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|  welcome to diversity by design
It is in the diversity of life that one finds its strength and beauty. We delight in the many variations and creative expressions that working with clients bring to our lives.
Our goal is to assist you in the design of a highly functional and relevant web presence. This interactive, expandable, independently manageable enterprise will further assist your organization in expressing its unique goals and the fulfillment of its purpose.
Having worked on the web since its inception, we carry with us a full bag of skills, contacts and experience. Working with the open source community allows us to follow our belief; that with many diverse minds working toward a common goal, together we can design solutions that best meet our clients needs.
Please take your time and peruse our Web site. Contained within are examples of some of the potential modalities and programs available for your use. Do feel free to contact us with your questions or comments.
We look forward to working with you in expanding your vision.
Our site is based upon a Content Management System called PostNuke, yet maintains easy URL’s, and it’s own individual style and layout. We chose this CMS for our site to share the many available Open Source modules that are available for your site as well.
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Prajnaji Sound Collective
Posted by: ri on Monday, September 25, 2006 - 09:30 PM |  We just finished up the launch of the Prajnaji Sound Collective www.prajnaji.com
A fun fractal filled site, exploring in design the feeling behind the music.
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First impressions count for web
Posted by: ri on Monday, January 16, 2006 - 03:30 PM | | Internet users make up their minds about the quality of a website in the blink of an eye, a study shows.
Researchers found that the brain makes decisions in just a twentieth of a second of viewing a webpage.
They were surprised as they believed it would take at least 10 times longer to form an opinion.
The study, published in the journal Behaviour and Information Technology, also suggests that first impressions have a lasting impact.
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Microsoft ruling may portend order for breakup
Posted by: ri on Friday, December 23, 2005 - 11:36 AM |  PARIS In a case of unprecedented brinkmanship in a European Union antitrust battle, regulators have threatened to impose millions of euros in daily fines on Microsoft for defying orders designed to give consumers and businesses broader choice in the market for software that runs office computer networks.
The decision, announced Thursday, was made by the EU antitrust chief, Neelie Kroes, and is a first since new powers introduced last year. It is focused on whether Microsoft is complying with a March 2004 order about powerful server computers.
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Redesigned Oceana Website Launched!
Posted by: ri on Thursday, November 03, 2005 - 11:30 AM | Your webgeeks at Diversity by Design just finished up a complete redesign of the Oceana Natural Foods Website. New features include a monthly circular addition, new graphic design, and a news system for sharing Oceana events with the community.
www.oceanafoods.org
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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer Vowed to "KILL" Google
Posted by: ri on Friday, September 02, 2005 - 11:10 PM | Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer vowed to "kill" Google in an expletitive-laced, chair-throwing tirade when a senior engineer told him he was leaving the company to go work for Google, the engineer claimed in court documents made public on Friday.
In a sworn statement made public Friday, Mark Lucovsky, another Microsoft senior engineer who left for Google in November 2004, recounted Ballmer's angry reaction when Lucovsky told Ballmer he was going to work for the search engine company.
Note: Can you trust a company with a CEO that acts like this?
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Massachusetts mandates open-format docs, edges toward Linux
Posted by: ri on Friday, September 02, 2005 - 06:30 PM | The state of Massachusetts will revamp its digital output during the next 16 months to create only open-format documents and is increasing its use of Linux and free and open source software (FOSS) among its workers, the state's chief information officer told DesktopLinux.com Thursday in a conference call.
CIO Peter Quinn challenged Microsoft and other companies who sell software that uses proprietary document formats to consider enabling open-format options as soon as possible. Quinn said that "government is creating history at a rapidly increasing rate, and all documents we save must be accessible to everybody, without having to use 'closed' software to open them now and in the future."
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Apple making big inroads in business with OS X
Posted by: ri on Friday, July 22, 2005 - 08:57 AM | Apple Computer’s UNIX-based Mac OS X operating system is making inroads in the business community, according to a report by market research firm Jupiter Research. The report tracks desktop and server operating systems in medium to large sized business.
The report found that in businesses with 250 employees or more, 17 percent of the employees were running Mac OS X on their desktop computer at work. In Businesses that had 10,000 or more employees, 21 percent of employees used Mac OS X on their desktop work computer.
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Feds to fight the zombies
Posted by: ri on Tuesday, July 19, 2005 - 11:39 PM | Remote-controlled "zombie" networks operated by bottom-feeding spammers have become a serious problem that requires more industry action, the Federal Trade Commission is expected to announce on Tuesday.
The FTC and more than 30 of its counterparts abroad are planning to contact Internet service providers and urge them to pay more attention to what their customers are doing online. Among the requests: identifying customers with suspicious e-mailing patterns, quarantining those computers and offering help in cleaning the zombie code off the hapless PCs.
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Microsoft Plays Russian Roulette with Longhorn
Posted by: ri on Sunday, June 26, 2005 - 04:50 PM | With a bullet in every chamber.
Every time I hear another announcement on what Longhorn will implement or what new tricks it will learn to perform, I have the feeling that I’m watching a show where the magician pulls rabbits out of a hat.
Microsoft’s strategy of releasing bits of information on Longhorn is understandable considering that December 2006 is far away and that hardware producers, software developers and users must be kept alert.
Note: Looks like one more reason to be running Linux or Macintosh!
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South Africans reject $50k system for PostNuke
Posted by: ri on Monday, February 21, 2005 - 11:27 PM | The South Australian Democrats has rejected a $50,000 content management system from an unnamed vendor for its new Web site in favour of the free PostNuke open source system.
Legislative Council member Ian Gilfillan said he expressed shock and horror when he was told of the $50,000 price tag.
I immediately said we dont go down that path, Gilfillan told Computerworld. The selection process then seemed to happen quickly and we are very happy with the quality of the package.
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