." >>>The B2B Power of Blogs . So there.
She ain't no boob. >>> What They Teach in College These Days
A ticket to ride...or if you run a music oriented website, this could be interesting>>>New Program Assists Visitors in Finding Tickets to Events Anywhere in the World offered by ConcertTickets.com.
Hey. When is the next Enigma CD coming out anyway and whatever happened to Enya? I need more working music.
Will be on holiday after today. See you next week. If you love me, you'll email me. >>> Love Letters. and finally,
Thanks to the gentleman who emailed to tell me my website testing page wasn't loading in Netscape, and for not making me feel too terribly embarressed about that!
Cheers,
Calamity Kim
- one of those Blog pioneers
:: posted by Kimberly Krause on 4/17/2003 08:34:03 AM
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:: Wednesday, April 16, 2003 ::
Who has time for news?
I worked all day and never had time to find stuff to gab about. I know you all miss me when I'm not here.
While I work my email is always open and dinging me. Since I get every post sent to Cre8asiteForums (so I can zap spam on sight) I'm dinged a lot. If you love blogs, one of our guests wants to talk to you >>> Calling all Blogsters!
:: posted by Kimberly Krause on 4/16/2003 07:41:48 PM
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:: Tuesday, April 15, 2003 ::
If you didn't catch the second part of my article series, "Being Tops with Your Users and the Search Engines, Part Two", Robert Clough has posted it here >>> Getting Organized With Usability Checklists
LookSmart may actually redeem itself from past dumb ideas with Grub, a free crawler. You may like this >>> Help LookSmart Crawl the Web
Quote: "If you own or operate your own web site, Grub will allow you to run a "local" crawl of your site every night. This is a great way to ensure that all of the content on your site gets crawled."
:: posted by Kimberly Krause on 4/15/2003 11:18:26 AM
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:: Monday, April 14, 2003 ::
I knew that eventually the skinny character with long legs in the Cre8pc logo whose head is turned back looking over his shoulder while running forward would come to have some meaning someday.
It means, "Cover Your Assets". Last Friday afternoon the server which hosts Cre8asiteForums was hacked into. They managed to deface nearly every hosted site. By some bit of luck I happened to be in the forum, left it, returned immediately because I forgot something and WHAMMO!, the whole forum was defaced with a huge image which is the hacker's calling card. I immediately called our host and they fixed the forum, but the fate of the other websites who were HTML-based was not as favorable. Everything had to be moved to a new server while the hacked server was repaired. That meant that for about 24 hours all the websites, and the forum too, was down.
I've learned that hackers take great pride in their "work" and some websites will show off their handiwork, glorifying them further. I learned that if I want to pursue the group who attacked, it would cost a minimum of $10,000 and rarely are they caught and prosecuted, so the feeling is "Why bother?"
So, cover your butt. Make backups of everything. Change passwords often. Rotate IP addresses. Make sure directories are protected, your software is up to date on all patches and that your host has up to date server software as well. Hackers will exploit every known bug just to let you know you haven't protected yourself. They feel it's their right to do so and to make their point very clear (that they consider you an idiot), they'll deface your site, or worse.
I just finished writing part 3 of my article series which is running in Jill Whalen's Advisor newsletter. It covers gathering information about your website users before, during and after the website build. Seems I'm not the only one trying to get across this message...>>> Paper Prototyping: Getting User Data Before You Code. You can read what I have to say in this Wednesday's Advisor
Bored? Need inspiration? Wondering what to try next in web design? See the latest winners at the trendy FavoriteWebSiteAwards.com
Have you seen Jennifer Lopez's new video for "I'm Glad"? It's a recreation of the movie "Flashdance", only Lopez plays the Jennifer Beals part. Ok, so Lopez has on the wrong shoes in the dance test scene, but they got most everything else right. I should know. I wanted to be a dancer and watched that movie 347 times.
That's a wrap.
:: posted by Kimberly Krause on 4/14/2003 01:43:46 PM
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