Sitevista is currently beta testing and I was lucky enough to get an invite. You can test your site against a wide range of browsers, resolutions and colour depths. Very handy! More information here … [Read more...] about New Browser check site
Accessibility and Government / Official Sites
I would have thought that accessibility would have been a primary concern of any sites run by Government departments, however the CRO's "security" feature on the company search form seems to make a complete mockery of that. I am a normal sighted person. I do wear glasses, but I am far from blind. However, I have serious issues making out what the security code is on the CRO … [Read more...] about Accessibility and Government / Official Sites
SpamAssassin 3.0.4 released
An updated version of SA was released earlier today. There are some bug fixes plus the addition of the SURBL JP DNSBL Download it from your local mirror Thing … [Read more...] about SpamAssassin 3.0.4 released
Google aids indexing?
Google has released a new tool/project to aid in the indexing of sites. According to one of their engineers: "It's a beta "ecosystem" that may help webmasters with two current challenges: keeping Google informed about all of your new web pages or updates, and increasing the coverage of your web pages in the Google index." They're calling it Google Sitemap Protocol (GSP) :) The … [Read more...] about Google aids indexing?
Debian Sarge Released
Well all the waiting is over. The latest stable version of Debian, codenamed Sarge, has finally been released: http://ftp.debian.org/dists/stable/Release - read the version info at the top of the file (nicely spotted davew) There's a couple of mentions over on Planet Debian, but nothing major. I updated my apt sources last week in preparation for the final release, so that's … [Read more...] about Debian Sarge Released