These are some preparation notes for a panel discussion with the NZ Industry Training Federation – ITOs Marketing and Communications Network. We were asked to respond to three questions:

1. My website is a dog’s breakfast, my boss wants it fixed, what do I need to do/think about mys elf before I contact a company?
2. What are the most common mistakes you see being made on organisation’s website?
3. How do you measure value for money on your website?

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Jehiah Czebotar has come up with some good solutions for styling input button widths in MSIE
http://jehiah.com/archive/button-width-in-ie

And for buttons in tables there’s this:
http://jehiah.com/archive/button-width-in-ie-revised

Every now and then I get an email with a winmail.dat attachment. Being a Mozilla Thunderbird user I haven’t been able to do anything with them. Trying to explain to the MS Outlook user who sent the email that I can’t deal with it until they change their settings has always been tedious.

I found this article on Dealing with the horror of Winmail.dat to be a really helpful guide on how to integrate Fentun with Thunderbird. The author reckons it works fine in WinMe and WinXP. There is a Linux version of Fentun so it may well work for that too.