Lots of Web Goodies to Help Your Site become Web 2.0 Compliant

Boy where do I start. There are so many Internet technologies that it's hard to keep track of them all, so it's always good to be talking to people about web solutions. Over the last couple of days I've had a couple of good conversations with people that I must share.

Twitter Widgets. I guess this is the easiest one, but I found a widget on Twitter's web site that allows you to feed your "tweets" directly to a webpage. This is a great way of keeping your site up to date without really doing anything, as well as give new avenues of networking. Right now I have a working example on a site I'm working on, check it out here: http://thisherodesigns.com/ezBooks/index.html At the present time it has my own twitter feed tied into his site, but by the time the site is done, I'll have set-up a Twitter account for him and it will have his feed.

WebYep is a compact Web Content Management System. It's a very simple program that allows clients to edit their pages in a very simple way without a lot of coding. In fact it does have a Dreamweaver plug-in so in reality you don't have to do any program. The beauty of this is that people who don't know web programming have a simple method for updating their site with the simplicity of using a word program. WebYep has security features so not just anyone can log-in and make changes. You can find out more here: http://www.obdev.at/products/webyep/index.html.

Finally I found out about JW Players. It's basically a flash player, with optional skins so you can give it a custom look. It's used in a very similar way as YouTube without having to post the videos to YouTube, a better way of controlling your content and your audience. I like the ideal of that. Find out more here: http://www.longtailvideo.com/players/.

All good stuff to help your site become Web 2.0 compliant and give you an edge on your competition. Need to know more? Give me a call and I'll gladly discuss it with you.

Steve

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Back to Work

Well after a small hiatus for the holidays, I got back down to Turlock to work on Mator. Oh, first things first, for Christmas, Barb got me a set of stock mirrors for Mator. I did put one on and even brought my camera to take a picture, but unfortunately, I forgot to take a picture.

Anyways, after installing one of the mirrors I decided it was time to button up the front end. One of the kingpins had a bolt that was giving me problems originally so I never finished the install. So after some hammering and grinding, it's in place and finished. I still need my pitman arm from my brother, but after that, the front end will be ready for the alignment shop.

I also looked at the way Mator sits, as it is right now, the rear end is a little bit lower then the front end, and that's not going to fly. I've been looking into ways to lower the front end more, because as I say, "the lower, the better", but without getting into a lot of money and changing out what's been started, I'll probably have to raise the rear end to get the rake I want. However, I do believe I'll wait till the truck is closer to being done since not all of the weight is on the suspension so I raise the rear end as little as possible to get her to sit right. The attached photo is a photoshoped picture of what she should sit like with the rear end raised approx. 1.5 inches.

Now for the bad news. I had painted the motor, but at the time it was sitting on the ground so I didn't get a chance to paint the oil pan. So now that the motor is sitting in the truck I decided to pull the oil pan so I can paint it. Well when I drained the oil, the first thing to come out, was water, and as we all know, water is a bad thing to be in the motor. So Frank and I talked about it and thought it is probably just in need of new head gaskets. Hopefully since that is a fairly easy fix. I talked to my brother though and he thinks it is best to pull the motor and the heads and take a good look at the motor, just to be safe.

One step forward, two steps back.