I have held back for far too long in my self-learning of web design. Whilst I established my ability at coding HTML and CSS as early as 2002, I've not spent a lot of time since then expanding my knowledge. But now that I want to re-design my website to bring into the latest arena,... Continue Reading →
Revamp, Redesign, Redirection
Have you noticed that I have added a new category into my articles? Yes, logo design, graphic creation and small-business branding will now be featured within my journal. Why? Most recently a new friend ask me to assist with revamping the logo for a small-business with which he is involved. He said he believed I... Continue Reading →
Sidebar On, Sidebar Off
Found the Cuban Council quite by accident tonight. After resizing the screen to see how the layers moved, I had to check under the bonnet. Hey, it's how we learn. Like you've never checked under the bonnet of a Ferrari! Anyhow, I found this freaky piece of code that I really like. <a href="index.php?notes=off" class="sml"... Continue Reading →
Connecting Artery’s in HTML
I learn something new and exciting every day! I've used this attribute before, but I never realised how effective and important it can be the workings of a URL-laden website. Any attribute selector that uses the operator ^= selects elements based on the beginning of their attribute values. Thus we can select any href that... Continue Reading →
Three Books to Help Build A Better Internet
You know you’ve taken leave of absence of your senses when you let a teenage son designs a "basic" web page for your business! But the real insult is when they figure they can whip one up in five seconds! People, here this now: "Designing a website is not a five-second thing." Getting someone’s teenage... Continue Reading →
The Internet is About Listening with Both Eyes Open
Despite having seventeen other entrepreneurial and web-activity articles in differing stages of completion, I decided to go with this one. Thanks to an interesting comment that talks of their regard for viewers potential color-blindness and the shades of green I am using at my personal site, I have learnt some amazing facts tonight: 1. Beer... Continue Reading →
Changing the WWW, One Bad Link at a Time
Some things on the internet are extremely difficult to believe if they are real or not. OK, ok, 99% of the internet is unbelievable. Even the stuff that says "Yeah, this is real" invariably isn’t. This is yet another of those occasions - but I am prepared to eat humble pie if this proves to... Continue Reading →
Use Convenient Naming in HTML
Jonathan Snook has written a great post that I have commented as a "succint statement of validation" regarding the over/use of DIV’s in a web site. Like many coders who layout their plans on paper first, I carefully decide what the DIVs will be entitled for the remainder of their lifetime online. Some have standard... Continue Reading →
Coding to Validate to Code
According to the new CSS-validator over at w3.org, my CSS on my site validate. Some might say "So what?" What they and you don’t realise: I do not use any special software to write my HTML (eg: Dreamweaver, Frontpage, etc) nor my CSS (eg: Topstyle, Stylemaster, MacRabbit, etc). I taught myself from reading and learning... Continue Reading →
I Was Offered Webmaster for Apex SA/NT!
Here is my latest web site design. [Update: Deleted in 20010] The client is the State Board of Apex SA/NT : I am the webmaster1. I was asked if I'd like to take on the challenge of bringing their website into the current century. I reckon it took about three minutes to decide how I... Continue Reading →
Giving Praise Where It’s Deserved!
Three brilliant quotes from the mouth(/fingers?) of Christian Montoya: "I can put this technique to good use because I am a great CSS developer and I am creative. These are not popular skills but they are useful. If you put me on a team with a decent graphic designer we would do pretty well." and... Continue Reading →
Validate Your Code in 3 Easy Steps
The mark-up validator has been updated. This is good news for all of us in the ongoing pursuit to ensure our code validates. The new Mark-Up validator allowed me to validate an URL or a file-upload, plus has a ‘direct-input’ field where text can be copied-and-pasted too. These are certainly going to beneficial. Yes, the... Continue Reading →
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