Dale Lature: My Web Development

Tue, 01 Oct 2002 12:30:51 GMT

If anybody has seen my notice about my move to http://theoblogical.org , please let me know by commenting something here if you get the time. I want to see that somebody is getting this. And anybody who has tips on anything else I might do to notify people, I would appreciate them.

PVII Dreamweaver Extension Kits- Menu Magic DHTML Menu Builder

Thu, 26 Sep 2002 12:07:43 GMT

This site has very cool tabs for navigation, that use rollovers to display sublinks. Very cool. I must investigate

Nancy's BLOG

Thu, 12 Sep 2002 18:37:04 GMT

Another for the future blogroll for Dreamweaver Blogs

Dreamweaver MX / Fireworks MX Savvy by Christian Crumlish (Sybex, 2002)

Thu, 12 Sep 2002 18:35:15 GMT

another for the Web Development Page

Matt Brown's Dreamweaver Blog

Thu, 12 Sep 2002 18:34:29 GMT

Matt Brown's Dreamweaver Blog -- anybody found a tool to easily add other sites to a blogroll? I want to build blogrolls that deal with stuff in each of my categories, particularly ones like this one dealing with my work issues, most of which deal with using Dreamweaver on sites I am responsible for creating, fixing, adding functionality, etc.

Dreamweaver and Blog Templates

Thu, 12 Sep 2002 18:12:02 GMT

Blog Template Dreamweaver Tutorial Up at The Screen Savers Site. My taped appearance is this coming Monday, September 16, but TSS has already put the online tutorial component up at their site. The tutorial covers a little more ground than we were able to get to in my segment. On the air, I basically just show how to edit colors and fonts in an existing template, but the tutorial also addresses making custom templates, integrating a blog into an existing site design, and building a blog template from scratch. I'm just back from New York last night, so wading through a bit of a backlog in several arenas. [Christian Crumlish (xian): metablog]

Thu, 12 Sep 2002 11:58:53 GMT

Calendar Component Examples.

Some developers are having problems understanding how the Calendar component works (thread), so i put together a couple of simple examples that show how to use the component.

The first example shows how to work with a single selected date, and the second shows how to work with multiple selected dates.

You can download the files here.

If you know of any other examples online, please post them in the comments.

[mesh on MX]

Wed, 11 Sep 2002 00:30:14 GMT

DRK Example : DataGrid Component.

I have put up a simple example of the datagrid component that shows some of the more advanced features.

You can view the example here.

The datagrid component is avaliable as part of the Developer Resource Kit.

[mesh on MX]

Blogging as Strategy in Religious Publishing

Mon, 12 Aug 2002 23:20:07 GMT

It seems to me that as Macromedia has done, and InfoWorld has done, and also in ways that perhaps nooone has yet done, corporate Weblogs provide an effective format for telling a story. Seen in business terms, a story that is intended to sell the customer on the trustworthiness of their wares by exhibiting their expertise on the issues around which these wares explore (in the case of religious publishing, and Christian Church related publishing in particular, these wares are Chrsitian resources and Christian Ed resources).

The idea is to create an online content store that persuades by its expertise, and by exposing to the public the hard work and stategizing that happens around the publishing of a product. To clue in the customer base on how the resources are conceived and created and made available to the market is to give the customer an opportunity to be a contributor to the process. In the context of Religious Communities and/or Churches, this practice is not only good business, it is good theology as well.

This is a theological variation on the Cluetrain Manifesto theme. What excites people, what interests people, what drives people, is what retains people. The customers for whom a business provides a way for them to find things that interest them and impassion them will be not only paying customers, but a business's biggest evangelist.

Thu, 08 Aug 2002 18:58:24 GMT

I'm looking for help, tips, plugins or extensions for Dreamweaver MX that deal with creating "New Since you last visited" kinds of notifications and linking.

My main motivation is to have an automatic "notification" on the site's home page that alerts a logged in user that new posts have been added to the forums since they last visited. It could also serve to allow me to point to many other "recently added or updated" items by making use of a "lastvisited" date/time stamp entry for that user in the user table, and comparing that with the present systme date.

Tue, 06 Aug 2002 12:06:27 GMT

At 46, stories like these, and Kile earlier this year are always cause for pause. I'll always remember Porter hitting a 2-out Homerun to break up Mario Soto's 1-0 shutout and tie the game in St. Louis (the Reds eventually won the game anyway, which made me happy, but that was a pretty dramatic homerun. I think that was 1983, when I was living in Southeast Iowa, and mywife and I were visting St.Louis, to celebrate the first anniversary of of our first date and first meeting. This Sept.4, that will mark 20 years since that first meeting.

Just a few years before, I had gotten glasses for the first time, batted left handed, and my friends nicknamed me Darrell Porter. 50 years old is just too damn young to die. I wonder what it was that did it.

The Sports Network - Major League Baseball: "Kansas City, MO (Sports Network) - Former major league All-Star catcher Darrell Porter was found dead in a park in suburban Kansas City Monday. He was 50 years old. "

Wed, 31 Jul 2002 15:12:19 GMT

Finding cool litle tidbits and articles on using DWmx...

Multiple Repeat Regions on the Same Page at Dreamweaver FAQ.com

Mon, 29 Jul 2002 11:59:15 GMT

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Another good book to add to my list of read books (and one which I have re-read, and actually "introduced" me to Cluetrain: Futurize Your Enterprise by David Siegel, who also wrote "Creating Killer Web Sites")
The book is a great example of some real-life possibilities of The Cluetrain concepts put to work Siegel is a Web developer who began finding that companies who need Websites were all oft all too eager to make websites without caring who their customers were. A high recommend for anybody who read Cluetrain (or not) and wants to take the next step to begin asking how actual Website projects allow the company to participate in the conversation.

Mon, 29 Jul 2002 11:15:39 GMT

In search of David Siegel comments on Weblogging. I thought it woudl be interesting to see if the guy who pointed me to Clutrain, who pointed me to Christopher Locke, who wrote a book called Gonzo Marketing which sold me on learning Weblogging, is himself a writer of a weblog.

So I will find some web developer posts along the way since Siegel wrote Creating Killer Web Sites, and every developer under the sun probably mentions his book.

for instance:

webmutant: a weblog for web developers

Mon, 29 Jul 2002 00:05:47 GMT

Some interesting "house-church" type gathering stories, from the Alan Creech guy referred to by sara in the previous blog earlier today

midwest greenhouse | blog

Here's their scoop:

Our goal is to equip one another so that we can all carry out God's will for our lives in a more effective way through the creation of new and innovative faith communities.

The Greenhouse provides a supportive environment for Christian leaders who are choosing to function according to the ancient apostolic role of the New Testament. It is for leaders who aren't just interested in planting a church -- but rather, in churching a whole city and a region. It's for those who are willing to get their hands dirty in the soil of lost people in the harvest. It's for those wanting to make a globalocal impact from the ground up.

Fri, 26 Jul 2002 20:19:29 GMT

Cool video tutorials like this one , using the site author's movie/tutorial screen-capture thingy....see the site for details....but I've been looking at Dreamweaver MX extensions today, after finishing up some ASP coding at work today

DW MX Extensions dot com / Video tutorials

Fri, 26 Jul 2002 19:36:50 GMT

Cool Blog on Dreamweaver MX Wishes - Nancy's BLOG

Wed, 17 Jul 2002 22:31:23 GMT

My Balcony People is an old-style Web page cluster with some people who have influenced me. I'm fascinated with figuring out how to take advantage of the Weblog as it is provided for in Radio: With its Categories, I can have a "People" page, where I can expound about the ways different people have affected me. I still wish we had a way to do subcategories, or that I could find such an animal. Anyway, look at these people, and come back and comment. It's neat to be able to swap stories about how someone has changed your life, or how they have influenced you from afar.

The People section will host these links

Wed, 17 Jul 2002 11:35:44 GMT

I am a Web developer for a Religious Publisher. But don't let that scare you off (if things like that scare you), because I am not your typical religious person (whatever that is). I don't get offended by four letter words (since that would be VERY hypocritical), and I don't subscribe to a good portion of a lot of what you hear many Christians in the Media screaming about.

What I do like to explore and talk about is web development stuff. While I have a lot of ideas about how religious publishing and Web Development meet and relate to each other, that is something I will explore in the other (like Theoblogical) categories. Web Development is focused on the tools and my discoveries, problems, and hopefully, solutions.

The link to "Web Development" will lead you straight in to my frequent blogs on what I'm lookuing for, working on, and what I have found.

Wed, 17 Jul 2002 11:05:27 GMT

SportsFilter | All Baseball links and there's a Baseball Only link as well

Wed, 17 Jul 2002 03:45:06 GMT

Griffey is about a week away

Wed, 17 Jul 2002 03:43:33 GMT

Since Saturday, the Reds beat the Astros 8-3 to avoid the sweep and keep the Astros from pulling to within a half game of their hold on 2nd place. Since then , the Reds have won two in Milwaukee while the Stros lost two to the Pirates. Bu tthe Cardinals are still winning, so the Reds remain 3 and a half back.

But we all know this already. That's what ESPN is for.

Griffey is about a week away, (see Cincinnati Reds News) and we get to see whether he can make it the rest of the way, and somehow avoid and/or ignore the idiots in Cincinnati who have no respect for 461 homers (438 earlier than anybody in history....as well as earliest to 300 and 400).......and STILL, after these past two years of injury hell......at 32, with 8 years left on the contract, with 30 a year (not at all unrealistic unless you're like some of these idiots who say Griffey is washed up)....anyway, with 30 a year, that's 240 (add that to his 461, and that's 701. Throw a couple more 50 homer seasons in there.. that adds 40 to put him at 741, and maybe a 45 and a couple of 35's, that's 25 more , which is 766.) Now Bonds and Sammy are not yet done, and Sammyjust passed Griff, so it should be interesting. But somewhere between 700 and 775? Not too shabby. Will he do it? Who knows? I 'm all for shutting it all down for this year, and rehab it. Get it going strong. Keep working on it till next spring, and then be the Griffey of 97-99 for another 3 years in 2003, 4, and 5 and be at (461 + 158 = 619) at the end of 2005 at the age of 35 (he'll be 36 in November 2005).

No sweat. The Reds gotta have it. They bet a lot of future cash on it. I think he can do it. Just lay off him, fans. If he's as sensitive as he's shown, do we wanna make it hard? I don't think so.

Tue, 16 Jul 2002 23:20:41 GMT

It seems that Categories need to be further integrated into Radio. It seems the only thing they allow you to do is post separate bliogs to it and create a separate News feed/xml file. They DO NOT, as far as I have experienced it or understood as of yet: Thery don't allow you to send mail that posts to them......they don't give you an index.html page like the Stories list does, and they don't , as someone else here pointed out, have a separate stories list for each category.

Tue, 16 Jul 2002 21:13:47 GMT

Radio -- More Than a Blog Tool. Yeah, what Matt Mower said.
from [Blunt Force Trauma]

Sun, 14 Jul 2002 19:39:56 GMT

From a newly found blogger friend (he commented on a couple of my pleas for technical help posing as a blog:

Good Source for RSS News and Feeds. Jenny Levine at TSL points me to two great RSS info sources -- one that covers events and news in the growing RSS arena, and a new source for over 180 custom RSS feeds. [Blunt Force Trauma]