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The Greatest Website Features Other People Will Never See

I t has always been the case in the web industry that some people know just enough to be dangerous. When I first got into website development, it was moving gif images and frames, not to mention flashing text. People would find this cool thing that they could do and overload their websites with it. Later, it was music in the background. Today it is more subtle, but we still have people putting the latest and greatest stuff out there without consideration of what it does to people who are trying to use their sites. These days, computer security is a big deal, so firewalls are a way of life. Companies want their employees to have access to websites for the information they provide, but they use firewalls to protect their networks. You may be using a firewall on your home computer. These firewalls can wreak havoc on blogs that use features other than the most basic of features. Steve Laube’s blog appears to be simple, but there is something about it that prevents me from leaving comment...