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Latest Sites – January-26-2006
January 26th, 2006 | 
Author: Another web site complete:
This one is for my Fiance’ Shannon. I can’t take all the credit for this web site though. I showed her how to use FireworksMX and she made most of the graphics. I’ve turned it into a web site. I’ll be adding photo galleries on a continual basis I suspect.
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Another IE & “Feature” that does bad things
It seems that Microsoft is always looking for the easy fix to big design flaws. Now usually I’m all for the easy fix, but if it does more harm than good, it’s certainly time to put some extra effort into fixing the design flaw. This usually saves all kinds of problems down the road.
Microsoft seems to be extras at making “features” that do more harm than good too. Sometimes it’s hard to imagine why they put so much effort into such a bad idea. For instance in Win XP you were no longer able to make any folder you wanted “private”, only the ones that were under certain users profiles and in certain spots. Another example, with WinXP whenever you copy a folder from one disc to your hard disc, or one hard disc to another, it automatically becomes a “Read-only” folder that can’t be deleted or renamed. These were “features” according to Microsoft.
We’ve all been hearing about the mostly bad changes due to come out in IE 7. This latest one is going to screw up a lot of newbies and cause more support tickets for any web sites with log ins. The new “delete browsing history” feature under the “tools†menu wills not only clear the history, but also:
- the cache
- all cookies
- all saved passwords
- all saved form data
- all e-mail attachments in Outlook Express
Imagine all the new messages in your inbox reading “Please help, can’t log-in” and “I can’t remember which e-mail address I signed up with?” and “Why doesn’t your web site remember me?”
There’s a new Spambot in town
There’s a new spambot in townm and it’s very tough to detect wether it’s been browsing your server because it’s actions imitate real humans so well.
But good webmasters know that you can just assume that spambots will visit all your site and to break up e-mail addreses links with ascii code so the spambots can’t read them.
Seems the press has dubbed it the “Covert Crawler“