Archive for March, 2006

Taking websites to the next level

Friday, March 24th, 2006

We have been feeling constant and increased pressure to take our website development to the next level. Our customers and visitors to their websites expect the site to remember who they are and verify the forms they complete are filled in correctly and mistakes corrected without reentry of data. They also expect a professional look and feel. (Whatever that means.)

We have been building static sites with Dreamweaver. However, you probably noticed this part of Driven by Curiosity is done with Wordpress. We are finding the freedom to write first and organize/catagorize later is wonderful. In fact I started to write this on the static pages of the website and got to frustrated to continue.

I find the Wordpress approach especially friendly when I have a mass of information about which I want to write, but don’t yet have it completely organized in my mind. On this part of the site I can write a series of articles which are only loosely related and then add the categories that provide structure later.

I need to explore this further.

Quotations about curiosity

Friday, March 24th, 2006

I keep six honest serving-men,
They taught me all I knew;
Their names are What and Why and When
And How and Where and Who.
~Rudyard Kipling

Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton asked why. ~Bernard Baruch

The cure for boredom is curiosity.
There is no cure for curiosity. ~Dorothy Parker

I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious. ~Albert Einstein

Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.–Marie Curie

The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything except what is worth knowing.–Oscar Wilde

When curiosity turns to serious matters, it’s called research.