R. Stewart Ellis

Help stamp out bad web design!

  • Jakob Nielsen's web design webpage
  • The Nielsen Norman Group
  • The Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) at the WWW Consortium
  • Tidy up M$ and other's atrocious HTML to readable form

    • PowerPoint: Just say no!

  • PowerPoint Presentations: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
  • Edward Tufte's Assessment of the Contribution of PP to the Columbia Disaster
  • Lou Gerstner, taking over IBM in 1984 after it had nearly collapsed, banned presentation aids except for one slide in only one color
  • Read Tufte's quote from Gerstner's book, down the page
  • Another link quoting Tufte quoting Gerstner (orphan page with several dead links)
  • Lou Gerstner would spin in his grave (if he were dead)(see pp.28-30 of 31! page PPT)
  • Executive presents PowerPoint eulogy at mother's funeral(this may be a spoof)

    • Some Diversions

  • Tired of Billy Bass? Make him say what you want him to!

  • And now for your listening pleasure, the Spongmonkeys singing We Like the Moon!

  • Don't forget to observe International Talk Like a Pirate Day

    • Some Car Stuff

  • If Microsoft Built a Car
  • Beck 550 Spyder
  • New, improved, 356 Speedster and Cabriolet

    • Healthcare Reform Links

    My Courses

  • SSCI201 - Introduction to Social Science
  • SOC336 - Sociology of the Family
  • SOC337 - Sociology of Religion

    • SPAM

    SPAM is the scourge of the Internet. Constant vigilance and complaints to the providers probably do not even make a dent, but I am too mean and stubborn to give up. Here are some of the email messages I have received indicating small victories against SPAMers:
  • SPAM-fighting Successes

    • The Rest of the Page

    This rest of this page is for trying things out and showing some of the things that are available for personal homepage authors at GMI.

    Some Java bits:

    A text file

    The same file as above, linked as an html file.

    A directory

    Stay Tuned!

    Fooling Around and Various Demos

    Here are some buttons to play with:

    R. Stewart Ellis