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    Lester Smith works days as a writer & technologist for Sebranek Inc., an educational publisher in Wisconsin. In his spare time, he designs games, writes poetry & fiction, codes Web stuff, publishes other writers via Popcorn Press, & dreams of being the first Android Poet Laureate of Mars.

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    Why Twitter?

    Friday, August 15th, 2008

    If you haven’t given Twitter a look, I’d definitely recommend it. It’s a free Web application with transformative potential. If you have given Twitter a look, and weren’t impressed, or just didn’t get it, I’d recommend trying it again. Consider this quote from Al Tompkins of The Poynter Institute: “I have hated Twitter for more more »

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    URI Valet

    Friday, July 18th, 2008

    Hey, Web coders! For performance testing it’s hard to beat URIValet.com. Not only does it show crunchy stuff like “Server Header Details,” it also lists your download times across the board of connections from 56k to 6 Mbps, displays interactive charts of your page elements, lists your internal and external links (in separate tables), and more »

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    Link Padding

    Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008

    I just learned a great little Web coding concept called “link padding.” The idea applies mainly to adjacent menu items. Instead of letting the mouseover area default to the bare text of a link, with a blank space between items, text padding uses CSS to space out the items, which means there’s a larger mouseover more »

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