Tag Archives: “website”
NYTimes.com Double Click Dictionary Search
I just discovered a feature on NYTimes.com that has apparently been there for well over a year. When I come across a difficult word, I usually want to look it up. So I double-click the word to highlight it quickly so I can copy-and-paste it. Well I just did that on an article at the New York Times website and it automatically opened a popup window with the definition of the word. I thought that was very nice functionality. It saved me time and it was exactly what I wanted to do - look up the word.
EZPass Website User Interface is Horrible
Man, who designs these crappy user interfaces for government websites? I’ve never seen a NY government website with a decent user interface. The EZPass account area is really bad. The design is really dated, the sections aren’t organized, and the links aren’t labelled well. It’s not intuitive at all - an interface is bad when you basically have to click every link to see where they go and hope you find what you’re looking for.
Upgrade to Wordpress 2.5.1
I’ve upgraded the site to the latest version of Wordpress (2.5.1). I also converted the collation on the MySQL tables to UTF-8. I haven’t noticed any problems so far but if anyone notices garbled text, please let me know or post a comment.
Upgrading to Wordpress 2.3
Sometime tonight or tomorrow I’ll be upgrading the site to the latest version of Wordpress so you may notice issues with website access during the upgrade. Chances are you won’t even notice, but this is just a heads up. I’m also making a couple of changes on the backend to lay the groundwork for a complete redesign sometime in the near future. I’ll also be recoding the XHTML/CSS and the Wordpress theme, changing the navigation, and moving all the static pages over to Wordpress Pages. There will be some visual changes, but nothing too dramatic.
My Spring Break 2006 Post
It’s a pretty quiet spring break this year. This time I just wanted to stay home, relax, and catch up on sleep. I also wanted to use the time to do some business related research. I don’t know why but at school there just seems to be so many distractions and interruptions. You try to set aside time for things but everything is so discontinuous.
Parallel Processing
I must say that the one thing Cornell has endowed me with is the ability to multitask. The ability to handle several different tasks and responsibilities at any given time. I’ve mentioned this before but my schedule this semester is pretty light. The one class, Electronic Commerce, that I thought would be interesting and informational turned out pretty disappointing. It’s a 600-level graduate course in the Cornell business school too. I’m not learning anything I didn’t already know and the course leans more towards the technical side and I was expecting a strategy related course.
New Site is Up
You can probably notice on your own but the new website is now up. This is officially the 7th version of PhilHuang.com. If you find any bugs or problems, let me know. My blog now uses Wordpress which is a million times better than Movable Type. Everything is XHTML 1.0 Transitional and extremely customizable.
The picture gallery is up for now but I’m going to be playing around with the template when I have time, so it won’t fully be up for about a week or so.
New Site Coming Soon
In the next few days, I will be making a new version of philhuang.com powered by Wordpress instead of Movable Type. This will allow for web standards comformity and more flexible back-end. There will be a new design as well (officially the 7th version of philhuang.com). So the entire site may become inaccessible sometime in the next few days.
Website Coming Along
The website for my web services business is really coming along. This is by far the most professional looking site I’ve ever developed. I’ve also made it Firefox and IE cross-browser compatible (the site looks identical in both browsers).
So things are rolling. I even developed a little “wizard” that will ask a prospective customer a few questions and determine which web hosting plan is best for them. This alone took me about 2 days because I had to map out an entire decision tree based on people’s possible answers and then put it into PHP code.