LED’s in Bed. From Panther Vision, the folks who make dozens of LED devices comes the Clip On LED Reading Light. It’s designed so it can clip onto almost any pair of glasses. Great to use on prescription glasses. Contains 2 small super bright LED’s that let you read at night without holding anything or disturbing your bed mate. Or use this handy device while doing chores in the dark or for when the lights go out. About $20. www.panthervision.com

Panther Vision CAP Lights. Brand new version shipping in July. Now the on/off is built in the brim so you don’t have to reach to the back of the hat to use it. And the battery compartment is hidden inside the lining. Lightweight and Comfortable with Adjustable Strap That Fits Most. 6 Panel Low Profile with 2 Advanced Ultra Bright White LED’s in the Bill of the Hat. Hats include 2 CR-2032 Coin Cell Batteries $20. www.panthervision.com

L.E.D. DropLite – This tiny LED is water resistant and can be clipped on just about anything: backpacks, sneakers, zippers, etc. Can be set for Flash or Glow with a push-button. Long life replaceable batteries, included. About $8.00. www.niteize.com

Magic Marker / Stick on Marker Here are two easy ways to be seen and be safe. It’s a Red L.E.D with Flash or Glow Illumination. One has a Hook & Loop fastener so it goes anywhere. Shock & Weather resistant and is visible over 1 mile in the dark. 100,000 hour LED. life is perfect replacement for chemical light sticks. Stick-On Marker is similar except it’s all set to be placed on crash helmets, bike fenders, etc. $12.99 each – either Magic Marker or Stick on Marker www.niteize.com

LED Nylon Dog Collar. You and your dog will be seen when you use either one of these LED gizmos. Or use both and be seen twice as bright! Weather resistant with an enclosed switch. Visible up to 1000 feet in the dark. Available in Red and Orange webbing. $14.99. www.niteize.com

Matching LED Light-Up Dog Leash - $14.99 Both Leash & collar: www.niteize.com (We can put the leash on one of FUNFRIENDS animals. Totally out of scale, but will look funny.)

L.E.D. Safety Vest; Run, jog, hike, bike, motorbike and be sure to be seen! This LED Safety Vest is made of fashion friendly black mesh design. There are two LED illuminated stripes which are flexible, lightweight and shock resistant. And for extra safety they also use 3M Scotchlite reflective material. 150 hour battery life. $20.99. www.niteize.com

Susie Gardner approaches Web design as a balancing act – finding the right proportions between content, design, and functionality. In Web design, you can’t just be concerned with how things look. A successful Web designer also has to be concerned with presenting the content people are visiting the site to get, and making sure the way they reach that content makes sense and is easy to use. It’s a holistic outlook – a good web designer has to have an understanding of code, audience goals, needs, and expectations, user interface, browser statistics – and a good eye for presenting all of this packaged nicely!

In today’s show Susie review Cowboys in Cyberspace (http://www.shownet.com.au/cowboys/)

Her suggestions include:
• Buy a domain of your own
• Make sure you identify Cowboys on Cyberspace on every page – don’t assume people always get to an inside page from the home page
• Put your content into a content management system or blogging software so that you can do more exciting things with featuring content on the home page
• Try to use more descriptive file names and complete titles
• Shorten up the home page, get more out front from your freshest content, give people easy access to popular past columns or timely subjects
• Come up with a navigation scheme and put it on all pages, near the top
• Consider the readability of your pages – wide text columns are hard to read, and columns of text in a newspaper format don’t work on the web. Don’t justify text! Also, all caps are pretty much a no-no.
• Get search near the top of the page

RELATED WEBSITE LINKS
Some of the resources I use to for Web design purposes are:
http://www.sitepoint.com/
Articles and technical information for people working in Web design and development

Colorblind Web Page Filter
http://vischeck.com/vischeck/vischeckURL.php
View your site the way a colorblind person would see it.

Browsershots.org
http://browsershots.org/
Submit your site and get screenshots of how it looks in other browsers.

Statcounter
http://www.statcounter.com
Drop code into your Web pages and get all kinds of statistics back, including what browser, monitor size, and resolution your Web site visitors are using.

W3 Browser Statistics
http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp
Keep tabs on the most dominant browser each month.

Accessing a Website in a foreign country w/ a Proxy Server (aka feeding my curling habit)
IF you want to access sites that are restricted by ip addy location… this could be for noble reasons -say avoiding censorship
or not so noble reasons -i like curling. The way around it is to configure your browser to use a proxy server
inside the acceptable country/ip range.