On my last visit to Oxford, England, in March of last year, I finally took the long walk out Banbury Road to Wolvercote Cemetery to see the final resting place of J.R.R. Tolkien, who died at age 81 on September 2, 1973, fifty years ago today. To mark the occasion I’ve been looking through some … Read more
Today I learned that web publishers not authorizing any advertising systems on their sites should publish ads.txt files that include a one-line placeholder record rather than leaving the file empty. The IAB Technology Laboratory (Tech Lab) ads.txt Specification, currently the final ads.txt Specification Version 1.1 (August 2022) specifies on page 8 (PDF): 3.2.1 Files without … Read more
ABC Copywriting’s site, abccopywriting.com, really illustrates what differentiates “copywriting” from “writing” with examples, among them: Writing Multi-site networking and collaboration solution Copywriting Work together. Even when you’re apart. Galleries of web design inspiration The Landbook site (also styled “Land-book”), land-book.com, has seemingly endless galleries of web site (page) design inspiration and web component design inspiration. … Read more
Everyone says “good for you” if you tell them you’re taking a break or quitting [social media], but so few take the time to make their work accessible to those wanting to step away. Websites used to all be destinations.
Our garden is featured in yesterday’s Chicago Tribune—both online and in print: On a suburban street with smooth lawns and trimmed bushes, Martha Chiplis’ yard stands out. It’s not just the wildflowers: purple wild petunia, golden lanceleaf coreopsis, hot-pink Bush’s poppy mallow. It’s the lemon-yellow goldfinches that snack on the seeds, the fluffy bees that … Read more