There's a few good stories over at A List Apart. One is Where Have All The Designers Gone, the other, How to be Soopa Famous.

The former is an interesting article about the increasing concern that web designers are becoming sick of "web design", and thus are looking to other avenues such as more experimental sites. The outcome of this, as the column states, may be that the run of the mill sites (you know, the one's that actually make companies money) will end up being designed by "mediocre" web designers. It brings up some good points, but like most things (unfortunatly) if you just throw some money at it, the problem can be solved rather quickly.

The latter is simply a hilarious article poking fun at all those experimental designers who've given up on their "day job" and are now part of the "underground".

For those of you who have websites running Linux (or a variant) try running the Tail command. It's called like this:

tail -fn 50 /accesslogpath

Where "accesslogpath" is the path to your sites httpd access log file. This will show you the last 50 entries in your httpd log, and it updates whenever someone hits the site. It's interesting to watch people go through your site, and examine where they're going (assuming you don't get so many hits that it scrolls by too fast for you to read). Just today I was glancing at mine and I noticed someone trying to find an old page that I have since moved. It was interesting watching them try to "guess" the new path to where it is. Of course after about ten 404 errors, they gave up. Nothing like being the stealth admin.

version 6 progress:

*contact page and script done.
*about page written.
*RCM now fully secure.