http://www.jungle.ca Soup to nuts communications. I do it all. hourly 1 2002-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://www.jungle.ca http://www.jungle.ca/images/BE/BE_logo-100x34.png http://www.jungle.ca/index.php/thework/bilingualemaillesseffective No one speaks bilingual and they'd prefer not to read in email either. Language-of-choice emails got a 20 or 21 per cent higher open rate and a 16 per cent higher click rate than bilingual messages with the same content. They're more likely to be forwarded and less likely to be the subject of a spam complaint. http://www.jungle.ca/index.php/thework/aotbl I'm pleased to announce the launch of a new site: altarofthebottomline.com. The site promotes At the Altar of the Bottom Line, a book and CD workplace ethnography project by Tom Juravich that chronicles work in the George Bush era. http://www.jungle.ca/index.php/news/calmworkshops In May I lead two workshops at the Canadian Association of Labour Media conference in Saskatoon. Web design and writing for the web. The foregoing are links to the slide show and presentation notes done up as a single XHTML compliant page using S5, Eric Meyer's brilliant standards bases slide show system. http://www.jungle.ca/index.php/news/smoothwall I'm back to using a big bad power-sucking computer with a bunch of hangers-on boxes for my routing solution. I feel much more confident now, but a bit bad about the extra wattage. http://www.jungle.ca/index.php/thework/logoaslinktohome Do people actually know that on most sites, the logo is a link to the site's home page? http://www.jungle.ca/index.php/news/Open_Office_truly_co I just created a word processing document in Open Office 3, saved it in MS Word (dot doc) format and sent it off to the person who's going to handle formatting and whatnot. It's still a beta but I can now see the day when I can delete that monstrosity that is MS Office from my hard disk. http://www.jungle.ca/index.php/news/drupaltowordpressmigration I am now one website away from never having to look at the underside of a Drupal website ever again. I'm excited. But a bit... tired. This is an explanation of how I migrated from Drupal 5.7 to Wordpress 2.5. http://www.jungle.ca/index.php/news/domainsatcostcasubdomainhijacks This is disappointing. The domain name registrar I use - and have been telling friends and clients to use - is one of those ones that does subdomain hijacking. http://www.jungle.ca/index.php/thework/Interarchy_9_please_ I have been using this file transfer client since it was in version 1.x. The latest re-release is a total disaster. It's just wasted an hour of my life. Don't install it, whatever you do. At least not until this purported 9.01 gets released. http://www.jungle.ca/index.php/news/Tangled_in_Our_Dream I've put together a website for Ottawa singer-songwriter Teresa Healy and her musical and life partner Tom Juravich for their recently-launched CD, Tangled in Our Dreams. http://www.jungle.ca/index.php/news/Old_begets_new I have installed a new server and migrated everything over to it. That feeling of accomplishment, smug satisfaction and self-congratulatory euphoria is washing over me. http://www.jungle.ca/index.php/thework/See_Its_not_just_me_ I gave a workshop on web writing to a group of communications professionals all of whom had been in the biz since before ever there was an internet. (Mind you so have I, but never mind). When I told them that all their pithy, witty, teasing headlines had to go, the workshop went down hill. But now, even a newspaper - The New York Times - is saying writing has to change. http://www.jungle.ca/index.php/news/April_showers_bring_ Bell Canada was by Saturday to fix my phone line, which has cleared up the connectivity problems I was experiencing on Friday and Saturday. http://www.jungle.ca/index.php/news/miningwatchlaunched Miningwatch Canada has relaunched its highly successful website using the Back End content management system with design and templates by yours truly. http://www.jungle.ca/index.php/news/byebyegeeklog These portal-esque applications like PHPNuke, PostNuke, Geeklog etc etc certainly had their day. But it was time to move on. Search the archives of Jungle query http://www.jungle.ca/search.php