In the process of validating Css and XHTML 1.0 Transitional for my website:

HTML Validator

Css Validator

This powerpoint presentation was done for a conference which took place in Braga, Portugal. It’s in Portuguese but I think it’s pretty self-explanatory. I’ll be posting the pdf soon and eventually the translation to English.

Summary: In the last years one has seen a remarkable race in the world of search engines with Google controlling the market and others just trying to keep up. Nonetheless, the attempt at improving these systems dates back to the 40s. Search engines index the information that is available on the Internet to make it more accessible. By giving us access to the information, they are extending some of its power to the user. They organize the digital information from the most relevant to the least relevant using, for that purpose, seriation criteria. It is, therefore, necessary to develop searching strategies for us to create knowledge. If we compare search engines with our own cognition, we can see that there are similarities. This cognitive parallelism makes us reflect about the future of search engines. Will they, eventually, be able to think?

I’m not an Internet Explorer user. Period! Unfortunately, there are still a lot of people who are… a few friends told me that my website wasn’t displaying correctly in their Internet Explorer 7:

Apparently both Internet Explorer 7 and 8 don’t read .ico files as images within the webpage. They just can’t recognize them which is fine I guess.

The problem was dealing with divs and floats… Finally managed to get my website to display correctly in Chrome, Opera, Safari, IE7, IE8 and Firefox. There are still some quirks to solve though…

I started doing some screencasts. So far I only have screencasts about photoshop. If you’d like anything screencasted, just say so and I’ll get back to you.

Screencasts

It’s taking longer than I thought to integrate wordpress into my website… here’s a list of websites that can help you accomplish that task:

Wordpress integration
Seamlessly integrating a blog into your non blog website

My website is hosted on webhostgiant.com and they have a platform where people can decide which web applications to install on their websites.


Moodle is one of those applications and it gets installed automatically through their platform. I don’t really appreciate moodle’s clumsy, complicated looking interface so I came to the conclusion that I would be better off choosing a simpler LMS like Dokeos.
Unfortunately installing it was not hassle free. It sounded simple enough but you have to fiddle around with folder and file permissions. That wasn’t the problem though. The minute I finished installing it and went to the home page of the application the only thing I got was a blank screen. Tried to find information in forums that would explain that but nothing seemed to do the trick. Fortunately the guys at webhostgiant.com found the problem and solved it for me. This was part of the email they sent me:

Dokeos couldn't include HTML/Table.php file and wrote to error_log the following messages:
[Tue Jun 23 20:26:02 2009] [error] [client 85.245.201.61] PHP Fatal error: require_once() [<< a href='function.require' >>function.require]:
Failed opening required ‘HTML/Table.php’ (include_path=’.:/usr/lib/php/library/’) in /var/www/vhosts/tiagotavares.eu/httpdocs/colegioescravas/
elearning/main/inc/lib/sortabletable.class.php on line 24
I’ve added /var/www/vhosts/tiagotavares.eu/httpdocs/colegioescravas/
elearning/main/inc/lib/pear/ directory to include_path.