Essays about the World-Wide-Web (WWW)
The Articles
Create a Great Personal Homesite
Why and how to create a great personal homesite.
Revision 2
Revision 2, published in 2009, with many updates, and corrections:
It’s amazing how much has changed since I’ve published this article a few years ago. The most important trend was probably that personal blogs seem to have become much more prevalent than personal web-sites up to the point that some people referred to www.shlomifish.org as a blog. I have been annoyed at this to some extent, and even wrote an entire essay about the distinction between a home page and a blog and why this homepage is not a blog.
Nevertheless, as an active blogger, it’s not that I hate blogs or try to underrate them - it’s just that I think that I invest more effort and rigour in writing articles or essays on my home page, than I do on the various random stuff I post to my blogs. (Or to other similar public channels, such as mailing lists, web forums, comments on other people’s blogs, etc.). I also feel that it is easier to find posts on my personal web-site than on most people’s blogs.
Which Open Source Wiki Works for You?
An overview of some popular open-source wiki engines.
Choice of Document Formats
About the choice of various document formats available today for publishing on the web.
The “Use qmail instead” syndrome
Someone has a problem with technology A and other people tell him to use technology B instead. Please don’t do that.
Homepage vs. Blog
About the difference between a homepage and a blog and why this site is a homepage.
Reflections on Online Communities
Do’s and Don’t’s for online communities - how to structure them and grow a community.
“Alternative” Models for Web-Based Commerce
A list of some models for online content-creation commerce that do no involve intrusive advertising.
Validate Your HTML Markup
To educate the world about the benefits of making sure their markup of HTML and other web and non-web languages is valid according to the web standards.