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Two easy ways to build static websites (or not so static)

This blog is devoted (mostly) to cutting edge Web and media technology.  Today and in the next posting, we will look at two website development tools that I have found surprisingly powerful, given their simplicity and elegance.

One of them is WordPress, which can be run on Macs, WIndows...

The Challenge of Complex Media in a Relational World, Part 1

Relational databases: the dominant technology. Relational database management systems, such as MySQL, Oracle, MS SQL Server, DB2, and Postgresql, support the relational model. A database is broken up into tables, and each table consists of rows. Each row is a series of values. ...

Making information management scale: leveraging metadata on the new Web

Previous postings of this blog. This blog is dedicated to advanced Web development tools and concepts. Previous blog postings have focused on the emerging

The Semantic Web: revealing hidden data.

The Hidden Web.

The Semantic Web - a primary topic of this continuing blog series - will help us search the web with greater ease. One of...

Full Text searching: cleaver heuristics for managing large web-based document collections.

There is an explosion of technology for supporting sophisticated forms of media on websites and in web applications. In our continuing series on