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The Web 2.1 for Idiots!

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Welcome to the humble blog for Idiots, its almost like Web 2.1 for Dummies. EXCEPT its more blunt and half as much sodium.

I own various web-sites here and there and I'll be bloging about the extraneous task of making them from not-so-great to fantastic (in 3 easy years.) Enjoy!
Design Specific information about the Design and Styles of the various web sites, or how to improve your design.
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Planning Ahead

Posted July 25th, 2008 at 11:51 AM by TheSealPortalTeam
Updated July 25th, 2008 at 11:56 AM by TheSealPortalTeam
Whenever you build a website or design one most people get dreams of how far there website should go. Those are great things to have in mind when coding or designing that site.

Open up Your Styles

Here's why. Over hundreds of hand written websites (code not purchased by application or open source project) started of with one simple idea, and accomplished that idea for one person. For instance WebMD, started as just medical information for a handful of select clients, but...
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Boonex and Scary PHP re-writes

Posted April 14th, 2008 at 09:17 AM by TheSealPortalTeam
Updated April 18th, 2008 at 10:58 AM by TheSealPortalTeam
If you ever owned or wished to operate a Boonex Social Network, don't. Unless you want to dive into code and fix a few things.

The first things first, the ugly home page.
They (boonex, creates of dolphin community) say that they have a "nice frontpage", for as long as you don't wish to have an alternative style or any revenue what-so-ever. There frontpage isn't the best but its not the worst, my ELGG frontpage was the worst, and I'll classify MySpace (my daring competitor
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ELGG - The worlds ugliest Open Social Network

Posted March 7th, 2008 at 11:53 AM by TheSealPortalTeam
Updated May 16th, 2008 at 09:24 AM by TheSealPortalTeam
Okay, I was opening a Social Network site, and decided to use ELGG. Its open source and a lot of people are using it for production. So I thought why not use it.

Here are good reasons not to use the default installation:
  • The CSS and Layout is disgusting to say the least.
  • The code barely validates.
  • You have this odd tool bar on top of everything.
  • All the links are on-top of each other.
Here is what I had to do to make my site look New and Improved!
  • I created a layout
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Mobile Pages? If your page Validates you might not need extra work!

Posted February 7th, 2008 at 09:41 AM by TheSealPortalTeam
Updated February 7th, 2008 at 10:12 AM by TheSealPortalTeam
So today I decided to check all the functions of this new firorFox add-on. One of the functions renders mobile pages, it takes sites and shows you what it would look like in mobile. So I did the portal.

It looks like, in design I'll have no more restructuring or reprogramming for the portal. Since I use master pages and all my master pages are perfect XHTML Transitional, has no JavaScript, and uses a few images, it was completely compatible with mobile systems. Get this it looks like...
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