Wordpress 2.5 was released today and we decided to do an upgrade to see how the upgrade process worked. Wordpress is used by thousands of people online and with its simplicity and straightforwardness we assumed the upgrade process would be the same.
We were right, upgrade was a snap, backup, disable plugins, upload, run script, enable [...]

No title, not needed this week.

Creating accessible charts using canvas and jQuery | Filament Group, Inc.
Adobe Photoshop Express Launches
Good UI Design: Make It Easy, Show Me You Care - ReadWriteWeb
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Grocery List for Smart Eating at Work? [Ask The Readers]
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I know a lot of people are dying to learn Flash, but feel intimidated by the program, so I decided to do an introductory level workshop going over Flash in general and a couple very basic tutorials. Our marketing department has been doing these “crossover” type workshops now for over a month and I [...]

Quite a few links this week with help as the main theme. At our Some Assembly Required workshop this week we presented how we can help to the university community, ironically the help theme carried over to the online world.
All great links but as always the last one is most inspiring. Enjoy.

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Last week was spring break here at Wayne State. We had a significant drop in visitors to the main wayne.edu site. Below is the graph in green the previous week while in blue the spring break week. This seemed normal at first glance since less students were on campus to login at the library where [...]

We are proud to announce you can now subscribe to any calendar via iCal or save any individual event in iCal format. This will allow anyone to keep up with university events without having to check site every day. Just subscribe to a category of event you are interested in or a specific calendar.
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Happy PI day everyone. Trying something new this week, we added a newsletter update. If you would like to get updates about all the posts including the Friday Links via email just enter your email into the newsletter signup at the bottom of the post. Otherwise RSS works great too.
Without further delay here are this [...]

With a nice break in the middle of the week to enjoy the snow, a nice list of links to keep up the momentum, enjoy the snow below.

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In a surprise move yesterday Microsoft announced it has changed its position on the default rendering engine of IE8 from IE7 rendering to the bleeding edge standards mode. This is a HUGE win for web developers across the world, the average user and everyone with a disability.
Making the standards mode “standard” means the web will [...]