http://www.yakjive.com/ YakJive.com offers a site for free internet newspaper, website, and blog creation. en-us Sat, 06 Sep 2008 04:26:01 MST chris@yakjive.com chris@yakjive.com Copyright (c) 2007 www.yakjive.com. All rights reserved. http://www.yakjive.com/Chris-blog1-07.html#74 I'll be really interested to see if any new users take advantage of the site setup wizard. If a user approaches YakJive wanting to write about someting... it shouldn't get much easier to set up a site and get going. Now on to make more cool styles!... Sun, 28 Jan 2007 23:09:00 MST http://www.yakjive.com/Chris-blog1-07.html#74 US Chris-blog http://www.yakjive.com/Chris-blog12-06.html#67 I love the new features on the site. The abilities to click on the public website to add an article and to password-restrict pages greatly expands the use of YakJive. If anyone tests them out and has any problems, let us know. We're trying to make sure that the new features are well integrated with our security model, but there are sure to be some permutations that escaped us.... Fri, 01 Dec 2006 15:54:00 MST http://www.yakjive.com/Chris-blog12-06.html#67 US Chris-blog http://www.yakjive.com/Chris-blog11-06.html#61 I rolled in some changes today so that most images and links should have ALT and TITLE text. Also, text-only browser users will notice that every YakJive site now has "skip to" links at the top of each page. If anyone has any further suggestions for us, please let us know. Unfortunately, much of the admin site is still not completely text-only browser friendly. We'll be working on that as soon as we can. We are also still working on making the restricted entry part of YakJive site... Wed, 15 Nov 2006 14:51:00 MST http://www.yakjive.com/Chris-blog11-06.html#61 US Chris-blog http://www.yakjive.com/Chris-blog11-06.html#60 I attended a talk today on making websites more accessible. I've been interested in this topic for a while, not only because I want to help disabled users use YakJive websites, but also because many of the tips and tricks for making websites accessible are also good for search engine optimization. After the talk, I downloaded the Lynx browser and looked at the YakJive homepage and some of the YakJive sample sites. I'm happy to say that the generated YakJive sites are not too bad on Ly... Thu, 09 Nov 2006 20:54:00 MST http://www.yakjive.com/Chris-blog11-06.html#60 US Chris-blog http://www.yakjive.com/Chris-blog9-06.html#55 For those checking us out for the first time, it's important to understand that this is a homegrown, amateur attempt at a new type of blogging service. Does that mean that everything here is amateurish? No. Indeed, we hope that you'll find that because of our experience and backgrounds, that some of it is quite advanced. On the other hand, what it does mean is that we can use all the feedback we can get to make this site a great tool to use to publish your content to the web. Do you h... Sat, 09 Sep 2006 22:36:00 MST http://www.yakjive.com/Chris-blog9-06.html#55 US Chris-blog http://www.yakjive.com/Chris-blog6-06.html#37 Have you ever had a project in mind for years?In your mind, you mightslowly build up requirements, features, and uses for the hobby, tool, or service that you would like to use yourself or share with others? Well, welcome to YakJive.com, the culmination of one such project that I have mulled over literally since I began copy-and-pasting technical tips and tidbits into text files for my later use. I'ma techie. Sort of. I'm one of those techno-phobe techies who really just wants to get ... Wed, 21 Jun 2006 23:53:00 MST http://www.yakjive.com/Chris-blog6-06.html#37 US Chris-blog http://www.yakjive.com/Chris-blog6-06.html#39 There are many promotional tools out there to get your blog noticed. One I found is called blog announce and may or may not be worth the trouble, but just takes a simple bit of info to get signed up. Here's a link: ... Tue, 20 Jun 2006 14:20:00 MST http://www.yakjive.com/Chris-blog6-06.html#39 US Chris-blog http://www.yakjive.com/Chris-blog6-06.html#40 I've never gotten really big results from search engine submission services, but it can't hurt to use one of the free ones. There's AddMe.com and many others. I recently tried this one through my hosting service: 100 Keywords - Free Search Engine Submission... Sun, 18 Jun 2006 14:59:00 MST http://www.yakjive.com/Chris-blog6-06.html#40 US Chris-blog