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Monday, 4 February 2008
MS Outlook uses a “tracking option” which enables the sender of an email to determine when the recipient has actually read it. If, like me, you find this “feature” an intrusion of privacy, you can do something about it.
I simply use the following regular expression pattern in my spam filtering software:
REJECT = ^disposition-notification-to: .*
While someone requesting a “read receipt” doesn’t technically make it spam, the end result is good enough for me; their email just gets deleted before it gets into my inbox.
Thursday, 1 November 2007
I thought I’d share with you a PHP class I found useful lately. I had to take a comma-delimited text file and turn it into an XML text stream. With the ubiquity of XML these days, you might find it useful too, if you dabble in PHP software development.
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Sunday, 14 October 2007
Do you have a blog but need some ideas on how to make it work better? If so, make sure you read Tom Johnson’s fantastic usability tips for bloggers. Here’s the gist of what Tom’s saying:
- Pick a topic for your blog
- Encourage comments
- Make it easy to subscribe
- Include an “about” page
- Present your ideas visually
- Keep posts short and to the point
- Use subheadings for long posts
- Link abundantly
- Make headlines descriptive
- Archive by topic
- Include a list of related posts beneath each post
- Allow users to contact you offline
- Present your real viewpoint
- Write for your future employer
- Include a “top posts” section
- Provide an index
- Get your own URL and match it to your blog’s title
- Include a “recent posts” section in your sidebar
- Reward commenters for commenting
- Post often
If you’re not doing most of these already, now is the time to get started.
Monday, 8 October 2007
The folks at xhtml.com have put together a first-rate CSS reference guide with lots of useful examples and illustrations.
Tuesday, 2 October 2007
Does your organisation send out email newsletters to your customers or prospects? If so, here’s a tip.
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