I am sometimes tempted to not only put my Harley back on the road, but to turn it into a chopper or bobber at the same
time and therefore probably make myself a few inches sorter by riding a newly rigid-framed motorcycle down New Englands
horrific back roads. So tonight I was in that frame of mind again, and wandered into http://www.clubchopper.com/modules/Jig/index.php where I encountered this nice little list
of suppliers for frames and rolling kits and so forth, for Sportsters and Buells.
www.mcworx.com
www.bitterendchoppers.com
www.redneckengineering.com/
www.twobitchoppers.com/
www.wickedwillychoppers.com/
www.flyritechoppers.com/Pg/FRCMerch.html
www.atlasprecision.com
www.dirtysouthchoppers.com/
www.cycleonemanufacturing.com/
www.franticcustomcycles.com/
www.carolinacustomproducts.com/
www.bareknucklechoppers.com/frames.html
rowemachine.com/brochure.htm
www.paughco.com/
www.twistedchoppers.com
www.satmotorsports.com
www.brosmfg.com/page7.html
www.kansaskustom.com/Hardtail_Sections_Sportster.php
www.allenbros.com
www.customcycledevelopments.com
www.ledsledcustoms.com
http://www.tanksbytigman.com/frames-sportster.shtml
http://www.scootersperformance.com/frames.htm
http://nastybikes.com/
http://www.suckerpunchsallys.com/rollers_and_kits08.htm
http://www.l-l-choppers.com/borderli...Sportster2.htm
12-27-09
Cool Site of the Day: Instructables.com
Cool Site of the Day: Instructables.com
http://www.instructables.com/
How to make Stuff. Recipes, hardware, projects of all sorts. Almost as much fun as Wikipedia, if you like to make things
http://www.instructables.com/
How to make Stuff. Recipes, hardware, projects of all sorts. Almost as much fun as Wikipedia, if you like to make things
12-08-09
Content Management Systems Compared and Evaluated
Content Management Systems Compared and Evaluated
Here's a site I've been looking for: http://cmsreport.com/
This site gathers together reviews, news and opinions of CMS systems like Drupal, Joomla, PHP-Nuke, & etc.
I'd appreciate hearing about other sites with this kind of mission if anyone can point me to them. This site probably (hopefully?) isn't the biggest of its type but its been useful to me.
Here's a site I've been looking for: http://cmsreport.com/
This site gathers together reviews, news and opinions of CMS systems like Drupal, Joomla, PHP-Nuke, & etc.
I'd appreciate hearing about other sites with this kind of mission if anyone can point me to them. This site probably (hopefully?) isn't the biggest of its type but its been useful to me.
12-06-09
Cool Site: Bibliodyssey
Cool Site: Bibliodyssey
Books. Old books. Illustrations. Old, moldy books full of drawings. Yee-Haw! I love this kind of thing.
http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/
Books. Old books. Illustrations. Old, moldy books full of drawings. Yee-Haw! I love this kind of thing.
http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/
11-23-09
Cool Site: Edge.org
People smarter than some of us (especially me) at www.edge.org, using big words and talking about life, the universe, and stuff.
11-18-09
Cool Site: Online Journal
Cool Site: Online Journal
Progressive news and opinion. Lots of content and much of it well written.
Link: Online Journal
Rixter – Tue, 2006 – 09 – 26 08:39
Progressive news and opinion. Lots of content and much of it well written.
Link: Online Journal
Rixter – Tue, 2006 – 09 – 26 08:39
Search Engine Optimization & Web Useability
Search Engine Optimization & Web Useability
I found some great content at SEOmoz.org on search engines and graphic resolutions used by websurfers.
They have a large document on optimizing your website for search engines available in multiple HTML and Open Office formats here: http://www.seomoz.org/beginners.php
I'm surprised that such a high quality tutorial is available for free. That's one book I don't need to buy.
They have a large set of articles on the site making it worth checking out once in a while. Since I'm a Web Virgin at creating content, I benefited from this blog post that describes the screen resolutions used by web surfers. For example, while it's interesting that 86% of US web surfers are at 1024x768 or better, it's an even more interesting number if for some odd reason 25% of your prospective customers are in the unhappy 14% using the lower resolutions. The post is reproduced here:
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Screen Resolution Data
Posted by randfish randfish on Sun (6/25/06) at 9:16 PM to Web Design & Usability
Just a short post to note that OneStat has released figures about worldwide and country specific screen resolutions of Internet users. Here's the global averages:
1. 1024 x 768 56.15%
2. 1280 x 1024 15.79%
3. 800 x 600 12.04%
4. 1280 x 800 4.09%
5. 1152 x 864 3.90%
And data for just the US:
1. 1024 x 768 52.22%
2. 800 x 600 13.81%
3. 1280 x 1024 16.91%
4. 1280 x 800 5.05%
5. 1152 x 864 3.63%
In my opinion, it's still advisable to design to 760pixels wide (for fixed width layouts), as 12% of the world and 14% of the US are on these resolutions. Once those numbers drop below 5%, it will be more practical for websites to feature fixed layouts tailored to 1024 pixels.
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The original stats are posted here.
I found some great content at SEOmoz.org on search engines and graphic resolutions used by websurfers.
They have a large document on optimizing your website for search engines available in multiple HTML and Open Office formats here: http://www.seomoz.org/beginners.php
I'm surprised that such a high quality tutorial is available for free. That's one book I don't need to buy.
They have a large set of articles on the site making it worth checking out once in a while. Since I'm a Web Virgin at creating content, I benefited from this blog post that describes the screen resolutions used by web surfers. For example, while it's interesting that 86% of US web surfers are at 1024x768 or better, it's an even more interesting number if for some odd reason 25% of your prospective customers are in the unhappy 14% using the lower resolutions. The post is reproduced here:
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Screen Resolution Data
Posted by randfish randfish on Sun (6/25/06) at 9:16 PM to Web Design & Usability
Just a short post to note that OneStat has released figures about worldwide and country specific screen resolutions of Internet users. Here's the global averages:
1. 1024 x 768 56.15%
2. 1280 x 1024 15.79%
3. 800 x 600 12.04%
4. 1280 x 800 4.09%
5. 1152 x 864 3.90%
And data for just the US:
1. 1024 x 768 52.22%
2. 800 x 600 13.81%
3. 1280 x 1024 16.91%
4. 1280 x 800 5.05%
5. 1152 x 864 3.63%
In my opinion, it's still advisable to design to 760pixels wide (for fixed width layouts), as 12% of the world and 14% of the US are on these resolutions. Once those numbers drop below 5%, it will be more practical for websites to feature fixed layouts tailored to 1024 pixels.
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The original stats are posted here.
Cool Site: DownWithTyranny!
08-29-06
Funny Pictures
Funny Pictures
I like to sketch, and envy people who can really communicate well in that medium. Sometimes the artists I admire the most are the masters of minimalism. This guy is just a high school kid as far as I can tell, but he's worth checking out... if you don't mind stick figures. I think he's cool.
LINK: XKCD
B7.................................................A.......................
"She's got a sick little mind, and a stick figure face,
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but when she loves me like a monkey I forgive the human race."
- Rick Moore
Rixter – Tue, 2006 – 08 – 29 16:05
I like to sketch, and envy people who can really communicate well in that medium. Sometimes the artists I admire the most are the masters of minimalism. This guy is just a high school kid as far as I can tell, but he's worth checking out... if you don't mind stick figures. I think he's cool.
LINK: XKCD
B7.................................................A.......................
"She's got a sick little mind, and a stick figure face,
.......................E..........................................................................
but when she loves me like a monkey I forgive the human race."
- Rick Moore
Rixter – Tue, 2006 – 08 – 29 16:05
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