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Mar 09 2007 at 9:12pm

Great Websites: EDGE of Existence

EDGE of Existence is another example of a great website. Why is this site great? It is cleanly designed and has a very elegant feel. I think that some have taken the clean white look a little too far, but this site balances it well with deep colour accents. The colour choice suits the topic and coordinates with the animal photos.

Speaking of the photos, they are high quality and very engaging. I was immediately drawn to the slideshow on the home page. This is an example of user engagement on an emotional level - you feel the mission of the site when you look at those photos. You can’t help but become involved.

Announcing A Padded Cell: the new content site from The Webmaster Forums

It’s ready! We’ve finally got the site in good enough shape for public viewing. I meant to post about this a week ago but so many things have come up that I wasn’t able to finish the post! So here it is:

A Padded Cell

All Web Content Should be Dated

This topic came up in no less than three independent conversations yesterday, beginning with GeoffreyF67′s post at SEOmoz proposing that dates be removed from blog posts. As many of the commenters pointed out, there are a lot of problems with this and I think his logic was pretty fuzzy to begin with.

I find it interesting that many of the commenters on that post feel that articles (different from blog posts) should not be dated. This is something I definitely disagree with. How many times have you come across content through a search and wondered when it was posted?

PHP Month of Bugs: What does it mean for the rest of us?

Stefan Esser, founder of both the PHP Security Response Team and Hardened-PHP Project, has announced that he’s going to release over 31 bugs into the public domain during the month of March. He has started posting them, with three bugs already released on the site dedicated to the project. There has been some buzz in php-land about this, but I haven’t heard much outside of that.

So what does it mean for the rest of us? Anything? Abhi says that there are more likely to be problems with poorly coded PHP applications or improper server configuration. However, I think it’s a good idea for those of us running PHP applications to at least know that this is happening. Make sure you run a backup and keep an eye out for any security upgrades over the next month or so