Category: WWW things

I’ve really been getting a kick out of Google’s recent recruiting ads, such as their GLAT booklet and their big question billboards. The most recent ad is one that I saw in the latest issue of Physics Today.

It’s a big full page ad titled “How to Care for Your Big, Wonderful High-Performance Brain”. It looks like one of those full-page ads for weight loss or hair growing products, or maybe an old fashioned PSA ad, or even one of those big anatomical charts you might see in your doctor’s office but way more amusing.

There are sections titled “Big Brains Crave Algae and Acid”, “Lead is Big-Brain Kryptonite”, “Get Your Nap On” to name a few. I think they’re actually pretty clever and creative.

This Flash cartoon was sent to me by my wife. I thought it was pretty funny.

Fatkins diet

Warning: Language is not appropriate for young or sensitive ears.

Here’s an interesting looking resource for physics type geeks.

Physics Forums. Kind of like the sci.physics newsgroups but probably with a higher SNR and a pretty wide range of topics. Haven’t spent too much time browsing it yet, but it looks interesting. Need to spend some more time checking it out.

Don’t see anything in my field though. Maybe it’s not so great after all… 🙂

So today I ended up spending pretty much the entire day taking our department website and stuffing it into a web CMS (Content Management System), specifically phpWebSite.

The existing site is a series of individual webpages I created using DreamWeaver MX (6.1) and a custom template. I think it looks pretty good. DW templates make maintainng the look and feel of a website much easier. Using a CMS makes it even easier.

The whole process went pretty smoothly. Looks reasonably good too. Now I just have to figure out how to create custom themes for phpWebSite. I already have our intradepartment website running on phpWebSite, and I figured using it for the public site would make it easier on me to update and maintain.

The downside of it is that my dynamically generated pages won’t work inside the CMS. I’ll have to find a workaround for that.

Haven’t released it yet since I’m still playing, testing and tweaking. I hope to have it all ready soon.

Hmm, just noticed that my weblog looks like crap under Netscape 7. It’s mostly ok in IE 6. Looks just fine in Mozilla/Firefox. I must have style sheet and DIV issues. Wish someone would tell me these things.