The connection between color blindness and leprosy I found and blogged about several days ago was so bizarre I had to investigate. The only reference to clinical research I could find on the subject was this page from PubMed: Indian J Lepr. 1992 Oct-Dec;64(4):483-6. Prevalence of colour blindness among patients with leprosy. Shwe T. Clinical Research Unit (Malaria), Department of Medical Research,...

If you own or design websites, you should consider including a copyright notice, disclaimer, terms of use statement, privacy policy and a cookies policy. These don’t have to be separate pages but can often be combined. For example, it is common to combine a disclaimer with the terms of use. The copyright notice A copyright notice is a declaration of ownership which is intended to assist with...

Models for simulating the severe forms of color blindness are well developed. Not so for the milder and much more common types of colorblindness, the so-called anomalous deficiencies. These are tougher to model because they vary on an individual basis and can actually change over time. This is a far more common condition than any type of complete color blindness. Most of these resources focus on modeling...

The WebSite of the future is already here. WebSites are like clothes. Consumers and web designers need to realize that. I don’t know about you, but I don’t get my clothes from a tailor. Tailor made clothes are for rich people. I buy my clothes off the rack. I don’t have a problem with that, either. It’s easy, I have a choice of prices, they’re easy to maintain (I can’t...

What Is It? The most important document a freelance web designer or web developer has to create is a contract with their client. The contract is the written mutual agreement between you and your client stating what you will deliver, terms of your payment and what happens if things go awry. In part, it consists of all the items that were discussed beforehand. These items may have been mentioned in...

As I said previously, There are a couple of ways to go when you go with web hosting.  The true do-it-yourselfer might want to think about installing you’re own web server and hosting your website yourself.  However, most of you will take a more orthodox end-user route and host your website with somebody else. You can find companies that will host your site for free. Traditionally, the primary...

Part II in a series of Step-By-Step Instructions for the web do-it-yourselfer . There are a couple of ways to go when you go with web hosting. The true web do-it-yourselfer should think about installing you’re own web server and hosting your website yourself. The fact of the matter is hosting a site is easier than creating one. It is also easier than dealing with a hosting company, in my opinion....

Twitter is popular and gaining popularity every day. The number of users is in the millions. But, is it useful? That’s like asking if a knife is dangerous. The answer is, “Well, it can be.” If you want huge numbers of followers, you’re on your own. That is not my goal. For me, Twitter is a great source for news and ideas. SEO gurus, marketing wizards and prostitutes just clog-up the stream...